Jennifer Niven will give The William M. Hendricks Memorial Reading at 7 p.m. Tuesday at Salem Fine Arts Center at Salem College. Her topic will be "Juggling Fiction, Nonfiction and a TV Pilot." Her books include The Ice Master and Ada Blackjack, which made the top ten lists of Entertainment Weekly and the American Booksellers Association's Book Sense program, respectively. Her first novel, Velva Jean Learns to Drive, based on her Emmy Award-winning film, was published in July. Her memoir, The Aqua-Net Diaries: Big Hair, Big Dreams, Small Town, will be published in early 2010. She is also working on a TV show for Warner Brothers based on The Aqua-Net Diaries.
The Salem College Center for Women Writers is sponsoring Niven's talk. Admission is free.
For more information, call 917-5313 or see www.salem.edu.
Workshop on writing memoirs to be Saturday
The writer Anne Clinard Barnhill will present a workshop this weekend on "Fearless Memoir Writing." She is the author of At Home in the Land of Oz: Autism, My Sister, and Me and What You Long For, a collection of short stories.
Barnhill will share samples from published memoirs and lead participants in writing exercises and other hands-on activities.
The class will meet from 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday at the interim offices of the Yadkin Arts Council, 208 N. Jackson St., Yadkinville. Admission is $15.
For more information, call 679-2941 or see www.yadkinarts.org.
Tuskegee Airman to discuss, sign book
Alexander Jefferson will discuss and sign copies of his book, Red Tail Captured, Red Tail Free: Memoirs of a Tuskegee Airman and POW, from noon until 2 p.m. Saturday at Special Occasions bookstore, 112 N. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive. Admission is free.
Jefferson served in the 332nd Fighter Group during World War II, which escorted Allied bombers on flights over enemy territory. On his 19th mission over Germany, Jefferson was shot down and spent a year in Nazi prison camps. After the war, he became an educator. In 2008, he was among the surviving Tuskegee Airmen to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor.
For more information, call 724-0334.
Piedmont Slam is set for Thursday at Krankies
The Piedmont Slam will meet at 8 p.m. Thursday at Krankies Coffee, 211 E. Third St. There will be an open-mike session, followed by the competition. Marisa Estelrich, an Argentine author and translator, will be the featured artist.
Admission is $3, free for those younger than 18. For more information, see http://piedmontslam.art.officelive.com/default.aspx.
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