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Rockbridge Regional Library and MidMountain will present “Adventures in Publishing” on Tuesday, June 25, at 6 p.m. at the library with MidMountain Summer 2024 Literary Fellows Deborah Ager, Bill Beverly, and Maizie Somerville.
Ager and Beverly are a married literary couple based in the Washington, D.C., metro area and Somerville is an emerging Richmond-based poet and author.
Tuesday’s event will include short readings by the authors followed by a discussion led by the library’s Debi Ratliff and MidMountain curator Andrea “River” Peterson, as well as an audience question-and-answer session.
“If you’re interested in learning more about getting published or publishing yourself, this is a wonderful opportunity to talk to those in the know and to become acquainted with a valuable local resource,” said a spokesperson.
Authors will also sign works after the talk as well as have limited books and art for sale.
Ager founded the poetry magazine 32 Poems Magazine in 2003 and co-edited the anthologies “Old Flame: 10 Years of 32 Poems Magazine” and “The Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Poetry.” Her nonfiction writing is published in Narratively, The Tablet, and Modern Loss, and she’s currently at work on a crime fiction novel.
Beverly is a writer and English professor from Hyattsville, Md.; he teaches at Trinity University in Washington, D.C. His first novel “Dodgers” won numerous prizes, including the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the CWA Golden Dagger.
Somerville is the creator behind Motherwort Press, a small press company in its infancy, and is the author of several poetry chapbooks. Themes of their writing include the experiences of chronic illness, religious deconstruction, nature mysticism, personal evolution, and the intersectionality of joy and grief.
Peterson is a former reporter at the Washington Post and investigative nonprofits, and now curates MidMountain, a 501(c) (3) nonprofit organization and arts collective located at 338 Arnolds Valley Road. - MidMountain Summer Music Fellows Americana band Buffalo Rose, Cole Sullivan and Marina Lopez will perform at MidMountain Retreat on Friday, June 21, at 7 p.m. following a 6 p.m. community potluck. A $10-20 donation is suggested, but no one will be turned away due to lack of funds.
MidMountain also recently announced a free open call with a July 29 deadline for an October zine, art show, festival, and fall fellowship focused on using marginalized perspectives to reclaim the Appalachian Murder Ballad genre. Up to 10 creatives will be offered $100 for accepted Zine submissions thanks to a grant from MidAtlantic Arts’ Central Appalachian Living Traditions program and up to a dozen will be offered free lodging at Mid-Mountain Retreat from Oct. 1 through Oct. 13.
For more information, send an email to river@midmountain. org.
