Join local author Cary Holladay in this history-inspired creative writing workshop!
This program is part of a series The Book as Art and Self Expression: Creating Your Story which is designed to bring in professional artists, writers and musicians as instructors to the public at our libraries. The series of programs, if attended in totality, will lead participants through creating and binding their own book and then writing and illustrating it. These programs are informed and inspired by the revolutionary voices of our founding fathers.
This program is FREE and open to the public |Ages 16+
Registration is required and space is limited. To register for this program, click here.
If your plans change, please use the cancel feature to make your spot available for someone on the waiting list. These programs are being repeated on different dates/times at our other library locations so if this time no longer works for you, please check if one of the other sessions may meet your needs.
Participation in the prior programs is not required, but those who have done so should bring their book to each session.
This project was supported, in part, by the Virginia Commission for the Arts and the Virginia American Revolution 250 Commission (VA250) and is being held as a partnership between the Orange County Public Library and the Arts Center in Orange.
About our Instructor
Cary Holladay grew up in Virginia and Pennsylvania. She earned an A.B. at The College of William and Mary and an M.A. at the Pennsylvania State University, where she studied fiction writing with the novelists Robert C. S. Downs, Thomas Rogers, and Paul West, and poetry with John Balaban and John Haag.
She has published eight volumes of fiction as well as a pictorial history of Glen Allen, Va. Over 100 of her stories and essays have appeared in journals and anthologies, including Alaska Quarterly Review, Arkansas Review, Black Warrior Review, Blackbird, Chattahoochee Review, Cimarron Review, Cincinnati Review, Ecotone, Epoch, Five Points, Florida Review, Georgia Review, Glimmer Train, Gulf Coast, The Hudson Review, Idaho Review, Kenyon Review, Kestrel, Los Angeles Review, Missouri Review, New Letters, New Stories from the South: The Year's Best, Oxford American, Prairie Schooner, The Sewanee Review, Shenandoah, Southern Humanities Review, The Southern Review, Tin House, Virginia Quarterly Review, and West Branch.
Her awards include an O. Henry Prize and fellowships from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the Tennessee Arts Commission, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Her work is represented by Liz Darhansoff of Darhansoff & Verrill.
Cary Holladay is a Professor of English, Emeritus, at the University of Memphis, where she was named a First Tennessee Professor and served as director of the creative writing program. She is on the faculty of the low-residency MFA program at Converse University. She and her husband, the poet and fiction writer John Bensko, live in Rapidan, Virginia.