Award-winning author Ethel Morgan Smith will offer a free reading hosted by Morgantown Poets, 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 15, 2009, at Monongalia Arts Center, 107 High St., Morgantown, W.Va. Smith is the author of “From Whence Cometh My Help: The African American Community at Hollins College.”

For more background, click on her WVU link…

Ted Webb tells me her work has appeared in The New York Times, Callaloo, African American Review, ThatMinorityThing.com, and other national and international outlets. She has won numerous awards, has been a Fulbright Scholar and a visiting scholar at Bread Loaf Writers Conference and elsewhere. He says her novel-in-progress, “The House of Flowers,” placed second for the West Virginia Writers, Inc. Annual Writing Competition, and her play for the stage, “African Violets,” placed third in the same contest.

Her personal Web site is Ethelmorgansmith.com.

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