Join us for Writers Read Dinner & Author Series 2012-13
Writers Read, sponsored by the language and literature department, is a special dinner event featuring authors who read from and comment on their work. Writers Read evenings begin at 5:30 p.m. in Martin Chapel (in the seminary building).
September 20, 2012 … Casey Clabough
Dr. Clabough is author of the creative nonfiction book The Warrior’s Path: Reflections Along an Ancient Route (University of Tennessee Press, 2007). He holds a Ph. D. in English from the University of North Carolina and is Associate Professor of English and English Graduate Coordinator at Lynchburg College in Virginia. Dr. Claubough also serves as literature editor for the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities’ Encyclopedia Virginia. The author of scholarly books on James Dickey and Fred Chappell, his work has appeared in Callaloo, Contemporary Literature, Shenandoah, The Hollins Critic, The Sewanee Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. His book, Confederado: A Novel of the Americas is forthcoming (2012) from High Country Publishers.
November 1, 2012 … Joy Jordan-Lake
Dr. Jordan-Lake’s first novel, Blue Hole Back Home: A Novel http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=joyjorlak-20&l=as2&o=1&a=143479993X (David C. Cook, 2008), won the 2009 national Christy Award for first novel and was selected as the 2009 Common Book for Baylor University. Blue Hole Back Home is increasingly being chosen as classroom and summer reading at various public and private high schools, middle schools, colleges and universities. Dr. Jordan-Lake has also authored Grit and Grace: Portraits of a Woman’s Life (Wheaton Library Series, 2000), Whitewashing Uncle Tom’s Cabin: Nineteenth-Century Women Novelists Respond to Stowe (Vanderbilt University Press, 2005), and Why Jesus Makes Me Nervous: Ten Alarming Words of Faith (Paraclete Press, 2007). She holds a Ph.D. in English Literature from Tufts University and currently teaches part time at Belmont University in Tennessee.
January 31, 2013 … Katie Fallon
Fallon is author of the nonfiction book Cerulean Blues: A Personal Search for a Vanishing Songbird (Ruka Press, 2011). Cerulean Blues was recently named a finalist for the Southern Environmental Law Center’s Reed Award for Outstanding Writing on the Southern Environment, and her essay “Hill of the Sacred Eagles” was selected as a finalist in _Terrain_’s 2011 essay contest. Fallon’s nonfiction has appeared in a variety of other magazines and literary journals, including The Bark, Fourth Genre, Ecotone, River Teeth, Isotope, Fourth River, Appalachian Heritage, Now & Then, Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel, Rivendell, The New River Gorge Adventure Guide, and elsewhere. She has taught creative writing at Virginia Tech and West Virginia University.
March 14, 2013 … Saloma Miller Furlong
Furlong grew up in an Amish community in Ohio. Driven by her desire for freedom and more formal education, she broke away from her community — not once, but twice. Furlong graduated from Smith College with a major in German Studies and a minor in Philosophy. Her education included research on the Amish with Dr. Donald Kraybill and a semester abroad in Germany, where she studied at the University of Hamburg and participated in children’s literature classes in which she wrote a children’s book in German. Furlong writes a blog, About Amish, has published a memoir titled Why I Left the Amish, and has published short stories and essays, including in Calyx; A Journal of Art and Literature by Women (1997) and in Vermont Voices III: An Anthology of Vermont Writers (1999). She is currently co-writing, with her husband, David, a sequal to her memoir titled The Amish Daughter and the Yankee Peddler.
Tickets and reservations
Beginning on August 1, you may reserve tickets online or by calling the language & literature department at (540) 432-4168.