       
The 21 st
Annual
Old
Central City Days
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Old Central City Days |
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June
15, 16 & 17 |
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Friday,
Saturday, Sunday |
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Vendors: Old Central City Days is now taking
applications for antique markets
and food booth vendors at their annual festival
held in the thriving antique district at 14th
Street West in Huntington, WV, home to good
food, museums, flower and gift shops, a farmer's
market, fine art, and the Quilt Trail. The
festival will be held this year on June 15-17
and will include musicians, writers, cloggers, a
Word & Song Cafe, Manchester House Tea, and
Celebrity Readers. Please contact us:
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The
Word & Song Café
Join us this summer at the Word &
Song Café atop the beautiful gazebo
at 14th Street West in Huntington,
West Virginia, during Old Central
City Days.
 Sit back and enjoy a cup
or two of tea and delicious pastries
from Betty Schoew’s Manchester House
Tea Catering and listen to
The
Harmonica Club, award-winning
writers, and performers, Saturday
and Sunday, June 16 and 17, 2012,
from 1-3pm. Our featured
readers for Saturday include short story writer
and author of Still Life With Plums,
Marie Manilla, O’Henry Award winner
and novelist,
John VanKirk, poet and
author of Lake Effect,
Laura Treacy
Bentley, playwright and freelance writer,
Diane Wellman, and a
recitation by two-time state winner
of the Poetry Out Loud
competition,
Jasmine Lewis.
Our featured
readers for Sunday include novelist and author of
Emily’s Shadow,
Christina St. Clair, novelist and author
of underthebridge.com,
Paul Martin,
debut novelist and author of
Flowertown,
Sheila Redling, and another
recitation by two-time state winner
of the Poetry Out Loud
competition,
Jasmine Lewis.
Celebrity
readers include Susan
Nicholas Korstanje, Morning
News Anchor at WSAZ-TV, radio personality
and newscaster, Bill
Cornwell, Commissioner
Bob Bailey,
Joanna Sexton Figlia,
owner of Hattie and Nan's antique
shop, and
Sylvia Thompson,
Quilt Trail artist and author.
Signing authors include
Carter Taylor Seaton, an
award-winning author ( Father’s
Troubles) and figurative
sculptor.
Admission is $3.00 or three cans of
food. All profits will be donated to
a local food bank. Your
ticket entitles you to tea and a
pastry served by our Celebrity
Servers and an afternoon of
entertainment plus a chance to win
door prizes at the end of the
program each day. (You must be
present to win.) Arrive
early for limited seating on the
gazebo stage!
Both featured
and signing authors will be on hand
to discuss and sign their books.
 Huntington
native Marie Manilla frequently
peppers her fiction with local landmarks: Frostop Drive-In, Dwights,
Neirman’s Pharmacy, curvy Spring Valley Drive. A graduate of the Iowa
Writers’ Workshop, her award-winning stories have been collected in Still
Life with Plums (WVU Press, 2010). Her novel, Shrapnel, also set in
Huntington, won the Fred Bonnie Award for best first novel and will be
available in August 2012. Her website is
www.mariemanilla.com. |
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by Laura Treacy Bentley |
John
Van Kirk’s
short stories have
earned him the O. Henry Award
(1993) and The
 Iowa Review
Fiction Prize (2011). His work
has been published in The New
York Times Magazine, The Hudson
Review, The Iowa Review, West
Branch, Kestrel, The Sonora
Review, and Ellery Queen Mystery
Magazine, as well as several
anthologies. His novel,
Vossimilitude, is set to be
published in 2013 by Red Hen
Press. He teaches writing and
literature at Marshall and is a
long-time member of the
Huntington Harmonica Club. |
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by Rick Haye |
Laura
Treacy Bentley is a
poet, fiction writer, and book
editor (“Conversations”) for
 WV Living Magazine.
She grew up in the West End of
Huntington and spent many
summers at the Olympic Pool. Her
work has appeared in the United
States and Ireland, and her
first book of poetry,
Lake Effect,
was published in 2006. One of
her poems, “Keepsake,” was
recently chosen by the editors
of O Magazine
and is featured on
Oprah’s website. Visit Laura’s
website:
www.lauratreacybentley.com |
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by Sandee Lloyd |
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Diane Wellman lives
in Huntington and works as a
freelance writer. She is the
author of several works of
fiction, including short
stories, plays, and screenplays.
Her flash fiction was nominated
for the 2009 Best of the Net
Awards, and her play The Hen
House was performed as part of
Women’s History Month at
Marshall University, where she
received an MA in English. Visit
her at
www.dianewellman.com |
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Photo
by
Lacy Johnson |
 Jasmine
Lewis is the Poetry
Out Loud State Champion for both
2009 and 2010. She is currently
a Junior at Marshall University
majoring in Communication
Studies with a focus on
Organizational Communication and
minoring in Business Management.
Jasmine's favorite instrument is
the violin, and she loves guinea
pigs as pets. |
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Photo
by Laura Treacy Bentley |
 Award
winning author,
Christina St.
Clair, born and raised in
London, England, has written
articles, essays, and many
novels for young people. She
will be reading from Terrible
Toes (available on Amazon
Kindle) about an incident from
her childhood. Her website is
www.christinastclair.com |
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 Though
born in Los Angeles,
Paul
Martin,
novelist and author of
underthebridge.com,
has lived
and written in Huntington, WV,
so long that he considers these
mountains and valleys both his
only real home and inspiration.
His fiction draws its breath
from the people, small towns,
even the geography of this
region, and he hopes his work
honors that debt. He understands
that many of you might own an
iPad, but doesn't want you to
ever forget the sensual pleasure
of cracking the spine on a great
new book. |
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 You
may remember
Sheila Redling
from her fifteen year stint on
the morning show at WKEE-FM in
Huntington. Still an avid
traveler, language geek and wine
lover, she now writes under the
name SG Redling and is anxiously
awaiting the release of her
debut thriller,
Flowertown, from
Thomas & Mercer, June 19, 2012.
Find her on Facebook and Twitter
at SG Redling. |
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Photo
by Jessica Marie St. James |
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