Writers Can Read

This month’s Writers Can Read series will feature two  award-winning writers Bonnie Proudfoot and Michael Connick reading from their work. The event is free and open to the public and will take place on Monday, February 17 at 7 P.M. in Heritage Station at 210 11th Street in downtown Huntington.

Bonnie Proudfoot’s fiction, poetry, reviews, and essays can be found in journals and anthologies. She has been nominated twice for Pushcart Prize as well as a Best of the Net. Her novel, Goshen Road (OU/ Swallow Press) received WCONA’s Book of the Year and was Longlisted for the 2021 PEN/ Hemingway. Her 2022 poetry chapbook, Household Gods, can be found on Sheila-Na-Gig editions, along with a forthcoming book of short stories, Camp Probable. Bonnie resides in Athens, Ohio.  Learn more about Bonnie at https://bonnieproudfootblog.wordpress.com/

Michael Connick was born and raised in San Francisco, lived in Europe and the Middle East, and has lived in WV for the past 20 years. Michael is a competitive pistol shooter and an avid cyclist. He has published three Cold War spy novels and a crime novel set in Huntington. He is also the author of short stories, essays, and reviews. This work appears in Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel: Contemporary Appalachian Writing – Volume 26,  Mountain Whispers, The Shack Out Back, and The Writer’s Guide to Weapons. For more information, visit http://michaelconnick.com

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 Huntington, West Virginia. The event normally features two award-winning, published authors that serve as “featured readers” to begin the event each month. Previous featured readers have included: Marc Harshman, Denise Giardina, Crystal Wilkinson, Jonathan Corcoran, Doug Van Gundy, Robert Gipe, Nick White, and others. Afterwards, the mic is open to anyone in the audience that would like to share a creative work.