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BOOKMARKS Presents:
A Conversation with Sue Monk Kidd
with Support from Salem College
Sue Monk Kidd | Moderator | Emcee
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Best-selling novelist Sue Monk Kidd shares her collection of early inspirational writings---tracing her growth as she
experienced the joys, difficulties, and rewards of being daughter, wife, mother, nurse, and spiritual seeker. This collection of
non-fiction writings will provide insight into this popular writer, delighting fans of her international bestselling novels
The Secret Life of Bees and The Mermaid Chair.
The bestselling author of The Secret Lives of Bees, The Mermaid Chair and Firstlight will share her insights during “A Conversation with Sue Monk Kidd,” in her only North Carolina appearance on her eight-city national tour for Penguin's release of the paperback edition of Firstlight. The conversation is moderated by Cameron Kent, Author and Emmy Award-Winning News Anchor for WXII-12 News. Forsyth County Public Library Director Sylvia-Sprinkle Hamlin will emcee. The audience will have the opportunity to ask questions. You may also submit questions for Ms. Kidd via info@bookmarksbookfestival.org. A dessert reception and booksigning will follow the program for all ticketholders. Books will be on sale in the Fine Arts Center.
In every life there are defining moments when one’s heart begins to open, when the realization of who one is begins to dawn.
These moments may be huge---or they may be small and subtle. But each leaves a person forever changed. In Firstlight,
bestselling author Sue Monk Kidd invites readers to accompany her as she reveals many of her own "firsts"---an invitation she
hopes will help point readers to their own moments of awakening.
Cameron Kent is the Emmy Award winning News Anchor for WXII-12 News, where he's been for 22 years. He's been nominated for 10 Emmy Awards, and won an Emmy for his reporting on the Pentagon after 9/11.
Cameron also enjoys creative writing, and has had movies he's written appear on NBC, HBO, Lifetime, and at the American Film Institute. He also has two novels, "Make Me Disappear" and "When the Ravens Die" among his credits.
He's active with Samaritan Ministries, the March of Dimes, the Boy Scouts, and he serves on the Board of Directors for Habitat for Humanity.
Cameron is a graduate of Wake Forest University. He and his wife, Sue, have two children, and are active members of Highland Presbyterian Church in Winston-Salem.
Sylvia Sprinkle-Hamlin’s library career has included positions as children’s librarian at the Free Library of Philadelphia, Instructional Media Center Director for the Philadelphia Public Schools, and Assistant Director/Public Service Librarian at Winston-Salem State University. After joining the Forsyth County Public Library System in 1979, and serving as Assistant Director, and then Associate Library Director, she was named Library Director — the first African American and first female to be named Library Director in the history of the Forsyth County Public Library System.
She is a member of the American Library Association, Public Library Association, Southeastern Library Association, North Carolina Library Association, National Forum for Black Public Administrators and Black Caucus of the American Library Association. She chaired the first Black Caucus of the American Library Association conference of African American Librarians in 1992, and is a past President of the caucus.
Additionally, she is involved in numerous community programs and initiatives. She serves on the Board of Directors of the internationally acclaimed National Black Theatre Festival founded by her late husband Larry Leon Hamlin and the North Carolina Black Repertory Company.
Her dedication and excellence has been recognized by many community, educational, professional and governmental organizations. She was the first recipient of the Annette Lewis Phinazee Award, given for significant contributions in promoting African American Literature for Children. She received the 2005 Legacy Award given for preservation of Black History and Culture through the literary arts and the 2005 Women in Leadership Award given by the Winston-Salem Convention and Visitors Bureau and the City of Winston-Salem for her significant contributions to the betterment of Winston-Salem through professional achievement and community service.
Ms. Sprinkle-Hamlin received a B.S. degree in Education from Winston-Salem State University and her MLS degree from Clark Atlanta University in Atlanta, Georgia. She has done further studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of Maryland and Cheyney State University, Cheyney, Pennsylvania.
Admission by ticket only. To reserve and/or charge a ticket, call
336-721-2855 before
5 p.m. Tuesday October 2. Beginning at 6:15 p.m., $22 general admission
tickets can be bought with cash or check at the door, at Salem Fine Arts Center.
Tickets are nonrefundable.
$22 – General admission (Doors open at 6:15 p.m. A dessert reception and booksigning will follow the program.)
$95 – Premier admission (This private reception with Ms. Kidd begins at 5:30 p.m. and features heavy hors d’oeuvres; a
booksigning; a paperback copy of Firstlight; reserved premier seating at the event; and limited VIP parking. $57 is tax
deductible). All proceeds benefit BOOKMARKS, Winston-Salem’s Festival of Books. Please note, tickets are non-refundable.
Presented with support from Salem College.
Hanes Auditorium is located inside of the Salem Fine Arts Center.
Directions to the Salem Fine Arts Center can be found on the Salem College website.
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