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Hanging on the Porch: Special Salon Readings From…
October 26, 2023 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
We’re celebrating the written word with our friends at Summerville’s own South Porch Artists Residency. Each month, hosting artists and entrepreneurs Brad Erickson and Brian Protheroe bring in budding artists from around the country to create art and community at their historic property (516 Central Ave).
They (and we!) believe that artists, writers, scholars and clergy – while often undervalued – provide essential services to our society, and to each of us as human beings. They uncover the universe, reveal our common humanity, expose injustice, point to reconciliation, and nurture our hearts, minds and spirits.
And this month, we have a VERY unique opportunity to bring their visiting writers to share with YOU at Main Street Reads!
This will be a Thursday evening event on October 26th (Fourth Thursday), and refreshments will be served. We invite you to come hear their words and mix and mingle with these bright young minds!
Featured Writers
Wisconsin author and poet Carrie Voigt Schonhoff has self-published two books of poems titled, ‘The Liminal Space’ and ‘The End of the Beginning.’ She was widowed in 2012 and that life challenge has taught her many things, some of which she writes about in her books. She completed her first Book Tour of over 24 local and international events in 2022. This year, she released audio books for both of her poetry books.
Having just started her writing journey a couple years ago, while maintaining her full-time job, Carrie wants her readers to know that you’re never too old, too young, too busy, or too burnt out to follow your passions and what makes you truly happy. And for her, that’s sharing her art with the world. You can learn more about Carrie and find her books at liminalartistry.com.
Melora Fern writes fiction about birds, emboldened women, and life’s complicated relationships. She recently moved to Hillsborough, NC and thoroughly enjoys her writers-critique group, hiking and making new friends.
She’ll be reading the first chapter (about 2000 words) of Whistling Women and Crowing Hens, her debut, soon to-be-published historical fiction about a woman claiming her independence during the tumultuous 1920s. When a naïve concert whistler escapes her overbearing sister by joining a traveling troupe, she experiences forbidden lesbian love and discovers self-empowerment can cause heartbreak.
Kate M Carey enjoys farmers markets, beach walks, Buckeye football, and exploring the politics of everyday life. Her fiction and essays have appeared in the anthologies Things We Carry Still Anthology (Nov 2023) from Middle West Press, County Lines Journal, Savanna Writers Anthology, and the journals Reckon Review, Noctua, The Tishman Review, and Panoply.
She’ll read from her essay One Sheep a Herd Makes, which was published by Reckon Review in July.
LA Hawkins is a practicing lawyer, so (surprise surprise) dreams of a career as a writer. A private poet since the age of 8, she writes to make sense of a mixed-up world, and began sharing her words with others only in the past few years. Her first novel, Ribbons of Guilt, is very much in process and the focus of her time at South Porch.
She will be reading a short story, entitled “Four Eyes” which centers on a young girl whose new glasses bring color as well as clarity.