Mary Jane Ryals’ new poetry collection was launched in style on March 8, at Word Traffic Books bookstore in Tallahassee, FL. Ryals read from The Moving Waters, enthusiastically assisted by the Black Dog Java Girls poetry group, and the Spheres jazz band.
Photos are here: www.kitsunebooks.com/events.html
Leonard Nash’s short story collection, You Can’t Get There from Here, has just won the Silver Medal for General Fiction in the 2007 Florida Book Awards.
The competition, an annual awards program that recognizes, honors, and celebrates the best Florida literature published in the previous year, is coordinated by the Florida State University Program in American & Florida Studies and co-sponsored by the Florida Center for the Book, the State Library and Archives of Florida, the Florida Historical Society, the Florida Humanities Council, the Florida Literary Arts Coalition, the Florida Library Association, “Just Read, Florida!,” the Governor’s Family Literacy Initiative, the Florida Association for Media in Education, the Florida Center for the Literary Arts, Friends of the Florida State University Libraries, and the Florida Chapter of the Mystery Writers of America.