Events

Prompt Writing with Nancy Peacock

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.Come early, grab a coffee at Foster's and get a good seat!

Nancy Peacock’s first book LIFE WITHOUT WATER was published and chosen as a New York Times 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.
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

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Saturday

03/13/10  2pm-3pm 
*Kids Event*  Ages 9-12

John Claude Bemis:
The Nine Pound Hammer: Book 1 of The
Clockwork Dark

In his debut middle grade adventure, former elementary
school teacher John Claude Bemis asks the question “What if the legendary John
Henry had a son?” THE NINE POUND HAMMER: Book 1 of the Clockwork Dark offers
young readers a fresh approach to epic fantasy, unearthing characters from
American folklore and sending them on a wild ride through the post–Civil War
South.  The misty magic of Appalachia
lends both the history and the mystery to the first book in this riveting
trilogy.   

In his debut novel, John Claude Bemis takes American tall
tales and reinvents them in a fresh and exciting manner. The Ramblers,
defenders of the natural world, must take up arms in the 1890s South against
their ancient foes: industry and machinery. This series harkens back to time
when man was one with the soil beneath his feet, a fascinating topic to tackle
in today’s environment of green awareness. While young readers will recognize
the timeliness of this subject, they will also be entertained by the medley of
sideshow performers—the fire-eater, the sword swallower, the strong man, and
the crocodile-riding queen of pirates!

John Claude Bemis grew up in rural North Carolina, where
he loved reading the Jack tales and African American trickster stories, as well
as fantasy and science fiction classics. A songwriter and musician in an
American roots band, John found inspiration for his fiction in old-time country
and blues music and the Southern folklore at its heart. John lives with his
family in Hillsborough, North Carolina, where he was an elementary school
teacher for 11 years before becoming a full-time writer.

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Sat  3/13 
4-5pm

Ages: Kindergarten
to adult

Passover Story
time featuring Tilda Balsley and her book Let
My People Go!

The Passover story will come alive when Let My People Go! author Tilda Balsley
is performed at this special story time. With clever rhyme and zany pictures, the
saga of the ten plagues is presented in a Readers' Theater format, sure to
enlighten and amuse readers young and old as the audience is encouraged to
participate. From the Burning Bush to the crossing of the Red Sea, the
imaginative retelling features parts for a Narrator, Moses, Pharaoh, the
Egyptians, and a chorus.  

The telling of
other Passover stories will be told after the feature presentation.

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Saturday

1/23/10  10am-12pm

Your Story
Writer’s Group (meets every 4th Saturday)

The focus of this informal group is personal writing and
memoir prep.  Sessions will use focused
writing, micro-instruction, prompts and critique.  This is an informal and open group and there
is no fee for participation. Facilitated by Gaines Steer, Personal Historian
and proprietor of Creative Writing Services in Orange County.

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Saturday

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3/27  3pm  (note
new time)

Fosters &
Flyleaf Easter Egg-stravaganza:

Cookie Decorating,

the Easter Bunny and

Storytime featuring Darren Farrell, author of Doug-Dennis and the Flyaway Fib 

Join us for a joint Fosters Market &Flyleaf Books
event: bring the kids for a fun time of Easter cookie decorating and a
storytime with the Easter Bunny and Darren Farrell, author of the new, very
fun, picture book Doug-Dennis and the
Flyaway Fib. 

Recommended for
Preschool and up, this event is free and open to all kids.

More about Doug-Dennis
and the Flyaway Fib:

When best friends Doug-Dennis and Ben-Bobby go to the
circus, something terrible happens.

Doug-Dennis eats all of his best friend's popcorn, and
then tells a fib (It wasn't me!), which grows and grows (Maybe monsters ate
it!), carrying Doug-Dennis away.

As the lie gets bigger, Doug-Dennis flies higher, until
he's floating in a land of lies—some of them big, some small, and some just
downright weird. Doug-Dennis misses his best friend, and realizes there's only
one way to come back down: by finally telling the truth.

This charming sheep is sure to become a favorite. (And
that's the truth.)

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Saturday

3/27/10  7:00pm-8:00pm

Joanna Smith
Rakoff reads from A Fortunate Age

Instantly compelling and immensely satisfying, A
Fortunate Age details the
lives of a group of Oberlin graduates whose ambitions and friendships threaten
to unravel as they chase their dreams, shed their youth, and build their lives
in Brooklyn during the late 1990s.

There’s Lil, a would-be scholar whose wedding brings the
group back together; Beth, who struggles to let go of her old beau Dave, a
onetime piano prodigy trapped by his own insecurity; and Emily, an actor
perpetually on the verge of success— and starvation—who grapples with her
jealousy of Tal, whose acting career has taken off. At the center of their
orbit is wry, charismatic Sadie Peregrine, who coolly observes her friends’
mistakes but can’t quite manage to avoid making her own. As they begin their
careers, marry, and have children, they must navigate the shifting dynamics of
their friendships and of the world around them—from the decadent age of dot-com
millionaires to the sobering post–September 2001 landscape. Smith Rakoff’s
deeply affecting characters capture a generation.

"An entertaining, updated look at artistic-minded
young people progressing toward adulthood in New York. As they experience
marriage, children, dot-com busts, infidelities, alcohol abuse, personal
tragedies, professional successes, and other common experiences of
twentysomethings in the mid-1990s, Rakoff objectively and deftly chronicles all
of it."

-- Library Journal