Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 17:13:50 -0400
From: “Marjorie Hudson
Subject: Performance with Susan Ketchin on Friday night!
Dear friends – This is something entirely new for me – my friend Susan and I are mingling words and music about Accidental Birds! Ever heard “Quiche Woman in a Barbacue Town?” You will! Y’all come! — Marjorie
Words & Music of the Piedmont ~ Susan Ketchin & Marjorie Hudson
Friday, May 25, 7 – 9pm
The Joyful Jewel in Downtown Pittsboro
Marjorie Hudson’s stories in Accidental Birds of the Carolinas evoke life in fictional towns reminiscent of Bynum, Pittsboro, and Fearrington Village. Hudson and Singer/Songwriter Susan Ketchin, author of
The Christ-Haunted Landscape and a forthcoming memoir of music, have taken
life in the South and Hudson’s stories as inspiration and created a
reading-with-songs performance that weaves music into narrative and
narrative into music. Hudson says she surprised herself by writing a song
about Roger the three-legged dog. Susan will perform original music inspired
by images in ‘Accidental Birds’ and the natural music of the southern
landscape around us.
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Joyful Jewel – Pittsboro, NC. art from the heart.
Marjorie Hudson <http://www.pen-ne.org/> Pen/Hemingway 2012 Honorable Mention author of Accidental Birds of the Carolinas
NPR Interview with Frank Stasio
<http://www.ncarts.org/artist_page.cfm?ser=47168&num=46291&type=ind> 2012
North Carolina Arts Council Fellow
See review in <http://issuu.com/eastcarolina/docs/nclr_2012-online-final-hyperlinks/44> NC Literary Review
See article on News
<http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/04/29/v-print/2031652/chatham-county-autho
rs-book-of.html> & Observer Book Page
Website: <http://www.marjoriehudson.com/> www.marjoriehudson.com
BLOG: <http://www.kitchentablewriters.wordpress.com/>
www.kitchentablewriters.wordpress.com
2012 Events:
April – June 2012 – Kitchen Table Writing Workshop at Rosemary House, 8
sessions for $125 – Pittsboro, NC
April – June 2012 – Kitchen Table Writing Workshop at McIntyre’s Books, 8
sessions for $125 – Fearrington Village, NC
April 1 – Awards Ceremony, Pen/Hemingway Award – Boston, MA
April 14 – Featured Author, Workshop Leader,
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Carolina Writers Conference – Wadesboro, NC
April 17 – Young Authors Celebration, Keynote Speaker, Fearrington Village,
NC
May 1 – “Mosaic Writing” Talk, Reynolda Manor Library – Winston-Salem, NC
May 2 -Lunch with the Author at Barnhills Books, 11:30 am – Winston-Salem,
NC
May 6 – Kitchen Table Writers Performance at McIntyre’s Fine books, 2 pm,
Fearrington Village, NC
May 8 – NPR Affiliate WUNC-FM Interview on The State of Things with Frank
Stasio (12 noon and 9 pm)
May 10 – Reading at The Regulator, 7 pm – Durham, NC
May 18-19 – Featured Author, Blue Ridge Bookfest – Hendersonville, NC
May 25, 10:15 – 12 noon – Wonderland Book Club, Cameron Village Library –
Raleigh, NC
May 25 -Music and Stories from Accidental Birds – with songwriter Susan
Ketchin, Joyful Jewel, 7 pm – Pittsboro, NC
July 27-28 -North Carolina Writers Conference, honoring Janet Lembke,
Comfort Inn – New Bern, NC
Sept. 25 – Carolina Meadows, reading at 2 pm – Chapel Hill, NC
More CCCC Creative Writing Program Classes
To Register, Call 919-545-8044
June 16 – Saturday Workshop- Memoir: Writing the Times of Your Life
9:30 am – 4:30 pm
Come ready to write! We’ll put pen to paper and generate pages about pivotal
moments in your childhood, coming of age, and transitions-the richest
sources of material for memoir. You’ll jump over blocks, get useful
feedback, and leave with home assignments and recommendations for expanding
and structuring your material, whether toward a goal of submitting, writing
a memoir, or keeping for family records.
July 14 – Saturday Workshop – Strategies for the Writing Life I
9:30 am – 4:30 pm
A new session of Hudson’s popular workshop that helps new writers get their
bearings in the writing world, helps intermediate writers refine and act on
goals–from personal accomplishment to publication–and helps all
participants find communities of support for their work.
Fall:
Class: Memoir: Works in Progress
Dates: 7 Wednesdays, August 22 – October 3
Time: 6 – 8:30 pm
Memoir is the intimate art, and this class will create a community of
support for refining works in progress and generating new material. You will
learn craft techniques to help you structure your work, tell your deepest
stories, and move toward completing a piece, whether for publication or
family records.
Workshop: Fiction Craft: Beginnings and Endings
Date: Saturday, Aug. 25, 2012
Time: 9:30 am – 4:30 pm
You’re working on a fiction story, but it’s not quite there. What absolutely
must be in the first paragraphs? What must be in your ending? And how in the
world do you decide? There are so many options, there’s so much to say in a
few words. The delicate balancing act of beginnings and endings is one of
the most powerful tools in the fiction writer’s toolbelt. We’ll explore how
master writers do it, and try some exercises to refine your own work. Bring
a draft you are working on.
Marjorie Hudson is author of Searching for Virginia Dare, a North Carolina
Notable Book, and Accidental Birds of the Carolinas,a PEN/Hemingway
Honorable Mention for Distinguished First Fiction. Her writing has been
published widely in literary journals and has won many honors, including a
2012 NC Arts Council Fellowship. She has been editing and coaching writers
for 30 years, and now leads writing classes at colleges, conferences,
festivals, cafes, and her own Kitchen Table Workshops. See her blog:
<http://www.kitchentablewriters.wordpress.org/>
www.kitchentablewriters.wordpress.org