Olympic Peninsula Authors to launch new anthology

SEQUIM — Olympic Peninsula Authors will host a launch party at 6 p.m. Wednesday for its third anthology, followed by three sessions of readings by most of the 31 authors in the book.

The launch party for “In the Words of Olympic Peninsula Authors, Volume 3” will be at Olympic Theatre Arts, 414 N. Sequim Ave.

The free party is open to the public. Beverages may be purchased and light refreshments will be served. The anthology will be available for purchase at $20, tax included.

The 325-page book includes short stories, prose and poems by authors who are award-winning, published and/or newly recognized for their talent. All the selections in the book involve life on the North Olympic Peninsula in one way or another.

Editors Heidi Hansen and Linda B. Myers agree that “this bright, talented group is sure to deliver many entertaining events.”

Attendees can ask questions of all the authors and have their books signed.

Following the book launch, three sessions of oral excerpts by the authors are planned. All of the authors live on or write about the Peninsula.

All the readings will be from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Here is the schedule of readings and the authors participating.

• Oct. 1, Port Angeles Library, 2210 S. Peabody St. — Stephen Workman; Bethany Loy; Elizabeth K. Pratt; Vykki Morrison; Jan Thatcher Adams, MD; Marlene Shinn Lewis; Louise Lenahan Wallace and Myers.

• Oct. 8, Port Angeles Library — Poets Dianne Knox, Kirsti Lee, Judith Duncan, Abigail Jones, Harley Davidson, John Victor Anderson, Michael Medler, Gordon Anderson, Derek Huntington, Eva McGinnis and Craig Andrews.

• Oct. 17 at the Sequim Library, 630 N. Sequim Ave. — Jerry Koch; Grace Rosen; Hansen; Joan Enoch, MD; Virginia Timm; Terry Sager; Jonathan Langdon; John Norgord; Mike Nolan and Ruth Geiger.

For details, contact OlympicPeninsula Authors@gmail.com.

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