[Durham INC] Washington Street Writers Celebrate 20th Anniversary at Durham County Library

Wed Aug 15 21:00:43 EDT 2012

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Date: August 15, 2012                                                                                             CONTACT: Gina Rozier
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                             919-560-0151 or grozier at durhamcountync.gov<mailto:grozier at durhamcountync.gov>

Washington Street Writers Celebrate 20th Anniversary
at Durham County Library

Program:             Washington Street Writers 20th Anniversary Party
Date:                     Sunday, August 26
Time:                    3 p.m.
Location:             Southwest Regional Library
                                3605 Shannon Rd.
Cost:                      Free and open to the public

About:  Durham County Library hosts the 20th anniversary celebration of the Washington Street Writers group, on Sunday, August 26, at 3 p.m. at the Southwest Regional Library, 3605 Shannon Rd. Having met monthly for 20 years, group members will share their secrets of forming a successful writing group. Book signings will follow the celebration.

The Washington Street Writers have maintained a successful writing group for two decades. Over time, many have become accomplished and published writers, and during this anniversary event, members will demonstrate during a mini workshop how they have critiqued and evaluated each others' craft over the years. Members Beverly Fields Burnette, Sally Ann Drucker, Jan Hilton, Richard Krawiec, Bruce Lader, Lenard D. Moore and Randy W. Pait will share some of their prose.

This program is made possible by funding from Durham Library Foundation. For more information, contact Joanne Abel at 919-560-0268.

Durham County Library provides the entire community with books, services and other resources that inform, inspire learning, cultivate understanding and excite the imagination. As a department of Durham County Government, the library furthers Goal 1 of the county's Strategic Plan by enhancing cultural, educational and creative opportunities. For more information about the library, visit us online at durhamcountylibrary.org<http://durhamcountylibrary.org>.

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Writer Bios:  Rocky Mount native Beverly Fields Burnette is a storyteller, poet and retired school social worker from Wake County Public Schools. She has been widely published in several national and state anthologies, and her work has been featured on the National Public Radio/PRI program "A Season's Griot." Burnette is also renowned for telling folktales in the guise of Harlem Renaissance folklorist and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston. She currently serves as President of the NC Association of Black Storytellers.

Sally Ann Drucker publishes poetry and fiction in literary journals but is also known for character recreations of famous women at Chautauquas and elsewhere. To present the personas of Frances Wright, Emma Goldman, Rosie the Riveter, Lucrezia Borgia and Betty Friedan, Drucker writes scripts, does 30-minute monologues and answers questions in character. She received her PhD from SUNY-Buffalo and currently is an associate professor in Nassau Community College's Department of English. Her other publications include literary criticism, technical articles and book reviews.

Jan Zaleski Hilton received an MA in writing at The Poetry Center, San Francisco State University. She has a chapbook forthcoming from Finishing Line Press, a poem in Solo Café, and in the anthology, Love, Yes. Hilton won first place in the James Larkin Pearson Contest for free verse and her work has also appeared in many journals, including Poetry Northwest, the Berkeley Samisdat, Iodine Poetry Journal and Bastard Angel. She has taught courses at universities and community colleges, as well as in basic skills and writing to prison inmates.

Richard Krawiec is the 2009 Winner of the "Excellence in Teaching Award" from UNC-Chapel Hill's Friday Center, for beginning and intermediate courses in fiction writing which he designed and teaches. His first novel, Time Sharing, was published by Viking Penguin. It was highly reviewed and featured in Publisher's Weekly "Recommended List," and the Village Voice "Real Life Rock Top Ten" column. He has sold multiple film options. Krawiec's second novel, Faith in What?, and short story collection, And Fools of God, were also reviewed by Publisher's Weekly, Kirkus and Library Journal. He is also editor of two anthologies.

Bruce Lader, a former New York City teacher, is a prolific writer. He has published poems in more than 100 international journals and anthologies, including Poetry, the New York Quarterly, the Humanist, CircleShow, International Poetry Review, Harpur Palate, New Millennium Writings, Margie, Poet Lore, Asheville Poetry Review and Against Agamemnon: War Poems anthology. His first full-length book, Discovering Mortality, was a finalist for the Brockman-Campbell Award. Winner of the 2010 Left Coast Eisteddfod Poetry Competition, Lader has received a writer-in-residence fellowship from The Wurlitzer Foundation.

Native North Carolinian Lenard D. Moore is an assistant professor of English at Mount Olive College. He is a writer of more than 20 forms of poetry, drama, essays and literary criticism, and has been writing and publishing haiku<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku_in_English> for over two decades. Moore was recently elected as the first African-American President of the Haiku Society of America and currently serves as executive chairman of the North Carolina Haiku Society. He founded the Carolina African-American Writers Collective, and was co-founder of Washington Street Writers Group.

Randy W. Pait's work may be found in several anthologies, including Solo Café 8 & 9, and the Iodine Poetry Journal. In 2010, Pait received the James Larking Pearson Prize for Free Verse, and his work has received an "Honorable Mention" distinction from the Poetry Council of North Carolina. He is also the author of I Am Thinking of Horses.

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