✨AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT✨
‼️ Tune in on Thursday, March 14th at 7pm EDT for another #HEStorical event! 🤩 This time, our spotlight will be aimed at the incredible Lesley Bannatyne, recipient of the 2018 Bosque Literary Journal fiction prize, 🏅the 2019 Tucson Festival of Books Literary Award first place for fiction 🥇 and theghoststory.com 2020 summer fiction prize! 🏆 Lesley’s debut short story collection Unaccustomed to Grace was published in 2022 by Kallisto Gaia Press. 📚
💡Learn all about the short story and how to interweave complex narrative threads! You won’t want to miss this deep-dive into Bannatyne’s work ✍️ Join us for a craft discussion on narrative and character, conversation about how humor and horror function together in short story, and good company! 🙌
🚨 Lesley is an alumni of the HES Creative Writing and Literature ALM! 👩🏫 As a freelance journalist, Lesley has covered stories ranging from druids in Massachusetts to relief workers in Bolivia. She writes extensively on popular culture, and her most recent non-fiction book, Halloween Nation, was short-listed for a Bram Stoker Award 🎃 Her work has been published in the Boston Globe, Smithsonian, Christian Science Monitor, and Zone 3, Sequestrum, Pangyrus, Craft, and other literary magazines. 📖
⁉️Do you have any burning questions you’d like us to ask Lesley during our spotlight? 🤔 Comment them below ⤵️ or email us at [email protected] 📧 and we’ll ask her for you!
⬇️The link to RSVP for this Zoom event can be found below. See you there!
🔗 RSVP http://tinyurl.com/CWLSSlesleybannatyne
🔗 Find out More and Buy Her Book Here:
https://www.iskullhalloween.com/