The Donald W. Reynolds Library Serving Baxter County has announced it will host its Second Annual Literary Series. The literary series has been developed to connect writers and readers in order to foster a love of literature and writing. The series, which is sponsored by the Friends of the Baxter County Library, will feature authors, writing workshops, and special events from Tuesday through December 2nd.
Guest Authors
Brooks Blevins, Sunday, Sept. 23rd, 2:00 until 3:00 p.m.
Blevins is a professor at Missouri State and is a multidisciplinary expert on all things Ozarks. He is a respected scholar with a broad range of interests extending from the history of American higher education to agriculture, religion, and society in the U.S. South. He has written seven books and edited or co-edited two additional volumes.
Marissa Moss via Skype, Tuesday, Oct. 9th, 4:00 until 5:30 p.m.
Moss is an author/illustrator who has written over 50 childrens books, from picture books to middle-grade and young adult novels. Marissas book Last Things is a true and intensely personal story of how one woman coped with the devastating effects of a catastrophic illness in her family. Her graphic memoir about ALS won the 2017 Robert Cowan Award and was selected by the Womens National Book Association for the 2017 Great Group Reads. Marissa is sponsored locally by Hospice of the Ozarks.
Dr. Adam Long, Thursday, Oct. 25, 2:00 until 3:30 p.m.
Adam is the director of the Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum. Longs scholarship focuses on the changing South at the beginning of the Twentieth Century. Though Ernest Hemingway is not from the South, he visited and wrote in Arkansas regularly and the prominent Pfeiffer family of Piggott was one of his greatest influences. Through this Arkansas connection, Long explores the ways in which the Arkansas Delta (and the South more generally) was connected to a rapidly changing world in the 1920s and 1930s.
Tim Ernst, Sunday, Dec. 2nd, 2:00 until 4:00 p.m.
Tim Ernst is Arkansas Wilderness Photographer. He has been hiking, driving and crawling around the wonderful Ozark Mountains for most of his life, preserving the images he sees on film for everyone to enjoy. His photographs have appeared in hundreds of national, regional and local publications. Each year Tim creates new slide programs of his work and tours them around the region. These audio-visual programs come to life with moving photos and wonderful music that you really have to experience to believe.
Writing Workshops
Poetry Workshop, Tuesday, Sept. 11th, 6:00 until 7:00 p.m.
A one hour workshop will be facilitated by R. Scott Flanagin, author of From Inside Out, a book of poetry. Come and share your thoughts on such topics as: why write poetry, inspiration, the process, editing. Bring material to share.
Discover the Writer in You, Tuesday, Sept. 18th, 6:00 until 7:00 p.m.
A one hour workshop led by Neilla Flanagin, retired creative writing instructor and author of the first Creative Writing Curriculum for Public Schools in Arkansas. Bring writing materials.
In the Beginning: For New and Emerging Writers, Saturday, Oct. 6th, 1:00 until 3:00 p.m.
For both Fiction and Non Fiction writers. Topics include: writing essentials such as, characterization, point-of-view, dialogue and internalization, scene, sense of place, mood and tone, and then a few grammar tips. The attendees will have exercises to do and will have the opportunity to share their writing. Presented by the Sisters of the Traveling Pens.
Imagery and Its Role in Narration, Tuesday, Oct. 16th, 6:00 until 7:30 p.m.
Craig Albin, Missouri Author Award winner in Fiction for his book, Hard Toward Home. His latest book, a collection of poems set in the Ozarks and titled Axe, Fire, Mule (Golden Antelope Press, 2018), was published April 2018.
Non-Fiction with a Journalistic Approach, Saturday, Oct. 20th, 1:00 until 3:30 p.m.
Little Rock native Evin Demirel writes about sports for the likes of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Arkansas Life and Arkansas Times. He is a journalist & author of “African-American Athletes in Arkansas” about regional heritage, sports & race relations.
Special Events
Diversity is a Strength exhibit, Sept. 6th-27th
R. Scott and Neilla Flanagin will have their latest art exhibit on display.
Mystery Dinner Theater at the Library, Friday, Oct. 12th, 6:00 p.m.
The Twin Lakes Playhouse presents The Deadly Diamond along with a dinner catered by Bookworms Café at the Library. $20 tickets available at the Library starting Sept. 12.
The Pfeiffer Family exhibit, Sept. 10th-Oct. 25th
The Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum and Educational Center in Piggott, Arkansas includes a barn studio associated with Ernest Hemingway and the family home of his second wife, Pauline Pfeiffer. Paulines parents, Paul and Mary Pfeiffer, were prominent citizens of Northeast Arkansas and owned more than 60,000 acres of land. During the 1930s, the barn was converted to a studio to give Hemingway privacy for writing while visiting Piggott. Portions of one of his most famous novels, A Farewell to Arms, and several short stories were written in this studio.
Local Author Book Sale & Signing, Saturday, Dec. 1st, 10:00 until 2:00 p.m.
Visit with local authors, purchase their book and get it autographed. Local authors interested in participating may register for table space at baxlib.org or call 870-580-0987.
For information about all library programs visit the librarys website at www.baxlib.org <http://www.baxlib.org/>. The Donald W. Reynolds Library Serving Baxter County is located at 300 Library Hill in Mountain Home.
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