Northwind Reading Series
On Thursday, May 24, Northwind Reading Series features Jeannine Hall Gailey and Annette Spaulding-Convy.
please note the date change to 5/24, there is no reading 5/10 due to bridge closure!
Jeannine Hall Gailey is the Seattle-area author of Becoming the Villainess and She Returns to the Floating World, which is an Eric Hoffer Montaigne Medal finalist for 2012. Her upcoming collaborative book of poetry and art, Unexplained Fevers, is forthcoming from Kitsune Books in 2013. Her work has been featured on NPR’s The Writer’s Almanac, Verse Daily, and in The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror. Her poems have appeared in journals like The Iowa Review, The Seattle Review, and Prairie Schooner. She volunteers as an editorial consultant for Crab Creek Review and currently teaches part-time at the MFA program at National University.
Annette Spaulding-Convy’s full length collection, In Broken Latin, will be published by the University of Arkansas Press in 2012 as a finalist for the Miller Williams Poetry Prize. Her chapbook, In The Convent We Become Clouds, won the 2006 Floating Bridge Press Chapbook Award and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Her poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner, North American Review, Crab Orchard Review and in the International Feminist Journal of Politics, among others. She is co-editor of the literary journal, Crab Creek Review, and is co-founder of Two Sylvias Press, which has published the first eBook anthology of contemporary women’s poetry, Fire On Her Tongue.
Northwind readings are free, though donations are gladly accepted to support Northwind Arts Center, a nonprofit organization dedicated to connecting the arts to our community. The readings are held at Northwind Arts Center unless otherwise stated. For more information contact Bill Mawhinney 360-437-9081.
