Afternoon, Everyone! We have the following announcement to share in behalf of Angelle Barbazon from JKSCommunications Literary Publicity. She is inquiring about the possibility of a FPA producer covering the following event as part of their show or as an upcoming special. Angelle provided a lot of helpful information for producers that might be interested in covering this event. Please review the information below and contact Angelle if you have any questions. --- Hello! The winner of the 2014 Washington Writers Publishing House Fiction Prize is coming to Fairfax, Virginia, on Sept. 12 to celebrate the release of her debut novel, Rush of Shadows. (If Fairfax Public Access producers are interested in announcing Catherine Bells appearance, I can also set up an interview or Q&A.) Rush of Shadows is a deeply emotional story about two women, one white and one Native American, who form an unlikely friendship in 19th century California when tensions were flaring between the two cultures. A press release with more details is copied below. EVENT DETAILS: Catherine Bell, solo reading at the Fall for the Book Festival Sept. 12 at 4:30 p.m. at the main festival tent: George Mason University 4400 University Dr. Fairfax, VA fallforthebook.org Catherine can discuss the personal story behind her novel, the role of diversity, her recent honor from the Washington Writers Publishing House and more. You can read more about Catherine in the bio copied below. I can email you her headshot and book cover upon request. Thanks, and I look forward to hearing from you! Angelle Barbazon JKSCommunications - Literary Publicity angelle@jkscommunications (574) 350-4501 angelle@jkscommunications --- CATHERINE BELL’S DEBUT RUSH OF SHADOWS TAKES READERS TO 19TH CENTURY CALIFORNIA Award-Winning Novel Publishing this October from Washington Writers WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rush of Shadows (October 15, Washington Writers’ Publishing House) evokes the clash between natives and settlers in 19th century California through the unlikely friendship of two women, Mellie, white, and Bahé, Native American. As settlers fence the land and drive off game, Native Americans are starved, enslaved, and even shot for fun. Yet Bahé helps Mellie safely through childbirth, and Mellie’s warning saves a Native American village from a massacre perpetrated by her white neighbors. Even after Bahé is driven to seek safety in prostitution, the women manage to feed, doctor, and teach each other. Tough-minded and lyrical, Rush of Shadows brings to life the human dimensions of a tragic conflict which corrupted the winners and left the losers to haunt the landscape as shadows. Bell teaches literature and writing at Washington International School. She holds degrees from Harvard and Stanford and has lived in Boston, Paris, Brasilia, and Nova Scotia, as well as Northern California, where she discovered the germ of this story, and Washington, D.C. Her short stories have appeared most recently in Green Hills Literary Lantern, Sixfold, The Northern Virginia Review (Prose Award 2014), Solstice, and South Carolina Review. With this first novel, Catherine Bell takes her place among the vanguard of writers reconstructing an American paradigm that is truer, grittier, sadder, and ultimately more satisfying than the myths weve crafted to expunge our historys unsavory passages. The storys unsentimental denouement is uplifting in its honesty. Along the way, Bell makes us think long and hard about how this nation was built and at what moral cost. A good, deep read, by a steely White woman unafraid to be fair to all parties. Mvto! Dr. Darnella Davis, Native American artist (Creek), PhD in Indian education policy. Washington Writers’ Publishing House will publish Rush of Shadows, winner of their 2014 Fiction Prize, in October 2014. WWPH, a nonprofit cooperative press that specializes in poetry and fiction, has published some of the area’s best-known writers. Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Henry Taylor called WWPH “among the most successful recent literary experiments in the country.” MEET CATHERINE BELL Catherine Bell grew up in a New England family with a sense of its past as distinguished and its culture superior, as chronicled in many of her short stories. An early reader, she found in fiction that penetrating experience of other peoples lives that opens a wider world. The Winsor School, Harvard, and Stanford prepared her to recognize good writing and thinking. She credits work as a gardener, cook, cashier, waitress, and schoolbus driver with teaching her how to live in that wider world. She has also worked as a secretary, freelance writer, and therapist, served as a teacher in the Peace Corps, and taught in inner city schools. She has lived in Paris, Brasilia, Nova Scotia, Northern California, and Washington, D.C. Culture clashes, even within families, are often subjects of her fiction. She has published stories in a number of journals, including Midway Journal, Coal City Review, Green Hills Literary Lantern, Sixfold, Solstice, and South Carolina Review. Her story Among the Missing won The Northern Virginia Reviews 2014 Prose Award. She researched and wrote Rush of Shadows, her first novel, over a period of 20 years after she married a fourth-generation Californian and fell in love with his home territory, the Coast Range. The bright sunburned hills, dark firs, clear shallow streams, and twisted oaks were splendid, but the old barns and wooden churches and redwood train station didnt seem old enough. Where was the long past? Where were the Native Americans? There was only the shadow of a story passed down by her husband’s grandmother late in life. Born in 1869, she grew up playing with Native American children whose parents worked on the ranch her father managed. One day the Army came to remove the Native Americans and march them to the reservation, and that was that. She was four years old, and she never forgot. Bell lives with her husband in Washington, D.C. and visits children and grandchildren in California and Australia. As a teacher at Washington International School, she loves reading great books with teenagers
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