https://www.facebook.com/BookCityRoanoke/videos/284907902031590/ Click above to watch Beth Macy and Dar Williams in conversation on the BOOK CITY ★ Roanoke stage. The event was sold out, but you don't have to miss a moment. Special thanks to production team lead Denise Allen Membreno at New Moon Creative Media. Learn more about Dar Williams and What I Found in a Thousand… Continue reading ★ Dar Williams and Beth Macy from the BOOK CITY ★ Roanoke Stage
Author: Douglas Charles Jackson
Roanoke VA based writer and community coach.
★ Roanoke Times features Finding Roanoke
Thanks, Casey Fabris, Heather Rousseau, and Tad Dickens for terrific Roanoke Times coverage of the Finding Roanoke series and Dar Williams' What I Found in a Thousand Towns. Can you imagine what our community would be like without The Roanoke Times? Talk about building community in a BOOK CITY! I have to step out of… Continue reading ★ Roanoke Times features Finding Roanoke
★ Artemis Hollins fall poetry reading Thursday, 12/7
Artemis Journal wraps up 2016 with a poetry reading on the Hollins Campus this Thursday, December 7. Join Hollins Faculty, Artemis poets and a community of readers and writers in the Wyndham Robertson Library on the Hollins Campus. Readers include Judy Ayyildiz, Josh Barkan, Maurice Ferguson, Cathy Hankla, Susan Hankla, Charlotte Morgan, Pauline Pauley and Elizabeth… Continue reading ★ Artemis Hollins fall poetry reading Thursday, 12/7
★ Big Ideas for Better Places Podcast featuring Dar Williams
Finding Roanoke! Can't wait for next week's Positive Proximity conversation with Dar Williams and Beth Macy? Get a preview in this CityWorks' Big Ideas for Better Places conversation. Brad Stephens interviewed Dar Williams on the occasion of September's release of What I Found in a Thousand Towns. The result is an engaging, enlightening conversation and just… Continue reading ★ Big Ideas for Better Places Podcast featuring Dar Williams
★ Mill Mountain Theatre’s Travis Kendrick asks young playwrights to Write Stuff!
Write Stuff!—Mill Mountain Theatre’s young playwrights program, returns for its second year in 2018. The playwriting competition is open to middle and high school students and the deadline for submissions is Dec. 31, 2017. Winning plays will be selected by a panel of Mill Mountain Theatre (MMT) professional artists. The chosen plays will be performed… Continue reading ★ Mill Mountain Theatre’s Travis Kendrick asks young playwrights to Write Stuff!
★ Act by December 4: Few tickets remain for our evening with Dar Williams and Beth Macy
We're less than two weeks away from our causal dinner, conversation, and song featuring authors Dar Williams and Beth Macy. December 11, 6-8 PM. 16 West Marketplace 16 West Church Street Roanoke, Virginia. Remember: you can get a ticket by purchasing a book at a local book store, but there aren't many left. Claim your ticket… Continue reading ★ Act by December 4: Few tickets remain for our evening with Dar Williams and Beth Macy
★ FIVE ON Good Government from Boones Mill Town Manager Matt Lawless
In the FIVE ON series, we're sharing book recommendations on focused topics from those in the know. This week: Boones Mill Town Manager Matt Lawless on good government. LAWLESS: I'm a rookie town manager, and I'm working hard to learn about my new home and empower residents in this community. At 29, I know… Continue reading ★ FIVE ON Good Government from Boones Mill Town Manager Matt Lawless
★ Grant Kittrell sits down, figures this out
Grant Kittrell may not be from here, but we're claiming him. He came to the area to attend Hollins, and now that he's graduated, locally employed and locally published, you can find him here and there reading from his first book of prose poems, Let's Sit Down, Figure this Out (Groundhog Poetry Press, 2017). Pick up… Continue reading ★ Grant Kittrell sits down, figures this out
★ Giving thanks
Oh, that for which I am grateful. For books. For the freedom to write in a community of disparate voices equally free. For the time, sight, and mind for words. For the vision of tomorrow alive in our libraries, our neighborhoods and schools. For new ventures, willing risk takers, and this place worth the investment. For the love… Continue reading ★ Giving thanks
★ NEWS # 5: Fall Update
BOOK CITY Residents: Get the latest in the current newsletter. It's right here. Updates, progress, upcoming events, and more.
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