Events

Saturday 06/05/10 10am-12pm Sharing Your Life Story: A Memoir Class with Alice Osborn Cost: $20 Have you been told you should write a book? Or that you have a story that needs to be told? Then this 2-hour memoir workshop led by Alice Osborn will help you get started writing your memoir. Writing exercises and Alice's gentle and focused feedback will help you generate memorable prose and new writing techniques. All writing levels are welcome. Register online here:  http://bit.ly/c6yett   Alice Osborn helps creative writers get published and helps small business owners improve their communication so they can build their brand and grow their business. Alice is the author of Right Lane Ends, is a former English teacher at Raleigh Charter High School, and works with the United Arts Council to bring writing and creativity to grades 4-12 in area schools. Alice offers creative writing and business seminars throughout the Triangle and teaches at Meredith College, Raleigh Parks and Recreation, Apex Community Center, Duke Continuing Studies and other learning centers. She is a regular guest contributor to the News and Observer, The Pedestal Magazine and Wake Living. She lives in Raleigh with her husband and two children. Visit her website at http://aliceosborn.com.

Saturday 6/5  7pm-8pm Belle Boggs reads from her short story collection Mattaponi Queen Set on the Mattaponi Indian Reservation and in its surrounding countries, the stories in this linked collection detail the lives of rural men and women with stark realism and plainspoken humor. A young military couple faces a future shadowed by injury and untold secrets. A dying alcoholic attempts to reconcile with his estranged children. And an elderly woman’s nurse weathers life with her irascible charge by making payments on a decrepit houseboat—the Mattaponi Queen. The land is parceled into lots, work opportunities are few, and the remaining inhabitants must choose between desire and necessity as they navigate the murky stream of possession, love, and everything in between.   Belle Boggs has published work in Glimmer Train, Oxford American, and At Length. She holds an MFA in fiction from the University of California at Irvine and grew up in King William County, Virginia.