Thursday, September 19
11:00 am – 11:45 am
Ashe County Public Library
This event is free and open to the public, no registration required.
Join us for a reading with Jim Minick with time for audience Q&A.
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Serving as the 2024 Appalachian Writer in Residence, Jim Minick explores the places and people of Appalachia in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Among the eight books he has authored or edited are Without Warning: The Tornado of Udall, Kansas, The Intimacy of Spoons, Fire is Your Water, and The Blueberry Years: A Memoir of Farm and Family. Jim serves as co-editor of Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel Literary Journal. He lives in southwest Virginia. jim-minick.com