Events
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Start: 10:00 am
Prompt Writing: Serious writing begins with playful writing. Please join this unique ongoing group of supportive adult writers and play your way into the possibilities of the written word. Based on the work of Natalie Goldberg (WRITING DOWN THE BONES, WILD MIND) we set a timer for fifteen minutes and write using prompts as our launch pads. This class is free and open to the public.
Nancy Peacock’s first book LIFE WITHOUT WATER was published and chosen as a New York Times Notable Book. It was followed a few years later by another novel HOME ACROSS THE ROAD and most recently by a work of nonfiction, A BROOM OF ONE’S OWN: WORDS ON WRITING, HOUSECLEANING, AND LIFE. Nancy lives in Chatham County and runs writing workshops in her studio and this Prompt Writing class every second Saturday at Flyleaf Books.
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 8:30 pm
Grand Opening
Event
Daniel Wallace
& Nic Brown
Authors, Musicians, generally highly entertaining fellows
will kick off the Flyleaf Events Schedule in style with a dual reading of each
of their new novels. This will be the first time either author has read from
their new works, which are due to be published later in the year.
Daniel Wallace is
author of four novels, including Big Fish (1998), Ray in Reverse (2000), The
Watermelon King (2003) and most recently Mr. Sebastian and the Negro Magician
(2007). His work has been published in over two dozen languages, and his
stories, novels and non-fiction essays are taught in high schools and colleges
throughout this country. His illustrations have appeared in the Los Angeles
Times, Italian Vanity Fair, and many other magazines and books, including Pep
Talks, Warnings, and Screeds: Indispensible Wisdom and Cautionary Advice for
Writers, by George Singleton, and Adventures in Pen Land: One Writer's Journey
from Inklings to Ink, by Marianne Gingher. Big Fish was made into a motion picture of the
same name by Tim Burton in 2003, a film in which the author plays the part of a
professor at Auburn University. He is in fact the J. Ross MacDonald
Distinguished Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill, which is also his alma mater. Though born and raised in
Birmingham, Alabama, he has lived in Chapel Hill longer than he has lived
anywhere else, and he has no plans to leave.
Nic Brown’s first
book, Floodmarkers, was published in 2009 and was selected as an Editor's
Choice by The New York Times Book Review. His short stories have appeared in
the Harvard Review, Glimmer Train, and Epoch, among many other publications. A
graduate of Columbia University and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, he lives in
Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
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