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Written by Virginia Freedman
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Monday, 07 February 2011 10:44 |
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. . . to Suzy Barile, Wake Tech Community College instructor, whose essay titled "Richard Caswell Swain 1837-1872" is included in Shannon, Illinois: 150 Years -- 1860-2010, published for the Illinois town's sesquicentennial celebration. Swain was one of the first physicians in the then-frontier town of Shannon and Barile's great-great uncle. She also is the author of Undaunted Heart: The True Story of a Southern Belle & a Yankee General (Eno 2009).
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Hat's Off!
Marjorie Hudson’s book Accidental Birds of the Carolinas, published by Press 53, has been selected as the featured book in March for Crowd the Book, a new project to promote books from small presses that deserve wide readership. Crowd the Book is the brainchild of a group of MFA grads from the Naropa Institute in Colorado, and it invites writers and small publishers to participate. Read the author interview, in which Hudson talks about the many jobs she’s taken to support herself and her writing career, including making crepe paper flowers for the Florida float at Nixon’s second inaugural parade. |
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