"Rescued Writings" - a special reading sponsored by the Berea Arts Council

"Rescued Writings"

A special event sponsored by the Berea Arts Council

Saturday, March 29, 2008 - 2:00 PM at ArtSpace

Every year writers throughout the world submit thousands of novels, short stories, poems and non-fiction pieces for publication. And every year editors and agents, for one reason or another, reject the vast majority of these. Even for the best and most popular writers rejection happens. After spending six years creating the first installment of her "Harry Potter" novels, J.K. Rowling's book was rejected by 9 publishers before London's Bloomsbury Publishing chose to publish it. Ray Bradbury has received over a thousand rejections throughout his career and continues to receive them.

So what does this have to do with "Rescued Writings"? The Berea Arts Council is proud to present four state and national award winning authors reading from their writings that were rejected at one point or another.

Come join us for this special treat, play editor/agent, and you decide whether these works deserve to be published.

	Kristin Johannsen's books include Ginseng Dreams: The Secret World of America's Most Valuable Plant, and Ecotourism in Appalachia: Martketing the Mountains. She was co-editor of the anthology Missing Mountains: Kentuckians Write Against Mountaintop Removal. Her articles on travel, culture, and education have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, Mother Jones, Kentucky Living, and many other publications. She lives and writes in Berea, and is currently working on three new books at once.
Thomas Parrish's three current books are The Grouchy Grammarian (2002), The Submarine: A History (2004), and Restoring Shakertown (2005). In writing The Grouchy Grammarian, Parrish drew on his years of language study and his general publishing experience as an editor in Chicago and New York. His most recent book, Restoring Shakertown, chronicles the preservation of the historic landmark at Pleasant Hill, Kentucky.
	Bob Sloan is a working writer who doesn't have and isn't pursuing an MFA. He and his wife Julie live on thirty hillside acres east of Morehead in a house that was his father's and his grandfather's before that. His Appalachian commentaries have appeared on NPR's "Morning Edition" and in the Lexington Herald-Leader. He has won a Gold Medal from the Faulkner Society of New Orleans and a PRNDI from the professional association of public radio news directors. Sloan has published two books through Wind Publications - Bearskin to Holly Fork: Stories From Appalachia and more recently, Home Call: A Novel of Kentucky.
Jim Tomlinson's debut collection of stories, Things Kept, Things Left Behind, won the 2006 Iowa Short Fiction Award. Recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in Five Points, Shenandoah, Bellevue Literary Review, and New Stories from the South: The Year’s Best, 2008. Recent recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship, Jim lives and writes in Berea, Kentucky.
	This reading sponsored by Robie & Robie Fine Books 307 Chestnut Street, Berea, KY