Local Author Reading and Signing Event
- Where: Reiland Fine Arts Center, University of Jamestown
- Date: Thursday, April 9, 2015
- Time: 7:00 pm
- Authors:
- Bruce Berg, Bill Kennedy, Nancy Kuykendall, Keith Norman, Larry Woiwode, Laurel Woiwode, Jim Stone.
- Violist : Brooke Carroll
- Benefit: James River Valley Library receives 20% of the proceeds generated at the reading.
Also… Nancy Kuykendall will be holding a book signing for her book, “Mornings on the Porch,” on Friday April 17th from 11-a.m. to 1-p.m., at Ye Olde Books and Curious Goods, at 226 East Main Street in Valley City. There will be a selling and signing and visiting with customers. Refreshments will be served.
Authors
Bruce Berg was a teacher of English and Speech at Rugby High School, Jamestown High School and the University of Jamestown for forty years. He directs the Jamestown Performing Arts group, a forum for one-act plays, musical performances and comedy shows. He has written over a million words.
Common Ground-Story of Jack Brown Stadium Photography by Reggie Aligada
Writer’s Block – Personal History of Jamestown
Sun Spots –
Jamestown Sun
Hear It Now and Then –
Prairie Public Reading Commentary
Pull Up a Chair –
Collaboration with Terry Anderson and Myra Watts
Pages Between Ages –
Collaboration with Laurel Woiwode
Bill Kennedy
Has his MFA in Creative Writing for Children and Young Adults from Hamline University in St. Paul, MN. He spent many years researching fashion trends around the world for department stores and apparel manufacturers. He and his wife have taught creative writing to students ranging from 3rd grade to 93 years old. The lesson plan doesn’t change much. He now focuses his writing on intermediate grade novels that feature Tramp, the world’s best dog detective. He lives in Jamestown, and is the Development Director for the James River Valley Library System. He is currently working on Tramp, Detective Extraordinaire.
The Singing Bone
Adult Historical Fiction-Magical Realism
Tramp, A Detective’s Story
Chapter book, ages 7-10
Nancy Kuykendall
studied and taught music for thirty years. She has played piano for churches and a wide variety of events throughout the years. She met and married her musician husband during those years, and the two have been performing together throughout their marriage. After retiring from teaching, Nancy took up writing. Her inspiration comes from her life experiences, surroundings, circumstances, life events, and the people and pets in her life. Mornings on the Porch is Nancy’s first book.
Mornings on the Porch – Memoir
Keith Norman
is a lifelong resident of the Dakotas who has made his home in Jamestown since 1982. His education includes Monango Public School and Valley City State College. His work experience includes computer operations and programing, bartending, medical clinic management, hosting a radio talk show and, most recently, staff writer and columnist for The Jamestown Sun. Over the past decade Norman has written a dozen non-fiction books based on regional history. In the past two years, Norman has expanded into fiction with a special interest in historic fiction.
Chasing the Dream – Mystery
The President’s Safari –
Historical Fiction
Dog Days of the Great War –
Historical Fiction
Larry Woiwode’s work has appeared in The Atlantic, Esquire, Harpers, GQ, The New York Times, Paris Review, Partisan Review, and others, along with two dozen stories in The New Yorker. His work has been translated into a dozen languages and is included in four volumes of Best American Short Stories. He is a Guggenheim Fellow, a Lannan Fellow, a U. S. State Department Traveling Artist, and in 1995 was awarded the Medal of Merit from the American Academy of Arts & Letters for “distinction in the art of the short story.” He is the poet laureate of North Dakota.
The Invention of Lefse - A Christmas Story
Words for Readers and Writers
Essays on Reading and Writing
Words Made Fresh – Essays on Literature and Criticism
Laurel Woiwode
has always had an avid interest in animals, nature, and literature. She grew up in western North Dakota and moved to Jamestown for college. She works at the James River Valley Library and at the University of Jamestown at a writing and study skills help desk for students. She writes movie reviews, works on writing and editing projects, and is always ready for outdoor adventures.
Past Darkness – Novel
Pages Between Ages
Short Story
Collaboration with Bruce Berg
Brooke Carroll
Violist Brooke Carroll was a full-scholarship Graduate Performance Diploma student at the Longy School of Music. She earned her Bachelor of Music in Viola Performance at the Biola Conservatory of Music, in California. Brooke was awarded the 2007 Presser Undergraduate Scholar Award, given to one outstanding music major at the Conservatory each year. In 2008, she won the Biola Concerto Competition, and was featured performing Bohuslav Martinu’s Rhapsody Concerto with the orchestra. Brooke lives in Jamestown, ND, where she is Adjunct Instructor of Violin and Viola at the University of Jamestown.
“Jim Stone is as good a poet as any I’ve worked with over the past thirty years, whether in workshops from Maine to Texas, or at the U of Wisconsin, Madison, or SUNY-Binghamton. He has yet to publish a book, although I’ve urged him to send off poems or a MS.” Quote from Larry Woiwode. Jim is the chair and sole faculty of the Criminal Justice division at the University of Jamestown.
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