The Louisiana Center for the Book in the State
Library will host five WordShops on Friday, Oct. 31, in Baton Rouge, the day
before the Louisiana Book Festival.
Fellowship
of Southern Writers member Jill McCorkle, author of four story collections and
six novels, presents “Finding the Story,” a fiction workshop focusing on
showing and telling the story one has always wanted to write.
Mark
Dunn, a genre-busting novelist, leads young writers in “Breaking the Rules: A
Teen Writing Workshop for the Creatively Hyperactive,” an exploration of the non-traditional
ways of expressing oneself with language.
Comic
artist Barbara Slate guides attendees on how to write and draw comic books and
graphic novels as she presents “You Can Do a Graphic Novel.”
Louisiana
Poet Laureate Ava Leavell Haymon presents “Making Poems out of Your Own
Experience” through translating memories into poems. Haymon has published four
poetry collections. She also edits the LSU Press Barataria Poetry Series.
Journalist
Earl Swift, author of five books of narrative nonfiction, presents “The Lovely
Bones: On Organizing Your Research and Writing,” offering strategies for
organizing field notes, interview transcripts and documentary research.
For
additional information or to register for WordShops, call (225) 219-9503 or
visit LouisianaBookFestival.org/wordshops.html.
New releases
Clifton
Taulbert, author of the bestseller “Once Upon a Time When We Were Colored,”
has published a memoir, “The Invitation,” chronicling the transformative
experience Taulbert had in accepting an invitation to dinner in Allendale,
South Carolina, where he relives old wounds growing up in segregated
Mississippi. The book addresses a powerful turning point for a black man,
that of facing childhood pain in a time when social mores have dramatically
changed. It’s a poignant memoir, although a bit slow moving for my tastes.
I couldn’t help thinking this would have been better served as a long
magazine piece. Taulbert is the author of five other books and president
and CEO of Roots Java Coffee and the founder and president of the Building
Community Institute.
Former
Louisiana state representative and Special Forces veteran of the Vietnam
War Odon Bacque has written an e-book on his time in Vietnam titled “A Walk in the Park: A Vietnam Comedy.” The book recalls Bacque’s often times
comedic experiences during the Vietnam War, largely thanks to the letters
he wrote to his wife, Cookie, while he was deployed. The book is available
at Amazon.com
Michael
Pitre of New Orleans, a former Marine, has published a debut novel of war
titled “Fives and Twenty-Fives.” Kirkus labeled the novel “one of the
definitive renderings of the Iraq experience.” The title refers to the rule
of war where soldiers must scan five meters, then sweep twenty-five meters
when investigating a possible roadside bomb. Pitre is a graduate of LSU
where he was a double major in history and creative writing. He will be
signing books at 6 p.m. Tuesday at Octavia Books in New Orleans. To watch a
trailer for the book, visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqtfVxNxm5o.
Cheré Coen is the author
of “Haunted Lafayette, Louisiana” and “Exploring Cajun Country: A Historic
Guide to Acadiana,” both from The History Press, and co-author of “Magic’s
in the Bag: Creating Spellbinding Gris Gris Bags and Sachets.” Her next
book is “Forest Hill, Louisiana: A Bloom Town History.” Write her at cherecoen@gmail.com.
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