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Samuel Snoek-Brown and John Sibley Williams Reading

08/10/2019 - 2:00pm

Join local fiction author Samuel Snoek-Brown and Portland author John Sibley Williams for a night of short stories and poetry at King's Books.

Samuel Snoek-Brown teaches and writes in the Pacific Northwest. He’s the author of the short story collection There Is No Other Way to Worship Them, the Civil War novel Hagridden and flash-fiction chapbooks Box Cutters and Where There Is Ruin. He also works as a production editor for Jersey Devil Press, and he lives online at snoekbrown.com. His work has appeared in dozens of literary magazines, including Bartleby Snopes, Eunoia Review, Fiction Circus, Red Fez, and Timberline Review. He’s the recipient of a 2013 Oregon Literary Fellowship and has been shortlisted in the Faulkner-Wisdom competition, twice for short fiction and once for his novella. He was also a finalist in the 2013 storySouth Million Writers Award. In 2015, he was a contributor to the Sewanee Writers’ Conference.

John Sibley Williams is the author of As One Fire Consumes Another (Orison Poetry Prize, 2019), Skin Memory (Backwaters Prize, 2019), Disinheritance, and Controlled Hallucinations. An eleven-time Pushcart nominee, John is the winner of numerous awards, including the Philip Booth Award, American Literary Review Poetry Contest, Phyllis Smart-Young Prize, The 46er Prize, Nancy D. Hargrove Editors' Prize, Confrontation Poetry Prize, and Laux/Millar Prize. He serves as editor of The Inflectionist Review and works as a literary agent. Previous publishing credits include: The Yale Review, Midwest Quarterly, Sycamore Review, Prairie Schooner, The Massachusetts Review, Poet Lore, Saranac Review, Atlanta Review, TriQuarterly, Columbia Poetry Review, Mid-American Review, Poetry Northwest, Third Coast, and various anthologies. He lives in Portland, Oregon.

Event address: 
King's Books
218 St Helens Ave
Tacoma, WA 98402
Hagridden By Samuel Snoek-Brown Cover Image
$14.95
ISBN: 9780989173797
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Columbus Press - August 19th, 2014

Disinheritance: Poems By John Sibley Williams Cover Image
$11.99
ISBN: 9781627201315
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Apprentice House - September 1st, 2016

Controlled Hallucinations By Diane Kistner (Editor), John Sibley Williams Cover Image
$14.95
ISBN: 9781938853227
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Futurecycle Press - April 24th, 2013