KENTUCKY GREAT WRITERS SERIES

LexArts has provided funding support for the Kentucky Great Writers series, the Master Class in Fiction and the Master Class in Poetry through its Fund for the Arts.

The Kentucky Great Writers Series connects Carnegie Center students with authors in an intimate atmosphere. Mark your calendar for these upcoming reading events. You won’t want to miss it! Each event starts at 7:00 PM with a 30-minute open-mic session to give the audience a chance to participate. At 7:30 the readings by featured authors will begin. Each author will read for 15-20 minutes from a work of their choice. After the author readings, the audience will have the opportunity to get books signed. Locally owned Morris Book Shop will be on hand to sell the Kentucky author’s books.

Here’s what’s coming up:

Tuesday, February 7

Nikky Finney, 2011 National Book Award Winner in Poetry
Head Off & Split
Bobbie Ann Mason,
The Girl in the Blue Beret
Ed McClanahan,
I Just Hitched In from the Coast

Learn from the Kentucky Great Writers!
Several of the featured Kentucky Great Writers are offering seminars in preparation for their readings. Join the authors for hands-on seminars and workshops, then come back during the readings to hear them in action! Visit the Saturday Seminar page for the full list of workshops offered.

If you’ve missed Kentucky Great Writers Series in the past, check out some of the authors we’ve been honored to have!

Sallie Bingham, Mending
Kim Edwards, The Lake of Dreams
Maureen Morehead, The Melancholy Teacher
Nickole Brown, A Book of Birds
Tori Murden Mcclure,Pearl in the Storm: How I Found My Heart in the Middle of the Ocean
Katerina Stoykova, The Air Aorund the Butterfly
Sena Jeter Naslund,Adam and Eve
Holly Goddard Jones, Girl Trouble
Elizabeth Oakes, The Luminescence of All Things Emily
Alex Taylor, The Name of the Nearest River

Please join us for a look at the featured work before the event!

Eclectic Living Room: TBA – Leatha Kendrick

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The Kentucky Arts Council, the state arts agency, provides operating support to The Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning with state tax dollars and federal funding from the National Endowment for the Arts.

The Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning is supported, in part, by the Metlife Innovative Space Awards, a grant program of Leveraging Investments in Creativity in partnership with MIT and sponsored by the Metlife Foundation in collaboration with the Ford Foundation.