Experience the Generative Power of Creative Writing Communities with Kate Woodworth at Park City Library
Seven women, including Kate Woodworth (author of Little Great Island), from Summit and Salt Lake Counties formed a community to support their practice and passion for creative writing. This June, 27 years later, they are reuniting in Park City to celebrate and share how one small community of women writers has given rise to 15 books and new creative communities of students and writers from Nevada to Alabama, Oregon to Massachusetts. In this panel discussion, the writers will discuss ways to inspire synergy in creative communities and in individual writers.
This panel includes Kate Woodworth, Susan Sample, Kristen Case, Heather Hirschi, Wendy Rawlings, Dorothy Solomon, and Dawn Marano.
EVENT INFORMATION:
June 21st – 2pm-3:30pm
Park City Public Library
1255 Park Ave
Park City, UT
About Little Great Island:
ON LITTLE GREAT ISLAND, CLIMATE CHANGE IS DISRUPTING BOTH LIFE AND LOVE
After offending the powerful pastor of a cult, Mari McGavin has to flee with her six-year-old son. With no money and no place else to go, she returns to the tiny Maine island where she grew up—a place she swore she’d never see again. There Mari runs into her lifelong friend Harry Richardson, one of the island’s summer residents, now back himself to sell his family’s summer home. Mari and Harry’s lives intertwine once again, setting off a chain of events as unexpected and life altering as the shifts in climate affecting the whole ecosystem of the island…from generations of fishing families to the lobsters and the butterflies. Little Great Island illustrates in microcosm the greatest changes of our time and the unyielding power of love.
About Kate Woodworth:
Kate Woodworth is the author of the novel Racing Into the Dark (EP Dutton, 1989), hailed as “A compelling exploration of mental illness” by Booklist and as an “auspicious debut” by Publishers Weekly. Her short stories have appeared in Cimarron Review, Western Humanities Review, Shenandoah and other literary journals. A retired medical writer in addition to fiction writer, she has received numerous awards and recognition for her writing, including a Pushcart Prize nomination, multiple Utah Arts Council and Dalton Pen Communication Awards, and an International Association of Business Communicators finalist recognition. She received her MFA from Boston University.
