Hawaii Writers Guild EVENTS Calendar
DECEMBER EVENTS
VIRGINIA FORTNER WILL READ AT KONA STORIES ON DECEMBER 3
Virginia Fortner, a Hawi resident for seven years, has written since she first learned to scribble in first grade. She has published poetry, essays, memoirs, short stories, newspaper articles, 10-minute plays, and fiction, At the Edge, and biography, A Design of His Own. She's midway into China Conundrum, another page-turner begun while teaching English in the Mideast.
At Kona Stories Virginia will be reading from A Design of His Own. A Design of His Own is about Hawaii resident and surfboard designer Michael Eaton. As a boy, Eaton grew up near the Pacific, learned the value of work at an early age, stuck to his principles, got some lucky breaks, knew a smile always helped, and brings few regrets to this late stage of life. His shaper’s touch came after driving hotrod Yellow Peril across Route 66, encountering pirates outside Singapore, gliding California valleys, surfing waves, and going solo with his business. There’s wisdom, humor, and more than a little adventure in the tales of his remarkable life, mostly told in Mike’s words after illness robbed him of ability to write. Join us in supporting Virginia by attending the Words and Wine Reading at Kona Stories Bookstore Tuesday, December 3 beginning at 6 p.m. |
Event date:
Tuesday, December 3, 2019 - 6:00pm to 8:30pm
Event address:
786831 Alii Drive
Suite 142
Kailua Kona, HI 96740
Tuesday, December 3, 2019 - 6:00pm to 8:30pm
Event address:
786831 Alii Drive
Suite 142
Kailua Kona, HI 96740
THE FINAL WRITERS' VOICES AUTHORS READING OF THE YEAR WILL BE ON DECEMBER 4 IN WAIMEA
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The spirit of the season will not be forgotten when the Hawaii Writers Guild presents its December Writers’ Voices reading on Wednesday, December 4 from 6-7:30 p.m. at the Thelma Parker Memorial Library, 67-1209 Mamalahoa Hwy. in Waimea.
Writers’ Voices is an evening of original readings by Guild members. Readers at the December Writers’ Voices will include Donald J. Bingle, Nancy Baenziger, Steven Foster and Louise Riofrio.
Donald Bingle will lead off with a seasonal piece titled “Season’s Critiquings,” an imagined rejection letter to the author of “Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer.” Bingle, a new member of Hawaii Writers Guild, is a prolific author of novels and short stories in the thriller, mystery, science fiction, fantasy, horror, steampunk, and memoir genres. An attorney and author from the Chicago area, Bingle has recently added a Hawaii address to his resume.
Nancy Baenziger, who splits her time between the mainland and Hawaii, and her
intellectual endeavors between neurobiology and poetry, will be back on the Big Island with an offering of her Christmas and other seasonal poetry including works from an emerging book entitled Citizens in which various elements of her home area, the Columbia Gorge, both animate and inanimate, speak their minds.
Louise Riofrio, recently returned from a scientific conference in Paris, will read from her nonfiction book, The Speed of Light, which presents the hypothesis that the speed of light is slowing down. She will also discuss her new work-in-progress regarding cell size.
Steven Foster, author of Spirit of an Eagle, will read a scene entitled “Eagle Memories” about a dispirited Vietnam veteran’s remembered boyhood encounter with an eagle that brought him joy.
