Four authors from the Written Remains Writers Guild will perform readings of original fiction at the New Castle Public Library, 424 Delaware Street, New Castle, DE 19720, on Saturday, November 5, 2011 from 1 - 3 p.m. A Meet the Authors Reception follows the reading. This event is free and open to the public.
The featured readers are:
Tery Aine Griffin is a 2010 recipient of an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Delaware Division of the Arts. Griffin, a Connecticut native, teaches at Wesley College in Dover. Her work has appeared in several literary magazines, including O. Henry Festival Stories, Men As We Are, and The Wittenberg Review, and has won many awards, including a Hopwood Major Award for Short Fiction from the University of Michigan. She will be reading a selection from her work-in-progress, a short story collection covering the life of a family from the 50s to the present.
Gail Husch teaches art history at Goucher College and has written about aspects of American art, including a book entitled Something Coming: Apocalyptic Expectation and Mid-Nineteenth-Century American Painting, published by the University Press of New England. In recent years, Dr. Husch has turned to fiction, completing The Button Field, a novel set in the late nineteenth century based on the real-life disappearance of a student from Mount Holyoke College. She will be reading from the novel she is currently working on also set in New England in the 1890s, this time dealing with the consequences of a mysterious appearance.
Persistent and always ready for a challenge, Cynthia Kuespert is completing her 6th rewrite of her second novel, Isaac’s Call. Cynthia was trained as a journalist (BA) and urbanologist (MA). In her positions as executive director of Christina Cultural Arts Center and director of development at Wilmington Friends School, she has ghost written for CEO’s, edited house organs, crafted hundreds of grant proposals and publicity releases. She recently retired as a fund raising consultant and is enjoying the challenge of attempting to master literary fiction writing. Cynthia will be reading a selection from Isaac’s Call.
JM Reinbold is an author, editor, workshop teacher, and free write leader. Her fiction, non-fiction and poetry have been published in anthologies, literary magazines and on-line. She served as editor for the anthology Stories from the Inkslingers, a collection of short fiction by Delaware authors.
In 2011, she received an honorable mention from the Delaware Division of the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship Awards for her novel Prince of the Piedmont. Her novella, Transfusions, was nominated for a Washington Science Fiction Association Small Press Award.
JM Reinbold is the Director of the Written Remains Writers Guild, editor of the WR Blog, moderator of both the WR Mixed Genre Critique Group and the WR Literary Critique Group, and a member of the Delaware Literary Connection, Sisters in Crime and Magical Realism Central. She will be reading a chapter from her novel, Ding Dong Bell, which explores the lives and fates of characters caught up in the investigation of a vicious murder in Southwest England.
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