TODAY: Nov.30th. 5:30 pm. Meet six noted Savannah Writers Fundraiser.
On the evening of Thursday, November 30th, the hosts of the Listening To Literature radio program will host a program featuring six noted Savannah writers. The program will last from 5:30 – 8:30 pm, in Rahn Hall, on the left side of the Unitarian Universalist Church, 315 East Harris Street (hall entrance is on East Macon). The program is a fundraiser for WRUU-FM 107.5, community radio with global soul. Suggested donation is $10. Each writer will have a half hour to read from their works, talk about the discipline, answer questions, sign autographs, and cover other subjects. The schedule includes:
5:30 – Ariel Felton: Has written for in The New York Times, Vogue, The New Yorker (Shouts & Murmurs), The Washington Post, Bloomberg, The Bitter Southerner, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Savannah Magazine, and more. She is the President of the Flannery O’Connor Childhood Home Board of Directors. She also serves on the boards of the Savannah Book Festival and Seersucker Live.
6:00 – Vicki Weeks: Well-known to Savannah as an activist, environmentalist, and now, author. Her novel Code of Honor explores the events preceding and during the Iraqi War. Vicki is the owner of Weeks Consulting, and the founder of 99 Percent, a platform for progressive fiction.
6:30 – Laura Davenport: author of Dear Vulcan (LSU Press, 2020) and the chapbook Little Hates (Dancing Girl Press, 2016). Her poems have appeared in Best New Poets 2009, Crab Orchard Review, Meridian, Connotation Press, and others. Her prose has appeared in the Ploughshares Writers on Writing blog.
7:00 – Amy Paige Condon: Author of the biography A Nervous Man Shouldn’t Be Here in the First Place: The Life of Bill Baggs,” about one of the most influential newspaper editors of the 20th century that almost no one has heard of. It was nominated for the Georgia Book of the Year award. Amy founded the Refinery Writing Studio in 2017 to help aspiring and established writers develop their storytelling skills.
7:30 – Rob Hessler is one of the few reliable guides to Savannah’s large and diverse art community. An artist himself, he writes frequently on the art scene for the Savannah Morning News, covering both on-going events and in-depth looks at local artists. He serves on the Savannah Cultural Affairs Commission and formerly hosted Art On The Air, WRUU’s art broadcast.
8:00 – Captain Judy Helmey: Captain Helmey has been providing charter trips for fisherman for over five decades. She inherited the business from her father, Sherman Helmey. Some of his adventures and clients are documented at the American Prohibition Museum. Her book, My Father, The Sea, and Me provides a more detailed look at life at sea, both her’s and her father’s.
Points of Contact for the Event
Ed Eckstrand: farbear@hotmail.com
Leigh E. Rich: leighrco@yahoo.com
Additional information at WRUU 107.5 fm , Listening to Literature, Facebook: WRUU, When The Moon Sings
