The Ort Library hosted Nightsun Writer’s Conference and Reception Friday evening July 24.
Karen McElmurray, is
greeted by Tim Wendel, writer-in-residence at Johns Hopkins University (left) and Gerry LaFemina, Director of Frostburg Center for Creative
Writing (right). McElmurray read portions from her work that focused on the
writer’s voice including a selection from Surrendered
Child: A Birth Mother’s Journey.
Award-winning horror author Michael Arnzen, who is also a tenured
professor at Seton Hill University, read both prose and poetry selections during
the evening. His newsletter http://www.gorelets.com
contains the poem Zombifurcation that he chose for one reading.
The Ort Library owns two of his fiction works: Grave
Markings and Play
Dead.
Poet Allison Joseph and non-fiction writer Tim Wendel
attended the reception and read at the FSU’s Center for Creative Writing Conference
the previous evening. Collections of Joseph’s poems, My
Father’s Kites, Voice:
Poems, Soul
Train and In
Every Seam and a copy of Wendel’s nonfiction book Castro’s
Curveball are available at the Ort Library.
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