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SUMMARY:Writers Can Read Open Mic Night
DESCRIPTION:Each month Empire Books and News hosts Writers Can Read\, bringing together authors\, aspiring authors and those who just enjoy reading to share their works. Refreshments will be provided. The features writers this month are Natalie Sypolt and Torli Bush.\nNatalie Sypolt lives and writes in West Virginia. Her work has appeared in Glimmer Train\, Appalachian Heritage\, Still: The Journal\, among other fine journals. Natalie is the winner of the Glimmer Train New Writers Contest\, the Betty Gabehart Prize\, the West Virginia Fiction Award\, and Additionally\, Natalie serves as a literary editor for the Anthology of Appalachian Writers\, on the selection committee for the prestigious Weatherford Award in Fiction.\nTorli Bush is a poet from Webster Springs\, West Virginia. He is a mechanical engineering alumni from WVU and began his performing career in the spring of 2016 at Steel City Slam in Pittsburgh. He has since performed in several poetry slams\, most notably the 25th Annual Southern Fried Poetry Slam in Louisville\, KY in June of 2017. He was a 2018 panel feature at the West Virginia Governor’s School for Arts and has featured with Travelin Applachians Revue.
URL:https://visithuntingtonwv.org/event/writers-can-read-open-mic-night-4/
LOCATION:Empire Books and News\, 30 Pullman Square\, Huntington\, WV\, 25701\, United States
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SUMMARY:Drag Queen Story Time
DESCRIPTION:Join Jade & Giselle for a story hour for all ages. Cookies and Hot Chocolate provided. ‘Tango Makes Three’ and ‘Jacob’s New Dress’ celebrate acceptance and inclusion in a way that makes sense to kids and adults alike and read by two of Huntington’s finest drag entertainers. Please join us!
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SUMMARY:Small Business Saturday Signing
DESCRIPTION:Local authors will be signing their books as part of the Inner Geek’s Small Business Saturday event!\nOur featured authors are:\n-Marilyn Brokaw Hall\n-Don Hatfield\n-Carter Seaton\n-Scott Walk\n-James Casto\n-John Yeager\n-Lulu Smith
URL:https://visithuntingtonwv.org/event/small-business-saturday-signing/
LOCATION:Empire Books and News\, 30 Pullman Square\, Huntington\, WV\, 25701\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181015T190000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181015T210000
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SUMMARY:Writers Can Read Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Each month Empire Books and News hosts Writers Can Read\,\nbringing together authors\, aspiring authors and those who just\nenjoy reading to share their works. Refreshments will be provided.\nThe readings will begin at 7pm.\nFeatured readers this month are Renee Nicholson and Jeff Mann.\nRenée Nicholson studied English at Butler University\, and holds a MFA in Creative Writing from West Virginia University where she won the Rebecca Mason Perry Award for Outstanding First-Year MFA Student and the Russ MacDonald Prize for Graduate Writing\, Fiction. She served as Assistant to the Director of the West Virginia Writers’ Workshop 2007-2017\, serves on the book reviews staff at Los Angeles Review\, and is a member of the National Book Critics Circle. She is currently involved with Narrative Medicine Projects at WVU’s Health Science Center.\nJeff Mann grew up in Covington\, Virginia\, and Hinton\, West Virginia\, receiving degrees in English and forestry from West Virginia University. His poetry\, fiction\, and essays have appeared in many publications. He has published three award-winning poetry chapbooks. In 2013\, he was inducted into the Saints and Sinners Literary Festival Hall of Fame. He teaches creative writing at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg\, Virginia.
URL:https://visithuntingtonwv.org/event/writers-can-read-open-mic-2/
LOCATION:Empire Books and News\, 30 Pullman Square\, Huntington\, WV\, 25701\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180917T190000
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SUMMARY:Writers Can Read Open Mic Night
DESCRIPTION:Each month Empire Books and News hosts Writers Can Read\,\nbringing together authors\, aspiring authors and those who just\nenjoy reading to share their works. Refreshments will be provided. The readings will begin at 7pm.\nFeatured readers this month are Meredith Sue Willis and Ginny Savage Ayers.\nMeredith Sue Willis teaches novel writing at New York University’s School of Professional Studies. She is the author\nof twenty-two books\, including A Space Apart\, Love Palace\, Out of the Mountains: Appalachian Stories\, and Oradell at Sea\n(West Virginia University Press). She has received literary fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the\nNew Jersey State Council on the Arts and has won awards such as the PEN Syndicated Fiction Award\, the West Virginia\nLibrary Association Literary Merit Award\, and the Appalachian Heritage Denny C. Plattner Prize for both fiction and nonfiction.\nGinny Savage Ayers\, daughter of Lon Savage\, has worked for many years in scientific research and teaching. She currently resides in Maryville\, Tennessee\, where she is involved in several\nenvironmental and social causes.
URL:https://visithuntingtonwv.org/event/writers-can-read-open-mic-night-3/
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SUMMARY:Writers Can Read Open Mic Night
DESCRIPTION:Each month Empire Books and News hosts Writers Can Read bringing together authors\, aspiring authors and those who just enjoy reading to share their works. This event is free and open to the public. This month’s featured speakers are Crystal Good and Gene Williams.\nCrystal Good is a Quantum Christian\, Tunk player\, Libra charmer\, and Underdog cheerleader. As a member of the\nAffrilachian (African-American-Appalachian) Poets\, she is a featured poet/speaker at universities and colleges. “Valley Girl” is her first book of poetry.\nA journalism graduate from Kent State University\, Gene worked for several large national newspapers and of won dozens of AP awards for writing and section editing. Gene is\nauthor of the Noah Greene mystery series and is currently finishing work on “My Grave Is Deep”\, also featuring Noah Greene .
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SUMMARY:"Huntington Chronicles" by James Casto - Book Signing
DESCRIPTION:James Casto will be signing his book at Empire Books and News from 3pm to 5pm Saturday May 5.\nAbout “Huntington Chronicles”\nFounded in 1871 by railroad tycoon Collis P. Huntington\, the city of Huntington has a dramatic and colorful past. The mystery of the daring 1875 holdup of the town’s premier bank was never solved\, and many suspected the infamous James Gang. The 1937 flood was the most devastating in city history. Of course\, Huntington has had its share of famous residents\, including Dr. Carter G. Woodson\, widely recognized as the father of Black History Month\, and Woody Williams\, whose bravery at Iwo Jima earned him the Medal of Honor. Amateur historian and local journalist James E. Casto compiles fascinating and unusual stories from his long career at the Huntington Herald-Dispatch.
URL:https://visithuntingtonwv.org/event/huntington-chronicles-by-james-casto-book-signing/
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SUMMARY:Independent Book Store Day
DESCRIPTION:Empire Books and News at Pullman Square celebrates  Independent Bookstore Day Saturday\, April 28.\n\n\nEmpire will kick off the celebration at 11 a.m. in Carnival style with costumed staff hosting a day of games and prizes for all ages\, popcorn\, lemonade\, animal balloons\, a llama activity center\, caricature drawings and tarot readings. There also will be several raffle drawings\, including a grand raffle prize valued at more than $200 which is Harry Potter-themed.\n\n Empire Books and News also will offer exclusive day-of merchandise created especially for Independent Bookstore Day by major publishers and authors.
URL:https://visithuntingtonwv.org/event/independent-book-store-day/
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SUMMARY:Writers Can Read Open Mic Night
DESCRIPTION:Each month Empire Books and News hosts Writers Can Read bringing together authors\, aspiring authors and those who just enjoy reading to share their works. This event is free and open to the public. This month’s featured readings are by Cat Pleska\, from her collection of essays\, stories\, and poems; Voices on Unity: Coming Together\, Falling Apart.
URL:https://visithuntingtonwv.org/event/writers-can-read-open-mic-night/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171218T190000
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SUMMARY:Writers Can Read Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Writers Can Read Open mic night\, which will be on Monday\, Dec. 18 beginning at 7 at Empire Books and News. Diana Walker and Brandon Kirk will be our featured readers.\nAnyone attending is invited to share a 10-minute piece of a completed work or a work in progress with the audience during the “open mic” portion of the program following the featured readers’ presentations. The event is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be provided.
URL:https://visithuntingtonwv.org/event/writers-can-read-open-mic/
LOCATION:Empire Books and News\, 30 Pullman Square\, Huntington\, WV\, 25701\, United States
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SUMMARY:Empire Books and News Holiday Open House and Author Gallery
DESCRIPTION:Join Empire Books and News for their annual Holiday Open House and Author Gallery as they celebrate Small Business Saturday in festive style. Enjoy live music of the season\, refreshments\, Story time with Wonder Woman and fantastic store specials throughout the day. Many of our favorite local authors will be on hand with their books books ready for signing\, a very special touch for all the book lovers on your shopping list. They also offer free gift wrapping.\nStory Time with Wonder Woman 11am\nLive Music by Steve Free 1pm – 4pm\nAuthor’s Gallery 1pm – 4pm
URL:https://visithuntingtonwv.org/event/empire-books-and-news-holiday-open-house-and-author-gallery/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20171120T190000
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SUMMARY:Writers Can Read
DESCRIPTION:Each month Empire Books and News holds a night to celebrate the literary arts and the love of reading featuring published authors reading their own works and unpublished authors trying out something they’ve penned. This event is free and open to the public.\nThis month’s guest readers are Joe Limer and Cat Pleska.\nJoe Limer\, a West Virginia native from Clarksburg holds a B.A. in both English and Political Science from Fairmont State University and a Juris Doctorate of Law from West Virginia University. Joe now resides in San Diego. CA where he is a Professor at Palomar College teaching political science/legal studies as well as poetry workshops at Palomar and Mira Costa College. Beginning as a closet poet\, Joe is a winning national competitor in the poetry slam scene; a competition in which oral poets read or recite original work. He has been on three San Diego slam teams that have placed in the top ten nationally.\nCat Pleska\, is an essayist for West Virginia Public Radio\, and a book reviewer for West Virginia University Press. Her first book\, Riding on Comets: a Memoir was short listed for the 2015 book of the year by Foreword Magazine. April of this year she published her cookbook One Foot in the Gravy— Hooked on the Sauce: Recipes You’ll Relish and is working on a novel\, a collection of short stories\, and a collection of essays. She holds a BA\, MA and MFA from Goucher College. She teaches in the graduate humanities program for Marshall University and is a full time Instructor for Arizona State University’s Master of Liberal Studies Program
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