Southern Souls Author Visit
Name:
Southern Souls Author Visit
Date:
October 15, 2015
Time:
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM EDT
Event Description:
Southern Souls Author Visit:
Aida Rogers is a writer and editor whose feature journalism has won regional and national awards. Except for 3 years in Georgia, she has lived and worked in the Palmetto State and is currently at her alma mater, the University of South Carolina.
Ray McManus is the author of 3 books of poetry. His fourth book, "Punch," is forthcoming. Ray's poetry has appeared in the Blue Collar Review, Barely South, The Pinch, Hayden's Ferry, and moonShine Review. Ray is the creative writing director for the Tri-District Arts Consortium in SC. He teaches creative writing, Irish literature, and Southern literature at the University of South Carolina, Sumter. www.raymcmanuspoetry.com
Tim Driggers' humor column, the Fosnick Report, appeared for years in the "Lexington Dispatch-News" and the "Richland Northeast News Weekly." He and Aida Rogers are coauthors of "Stop Where the Parking Lot's Full," A guidebook to South Carolina's favorite restaurants. He practices law in his native Lexington.
Ed Madden is the author of 3 books of poetry. His book, "Signals" (2008), won the SC Poetry Book Prize. His work appears in Best New Poets 2007, The Book of Irish American Poetry, and Hard Lines: Rough South Poetry. He is the literary arts editor for "Jasper Magazine."
R. Mac Jones is an assistant professor of English at the University of SC. A former editor of "Yemassee," Jones, writing as Raster Jones, is the author of poetry appearing in the "James Dickey Review," "Town Creek Poetry," and other publications.
Aida Rogers is a writer and editor whose feature journalism has won regional and national awards. Except for 3 years in Georgia, she has lived and worked in the Palmetto State and is currently at her alma mater, the University of South Carolina.
Ray McManus is the author of 3 books of poetry. His fourth book, "Punch," is forthcoming. Ray's poetry has appeared in the Blue Collar Review, Barely South, The Pinch, Hayden's Ferry, and moonShine Review. Ray is the creative writing director for the Tri-District Arts Consortium in SC. He teaches creative writing, Irish literature, and Southern literature at the University of South Carolina, Sumter. www.raymcmanuspoetry.com
Tim Driggers' humor column, the Fosnick Report, appeared for years in the "Lexington Dispatch-News" and the "Richland Northeast News Weekly." He and Aida Rogers are coauthors of "Stop Where the Parking Lot's Full," A guidebook to South Carolina's favorite restaurants. He practices law in his native Lexington.
Ed Madden is the author of 3 books of poetry. His book, "Signals" (2008), won the SC Poetry Book Prize. His work appears in Best New Poets 2007, The Book of Irish American Poetry, and Hard Lines: Rough South Poetry. He is the literary arts editor for "Jasper Magazine."
R. Mac Jones is an assistant professor of English at the University of SC. A former editor of "Yemassee," Jones, writing as Raster Jones, is the author of poetry appearing in the "James Dickey Review," "Town Creek Poetry," and other publications.
