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Friday, August 03, 2007

Meet Baltimore Authors!

Baltimore area book lovers will have a unique opportunity to meet six local fiction authors and hear them read from their recent works at the Baltimore Authors Showcase. The event is free and open to the public.

The Baltimore Authors Showcase takes place on Saturday, August 18 from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. at the historic Canton Branch of the Enoch Pratt Library located at 1030 S. Ellwood Ave. in Baltimore.

Highlighting Baltimore’s contemporary literary talents, the showcase is co-sponsored by the Baltimore Chapter of the Maryland Writers' Association (MWAB) and the Enoch Pratt Free Library with the support of the CityLit Project, Write Here, Write Now, and the Friends of the Canton Library.

Refreshments (in addition to the literature) will be provided.

The featured authors are:

Eric D. Goodman - Award-winning author of the novel-in-short-stories TRACKS, and featured in The Washington Post, On Stage Magazine, Travel Insights, Coloquio, The Baltimore Review, Writers Weekly, and Arabesques Review, among others;

Angela Render - Author of the historical novel Forged By Lightning: A Novel of Hannibal and Scipio, and featured in Smithsonian Magazine Online and Writers Journal;

Mathew Lee Gill - Author of the award-winning suspense novel leaving the canoe club;

Lalita Noronha - Award-winning author of a short story collection, Where Monsoons Cry, an editor of The Baltimore Review, and featured in The Baltimore Sun, Catholic Digest, and The Christian Science Monitor;

Paul Lagasse - Award-winning author of the young-adult historical novel Seeing Through Clouds: the Story of an Airship Apprentice; and

Caryn Coyle - Author of fiction featured in the online literary quarterly JMWW.

Come out for an exciting afternoon of fiction and refreshments at the Baltimore Authors Showcase!

For more information, check out the event’s flyer.

http://www.mwabaltimore.org/showcase-flyer.pdf

To read more about it, take a look at the official press release.

http://www.mwabaltimore.org/showcase-pr.pdf

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