AIW Member News : March 2010
AIW Board member Andrew W. M. Beierle read from his novel First Person Plural on Friday, Feb. 19, at the Writers Center event Story/Stereo, an occasional fusion of literary and musical performances. He was joined onstage by San Francisco author Marianne Villanueva and indie rocker J. Robbins.
Rebecca Bredholt recently published three freelance articles and has been promoted to Featured Travel Writer on AssociatedContent.com. To read Bredholt’s articles go to “How to Choose a Cruise,” http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2747119/how_to_choose_a_cruise.html?cat=16, “What Makes Piney Hill the Best Little Country Bed and Breakfast in Luray, Virginia,” http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2717711/what_makes_piney_hill_the_best_little.html?cat=16, Ultimate Victorian Bed and Breakfast Experience in Luray, Virginia, http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2717445/ultimate_victorian_bed_and_breakfast.html?cat=16.
Mary Collins continues to actively promote her new book, American Idle: A Journey Through Our Sedentary Culture. She will be the guest speaker at the Pedestrian & Bicyclist Summit on March 27 at St. Michael’s College in Vermont. She will be doing a book signing on Saturday, April 10th at the AWP annual conference in Denver, CO. As the editor of the CT Review, she will also have a table in the main tent on Friday and Saturday. Please swing by to say hello or to ask about submitting to the Review. This summer she plans to lead book/bike events in the south starting in May. Local wellness leaders will organize 5 to 10K bike rides for the community and then, at the end, she’ll sign books. She also recently completed an essay, “Moving the Idle Majority,” which will appear in Peter Menzel’s latest title for his Material World photo book series. The new title, edited by Michael Pollan, is Around the World in 80 Diets. Random House will publish it in August 2010.
An excerpt from Eileen Cronin’s memoir will appear in the spring issue of Third Coast and an additional excerpt is forthcoming in The Literary Review.
The Friends of the Duncan Library are hosting local writer Frank Joseph, author of To Love Mercy, on Wednesday, March 10, 2010, at 7:30 p.m.. To Love Mercy has won six awards and critical praise from across the nation. Awards include the New York Book Festival 2007 – Teen Fiction, 2007 Eric Hoffer Award, the 2007 Reader Views Awards, and the 2007 Indie Excellence Awards (in two categories, “Historical Fiction” and “Multicultural Fiction”). The event is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served. The Duncan Library is part of the Alexandria Library system and is located at 2501 Commonwealth Avenue, Alexandria, VA 22301. For more information or directions, please call 703-838-4566 or visit www.alexandria.lib.va.us.
Rochelle Kainer, Ph.d. was asked to write on “Psychoanalysis, Buddhism, and the 12-Step Program–Three Paths of Healing” was published in the Fall 2009 issue of Psychologist-Psychoanalyst, the official publication of the division of psychoanalysis of the American Psychological Association.
Gary Knight, AIW member and published author, has been asked by his US Naval Academy Class (1970) to write a Class History for inclusion in their 40th Reunion yearbook. The event is happening next September. The Class has produced one Congressman, one Deputy Secretary, 2 Generals Counsel, 3 4-star Admirals, and 23 other officers of flag rank.
In February, Debbi Mack’s debut novel, Identity Crisis, won Best Mystery Novel in the Predators & Editors Readers Poll for 2009. On Saturday, March 13, she will be signing her novel, Identity Crisis, at The Book Lover’s Cafe, part of the Women’s Expo to be held at the Community College of Baltimore County in Catonsville, MD. For more information, call 443-857-1549 or visit http://www.womensexpomd.com/program/index.html. On Saturday, March 20, Debbi will be signing her novel at The Virginia Festival of the Book in Charlottesville, VA. For more information, call 434-924-3296 or visit http://www.vabook.org/index.html/.
Eugene L. Meyer has a new gig, editor of B’nai B’rith Magazine, http://www.bnaibrith.org/magazines/index.cfm.
Margaret Rodenberg’s unpublished novel, “Like a Moonshine Bridge,” won first place in the San Francisco Writers Conference fiction contest. This spring, her award-winning (Writers Digest, Carve Magazine) short story, “Mrs Morrisette,” will be published in the Conference’s annual anthology.
Janice Lynch Schuster’s article, “Lapsing Into a Snowma” appeared in the Metro section of The Washington Post on Sunday, February 21. An essay on finding meaning in boxing will run in the March issue of Washingtonian Magazine.
Lucie L. Snodgrass’ new book, Dishing Up Maryland (Storey 2010), will be published on March 24. It’s a seasonal, regional cookbook with about three dozen short essays on farmers, watermen, and chefs in Maryland. Award winning photographer Edwin Remsberg had done the photography, and a portion of the proceeds will be donated to the Maryland’s Best marketing program, which promotes Maryland food and farmers. The book retails for $19.95.
Kat Spitzer’s daily blog, “The Happy Hypochondriac,” has a new address. Readers can now find it at www.happyhypochondriac.com .
The Japanese newspaper Shimbun Akahata carried an article on February 6, 2010 reporting on Leslie Sussan’s work to preserve the story of her father’s experiences creating the only color film record of the aftermath of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. She spent a year in Japan coming to know survivors whom her father had filmed almost 40 years before and has returned numerous times since then. Most recently, she spoke at the Hiroshima Peace Museum in July 2009. Akahata reported on her dream of becoming an “American Kataribe,” a witness against the horrors of atomic warfare. For more information go to http://www.jcp.or.jp/akahata/index.html (Japanese language only; rough English translation by reporter available on request from leslie.sussan@verizon.net).
David Taylor will discuss his book Soul of a People: The WPA Writers’ Project Uncovers Depression America (Wiley) on a panel at the Virginia Book Festival in Charlottesville, Friday, March 19 at 6:00 pm. The panel explores Appalachia and the South in the 20th Century; other panelists include Katrina Powell (“Answer at Once”: Letters of Mountain Families in Shenandoah National Park, 1934-1938) and Max Watman (Chasing the White Dog: An Amateur Outlaw’s Adventures in Moonshine).
Joseph L.S. Terrell has a new novel coming out at the end of March. It is a mystery set at North Carolina’s Outer Banks, Tide of Darkness: ‘The Lost Colony’ Theater Murders. The book is being published by Bella Rosa Books (www.bellarosabooks.com) and features true-crime writer Harrison Weaver who comes to the Outer Banks seeking peace and quiet only to find himself involved in a murder investigation that threatens to cost him his life.
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