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Moveable Feast featuring Betty Joyce Nash
Date and Time
Tuesday Sep 26, 2023
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM EDTTuesday, September 26, 2023
11:00am - 1:00pm
Location
The Village House
13089 Ocean Highway
Building E
Pawleys Island, SCFees/Admission
$35 per person. Click here to register online!
Contact Information
843-235-9600
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Description
The Moveable Feast offers monthly luncheons featuring presenters on a broad range of cultural topics (music, art, drama, history, and some literature, mostly by local and CLASS-published authors). Each is individually priced.
BettyJoyce Nash
(Everybody Here is Kin)
A MacDowell fellow in 2013, BettyJoyce won the Fitzgerald prize in 2015. Her MSJ is from Medill Journalism (Northwestern); her MFA in fiction, from Queens University of Charlotte. Her fiction has been recognized with fellowships from the Ragdale Foundation, the Tyrone Guthrie Center in Ireland, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and VCCA-France. She teaches fiction at WriterHouse in Charlottesville; she's also taught writing in college and the Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail. Though based now in Virginia, she has real "marsh-rat creds" with deep roots in South Carolina (grew up in Columbia, lived for a time in Charleston, vacationed regularly on Pawleys, as well as St. Simons in Georgia), all of which you can feel in the pages of "Everybody Here is Kin." On Boneyard Island, Georgia, where everyone's weirdly kin, 13-year-old Lucille is marooned when her mother goes AWOL with an old flame, leaving Lucille with only her father's ashes, two half-siblings, and Will, the misanthropic manager of the island's only motel. The abandonment kills hope of Lucille's promised snorkeling trip to the Florida Reef before ocean heat kills the coral and illusions she's harbored about her mother's sanity. "Everybody Here Is Kin" explores the lives of this sinking family, the island community, and fears of exposing wounds, old and new, when natural disaster forces them to trust, and depend on, strangers.
