Radford Reads with Author Jim Minick
Venue: Radford Public Library, Radford
Directions: Google Map Link
Organizations: Jim Minick
Date: Tuesday, May 15, 2018
Time: 7:00 - 8:00 PM
Event Types: Speaking Engagements
Cost: Free

Description:
The Radford Public Library presents Radford Reads with Author Jim Minick on Tuesday, May 15, 2018.

Join us as author Jim Minick delivers “Pennsylvania Folk Healing" and “Fire Is Your Water” in an explanatory presentation about the healing stories in his novel. Books will be available for purchase.

Jim Minick is the author of five books, including the novel Fire Is Your Water and The Blueberry Years: A Memoir of Farm and Family, winner of the SIBA Best Nonfiction Book of the Year Award. He’s also written a collection of essays, Finding a Clear Path, two books of poetry, Her Secret Song and Burning Heaven, and he edited All There Is to Keep by Rita Riddle.

His honors include the Jean Ritchie Fellowship in Appalachian Writing, and the Fred Chappell Fellowship at University of North Carolina-Greensboro. Minick has also won awards from the Southern Independent Booksellers Association, Southern Environmental Law Center, The Virginia College Bookstore Association, Appalachian Writers Association, Appalachian Heritage, Now and Then Magazine, and Radford University. His poem “I Dream a Bean” was picked by Claudia Emerson for permanent display at the Tysons Corner/Metrorail Station. He’s garnered grants from the Virginia Commission for the Arts, the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, Augusta University, Georgia Humanities Council, and a residency at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.

Minick’s work has appeared in many publications including Poets & Writers, Oxford American, Orion, Shenandoah, Encyclopedia of Appalachia, The Sun, Conversations with Wendell Berry, San Francisco Chronicle, Appalachian Journal, The Roanoke Times, and Still. He completed an MFA in fiction from UNC-Greensboro, where he was Fiction Editor for The Greensboro Review. Currently, he is Assistant Professor of English at Augusta University and Core Faculty at Converse College’s low-residency MFA program.

Links:

• http://www.jim-minick.com/wpdev/
• https://www.facebook.com/Jim-Minick-Fan-Page-352026648326

For more information, visit: http://www.radfordva.gov/326/Library or https://www.facebook.com/radford.public.library or call 540-731-3621.

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