Greg Howard, Elizabeth Kilcoyne, and Helene Dunbar discuss their latest books with fellow author Ashley Blooms.
No purchase or registration is required to attend this program at the Kentucky Book Festival on October 29. Seating is first-come, first-served. This program will take place in the KY Book Festival “Writer’s Room” inside Joseph-Beth Booksellers in Lexington.
Thanks to our Writer’s Room sponsors, the McClure Family Fund and the Spalding University Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing!
Author + Speaker Lineup
Ashley Blooms is the author of “Every Bone a Prayer,” which was long-listed for the Crook’s Corner Book Prize and which NPR said “bears within its pages striking beauty and strangeness in equal measure.” Her second novel, “Where I Can’t Follow,” will be published by Sourcebooks in February 2022.
Elizabeth Kilcoyne is an author, playwright, and poet, born and raised in Kentucky. She currently lives in Lexington, Kentucky. Her first novel, Wake the Bones, a YA Southern Gothic, is forthcoming from Wednesday Books July 12th, 2022.
Called the “queen of heartbreaking prose” by Paste Magazine, Helene Dunbar is the author of WE ARE LOST AND FOUND (Sourcebooks, September 2019), THE PROMISE OF LOST THINGS (July 2022), and PRELUDE FOR LOST SOULS (August, 2020) as well as BOOMERANG, THESE GENTLE WOUNDS, and WHAT REMAINS.
Greg Howard was born and raised in the South Carolina Lowcountry where his love of stories blossomed at a young age. Originally set on becoming a songwriter, Greg followed that dream to Nashville, Tennessee, where he spent years producing the music of others before eventually returning to his childhood passion of writing stories.
