Spring Meet the Authors Evening

Monday, April 8, 2019
7:00 – 8:30 PM  

Park Road Books
4139 Park Road (Park Road Shopping Center)
Charlotte, NC 28209

Save the date for our annual SPRING MEET THE AUTHORS EVENING featuring three outstanding authors.

Jacqui Castle, THE SECLUSION, Inkshares 
Mesha Maren, SUGAR RUN, Algonquin 
A SIBA Okra Pick
Snowden Wright, AMERICAN POP, William Morrow
A SIBA Okra Pick

Jacqui Castle is a local author and freelance writer living in the Blue Ridge Mountains near Asheville. Castle has been an active voice in the community for several years, having contributed to a variety of local publications, including Mountain Xpress, WNC Woman, Asheville Grit, and Explore Asheville. Castle is also an associate producer on Asheville FM 103.3 WordPlay Radio, which airs each Sunday at 3pm. Her dystopian science-fiction novel, The Seclusion, was named a Kirkus Reviews Best Sci-Fi Book of September 2018, and was called a “must-have for all libraries and fans of ¬sci-fi ” by School Library Journal.

Mesha Maren’s short stories and essays have appeared in Tin House, Oxford American, Hobart, The Barcelona Review, Forty Stories: New Writing from Harper Perennial and other literary journals. She was chosen by Lee Smith as winner of the 2015 Thomas Wolfe Fiction Prize and is the recipient of a 2014 Elizabeth George Foundation Grant, an Appalachian Writing Fellowship from Lincoln Memorial University, and residency fellowships from the MacDowell Colony and the Ucross Foundation. She is the 2018-2019 Kenan Visiting Writer at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and also serves as a National Endowment of the Arts Writing Fellow at the Beckley Federal Correctional Institution.

Born and raised in Mississippi, Snowden Wright has a B.A. from Dartmouth College and an M.F.A. from Columbia University. He has written for The Atlantic, Salon, Esquire, The Millions, and the New York Daily News, among other publications, and previously worked as a fiction reader for The New Yorker, Esquire, and The Paris Review. His small press debut, Play Pretty Blues, was the recipient of the 2012 Summer Literary Seminar’s Graywolf Prize. He currently lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

Our special guests will join us for an evening of conversation and refreshments. Each author will speak briefly about her or his book, and there will be plenty of opportunity for one-on-one questions and discussion. Park Road Books will sell books. Don’t miss this unique opportunity to meet these writers and get signed copies of their new books! Author details will be provided in early 2019.

WNBA members and friends, book clubs and reading groups,
and all avid readers are welcome!

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Download a copy of our Spring 2019 Meet the Authors flyer 032919 here.

Questions?  Please contact Susan Walker at susan.walker.books@gmail.com or 612-382-5868.

Spring Meet the Authors Evening   

Monday, April 9, 2018
7:00 – 8:30 PM    

Park Road Books  
4139 Park Road (Park Road Shopping Center)  
Charlotte, NC 28209   

Save the date for our annual SPRING MEET THE AUTHORS EVENING featuring five prominent authors. Our special guests will join us for an evening of conversation and refreshments. Each author will speak briefly about her or his book, and there will be plenty of opportunity for one-on-one questions and discussion. Park Road Books will sell books. Don’t miss this unique opportunity to meet these five writers and get signed copies of their new books!

WNBA members and friends, book clubs and reading groups,
and all avid readers are welcome!

Our outstanding guest authors include:

• Charlotte, North Carolina writer Kimmery Martin, THE QUEEN OF HEARTS, Berkley Publishing Group/Penguin Random House. Martin is also a physician.

• Alan Michael Parker, CHRISTMAS IN JULY, Dzanc Books. Parker is the Douglas C. Houchens Professor of English at Davidson College.

• Mark Powell, SMALL TREASONS, Gallery Books/Simon & Schuster. Powell teaches at Appalachian State University in Boone.

• Lauren Rebecca Sklaroff, RED HOT MAMA: THE LIFE OF SOPHIE TUCKER, University of Texas Press. Sklaroff is an associate professor of history at the University of South Carolina.

• Michele Young-Stone, LOST IN THE BEEHIVE, Simon & Schuster. Novelist Stone lives on the Outer Banks.

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Download a copy of our event flyer here.

Questions?  Please contact Susan Walker at susan.walker.books@gmail.com or 612-382-5868.