Authors, poets headline Writers' Fest

“Contemporary Writers with a Global View” is the title of this year’s Writers’ Fest, which will take place March 28 and 29 in the North Lake Community Library, Room L-240.

Under the direction of English professor Dr. Nancy Castilla, who is director of the North Lake Creative Writing Program, the annual readings are sponsored by the Liberal Arts Teaching and Learning Center.

This year’s lineup includes Moumin Quazi, a poet and short fiction writer from Tarleton State University; James Ragland, an award-winning reporter, editor and columnist for The Dallas Morning News; essayist and poet Carol Coffee Reposa from San Antonio College; and author and poet Jerry Bradley, dean of graduate studies at Lamar University in Beaumont.

Other instructors with NLC’s Creative Writing Program will present a program Thursday evening, March 29 at 7:15 p.m. Those instructors are Brian Cordell, John Sonny Williams, and Shelly Woodcox- Unruh.

Writers’ Fest is a free program open to all students, faculty, staff and the community.

For more information about the program, call Castilla at 972-273- 3413.