Tuesday, September 1, 2015

First Thursday September 3, 2015 6 p.m. at the GoggleWorks with York's Poet Laureate Christine Lincoln

Welcome to Reading the award-winning Poet Laureate of York, PA

The Phenomenal Christine Lincoln

First Thursday Poetry, September 3rd at 6:00 pm

The GoggleWorks Cafe', First Floor

Open Mic

Liz Stanley
Berks Bards
zilabets@hotmail.com


Bio

Christine
Lincoln writes fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. She is the
award-winning author of Sap Rising (Random House), a novel of
international acclaim. She was the first author to represent the United
States in South Africa’s annual Year of the Writer Celebration. She has
appeared on NPR, The Oprah Winfrey Show, and has been featured as a
“Phenomenal Woman” in O: The Oprah Magazine. Her stories have appeared
on stage at Symphony Space and Word Theatre, read and performed by Don
Cheadle, Gary Dourdan, and Lizan Mitchell. Just recently her short
story, Bug Juice, was chosen for a project with Audible Books and Word
Theatre. She is also a recipient of the Sophie Kerr Literary Prize.
Christine has been hailed as one of the rising, new voices of
contemporary fiction and she is currently at work on her novel A
Generation Comes. She is founder of the R.L. Coombs Fellowship, a
writing fellowship and residency that will award its first scholarship
in 2016 to an emerging woman writer of color or diverse ethnic
background. Her monthly article, “The Writers Voice” can be found online
with York Daily Record.


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