August Writers Can Read

On Monday, August 16 at 7 P.M, Heritage Station in Huntington, WV will host the monthly Writers Can Read event. This month’s event features two strong voices about rural living, authors Nora Shalaway Carpenter and Joe Mirenna reading selections from their work, as well as an open mic session for anyone who would like to share their prose or poetry with the audience.. No mask required if fully vaccinated. Both authors will be remotely attending via a video on a large screen and the audience will be in-person at Heritage Station.”

This month’s Writers Can Read series will feature two strong voices about rural living, authors Nora Shalaway Carpenter and Joe Mirenna. The event is free and open to the public and will take place on Monday, August 16 at 7 P.M. in Heritage Station at 210 11th Street in downtown Huntington.

Nora Shalaway Carpenter is a graduate of Vermont College of Fine Art’s MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults program. She is the author of the YA contemporary novel, The Edge of Anything (a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2020) and contributing editor of Rural Voices: 15 Authors Challenge Assumptions About Small-Town America (an NPR Best Book of 2020, Country Living Magazine’s Front Porch Book Club selection, and a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection). She will read from Rural Voices.

Joe Mirenna is the author of the memoir, The Making of a Field Hippie. Joe was a member of the WV-based Booger Hole Revival string band in the mid-1970s. He earned his degree in Education in Madison, WI and taught elementary school for over twenty years, then became a specialist in Gifted Education. Now he’s an innkeeper and continues to play music. Semi-retired, Joe is also a builder and designer living in Primrose, Wisconsin with his wife, Kathi.

The “Writers Can Read” open mic night reading series takes place on the third Monday of each month (all year) from 7:00-8:30 in Heritage Station at 210 11th Street in downtown