Part literary reading. Part talk show. Part cocktail party.

Featuring the staff from the Ossabaw Island Writers’ Retreat, including:

David Poyer specializes in novels and memoir. His nearly forty books include literary novels set in Pennsylvania, bestselling sea novels, science fiction, and historical novels. His latest novel is The Cruiser, published by St. Martin’s Press.

Lenore Hart is the author of  the novels Waterwoman, Ordinary Springs, Becky, The Raven’s Bride, and, as Elisabeth Graves, Black River and Weirwood, in English and foreign-language editions. Her children’s and young adult books are T. Rex at Swan Lake, The Treasure of Savage Island, and the forthcoming Still Life, With Dragons.

Her stories, memoirs, articles, poetry, and lyrics have won awards including the B&N Discover, and have been featured on Voice of America and PBS’s syndicated “Writer to Writer”. She’s also on the faculty of the Norman Mailer Center and The Ossabaw Island Writers Retreat, and is the fiction editor of Northampton House Press.

In addition to teaching English at Armstrong Atlantic University, Tony Morris is the director of the Ossabaw Writer’s Retreat and managing editor of Southern Poetry Review. His poetry has appeared in Spoon River Review, River Styx, Meridian, Mississippi Review, among many others. His work has been anthologized in books such as Southern Poetry Anthology: Georgia and Georgia Poetry Anthology. His forthcoming book, Pulling at a Thread (Main Street Rag), will be hitting finer bookstores in May of this year.

Beverly Donofrio, recently dubbed a master memoirist by the Daily Beast, has published three memoirs: the New York Times bestseller, Riding in Cars with Boys, which was made into a popular movie; Looking for Mary, a Barnes and Noble Discover pick, began as an NPR documentary; and Astonished, called “astonishing,”by more than one reviewer, is being transformed by Bev into a play with music.

Her three children’s books, Mary and the Mouse, the Mouse and Mary; Where’s Mommy? and Thank You Lucky Stars are much praised; her NPR documentaries are perennially rebroadcast; and her personal essays have appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Cosmopolitan, and many others.

Neil Shepard’s sixth book of poetry, Hominid Up, has just been published by Salmon Poetry Press of Ireland (January 2015). His five previous books include a chapbook, Vermont Exit Ramps (Big Table Publishing, 2012), and four full collections of poetry:

(T)ravel/Un(t)ravel (Mid-List Press, 2011), This Far from the Source (Mid-List, 2006), I’m Here Because I Lost My Way (Mid-List, 1998), and Scavenging the Country for a Heartbeat (First Book Award, Mid-List Press, 1993). His poems appear online at Poetry Daily, Verse Daily, and

Poem-A-Day (from the Academy of American Poets), as well as in several hundred literary magazines.

Part literary reading. Part talk show. Part cocktail party.

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