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Literary & Writing Programs
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Ohio Writers Series: Lyn Ford
Lyn Ford
The Public Library’s Ohio Writers Series presents its final installment on Tuesday, October 11, featuring internationally acclaimed Ohio storyteller and author Lyn Ford.
In keeping with the Library’s tradition of serving mocktails in the Outdoor Annex, this event will feature hot apple cider and pumpkin pie, to celebrate the fruits of harvest season. Doors will open at 6:30pm at the Library’s Outdoor Annex, 201 N. Mulberry Street in Mount Vernon (rain site: Urton Clockhouse in Ariel Foundation Park).
To celebrate Lyn’s work, the Library will offer a book giveaway of her collection Affrilachian Tales: Folktales from the Africa-American Tradition. The book giveaway begins Monday, September 26 and continues while supplies last.
The book giveaways and the Ohio Writers Series author visits are made possible by Humanities Grants for Libraries, an initiative of the American Library Association (ALA) made possible with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) through the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021.
The Library’s Ohio Writers Series series is a collaboration with Mount Vernon Arts Consortium, the Kenyon Review, Kenyon College Office for Community Partnerships, and Ariel-Foundation Park.
Reservations are encouraged, but not required for this program. Please email knoxwrites1@gmail.com or call (740) 392-BOOK ext 259 for more information.
In keeping with the Library’s tradition of serving mocktails in the Outdoor Annex, this event will feature hot apple cider and pumpkin pie, to celebrate the fruits of harvest season. Doors will open at 6:30pm at the Library’s Outdoor Annex, 201 N. Mulberry Street in Mount Vernon (rain site: Urton Clockhouse in Ariel Foundation Park).
To celebrate Lyn’s work, the Library will offer a book giveaway of her collection Affrilachian Tales: Folktales from the Africa-American Tradition. The book giveaway begins Monday, September 26 and continues while supplies last.
The book giveaways and the Ohio Writers Series author visits are made possible by Humanities Grants for Libraries, an initiative of the American Library Association (ALA) made possible with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) through the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021.
The Library’s Ohio Writers Series series is a collaboration with Mount Vernon Arts Consortium, the Kenyon Review, Kenyon College Office for Community Partnerships, and Ariel-Foundation Park.
Reservations are encouraged, but not required for this program. Please email knoxwrites1@gmail.com or call (740) 392-BOOK ext 259 for more information.
Teen Writing Program: Creative Classroom with Jamie Lyn Smith
Teen Writers! On Monday, October31 at 7:00pm the Public Library of Mount Vernon and Knox County and BreakBread Literacy Project present an online fiction workshop with Jamie Lyn Smith.
So many beloved novels and short stories feature animated characters: talking cans of beans, forks and spoons; a group of farm animals staging a rebellion;cowardly lions and frightened scarecrows; a chorus of mosquitos creepily narrating three generations of life in Zambia; a spider that saves a pig from being butchered at the County Fair. What happens to our fiction if we stop thinking of “magic realism” as “magical”and just think of it as “realism”?
In this workshop, participants will complete writing prompts that explore ways to create compelling fiction that reimagines and realizes the “inanimate” and“animal” in vivid, full color.
This workshop is open to participants age 13-18, and advance registration is required.
For more information, visit www.knox.net, email knoxwrites1@gmail.com, or call (740)392-2665 ext. 259.
*This workshop is made possible through the Library's collaboration with BreakBread Literacy Project, and support from the Poetry Foundation.
So many beloved novels and short stories feature animated characters: talking cans of beans, forks and spoons; a group of farm animals staging a rebellion;cowardly lions and frightened scarecrows; a chorus of mosquitos creepily narrating three generations of life in Zambia; a spider that saves a pig from being butchered at the County Fair. What happens to our fiction if we stop thinking of “magic realism” as “magical”and just think of it as “realism”?
In this workshop, participants will complete writing prompts that explore ways to create compelling fiction that reimagines and realizes the “inanimate” and“animal” in vivid, full color.
This workshop is open to participants age 13-18, and advance registration is required.
For more information, visit www.knox.net, email knoxwrites1@gmail.com, or call (740)392-2665 ext. 259.
*This workshop is made possible through the Library's collaboration with BreakBread Literacy Project, and support from the Poetry Foundation.
Local Literary Partners
Please support our local literary partners.
The Kenyon Review is a literary magazine based in Gambier, Ohio, US, home of Kenyon College. The KR frequently hosts a diverse roster of world-reknowned authors in its reading series https://www.kenyonreview.org/reading-series-2018-19/ and hosts a free literary festival each November. https://www.kenyonreview.org/programs/literary-festival/
Paragraphs Bookstore is the pride of downtown Mount Vernon and hub for avid readers. Paragraphs offers classes for elementary and middle-school age writers in collaboration with The Kenyon Review. Paragraphs also sponsors readings and author visits.
Founded in 1929, the Ohioana Library Association collects, preserves, and celebrates Ohio literature and other creative endeavors. We are a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit literary organization serving the state of Ohio. For more information, visit www.ohioana.org.
We are a family run business of 23 years. We provide excellent service with years of experience and knowledge. We sell books and specialty toys for people of all ages.