Posted on June 17, 2024
Join the Our State Book Club with Wiley Cash for a special event featuring award-winning North Carolinian author Michael Parker and his poignant novel I Am the Light of This World. Whether you’re a longtime fan of Michael Parker’s work or discovering his writing for the first time, come together with fellow readers, celebrate the power of storytelling, and explore the power of the imagination in September’s book club title. Wiley Cash will lead a discussion with Michael, followed by a time for audience questions and a book signing. Books will be available for purchase on-site. The event will be held on Monday, September 23rd at 6:00 PM in the UNCG Alumni House, 404 College Avenue. For directions and more information about parking: https://idcapps.uncg.edu/access/access.html?id=Alumni House. For more information and to purchase tickets, please visit ourstate.com/bookclub or call Laura Caroline Rick at (800) 948-1409.
WILEY CASH is the New York Times bestselling author of four novels and the founder of This Is Working, an online creative community. He’s been a fellow at Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony, and he teaches fiction writing and literature at the University of North Carolina-Asheville. He lives in North Carolina with his wife, photographer Mallory Cash, and their daughters.
MICHAEL PARKER is the author of eight novels – Hello Down There, Towns Without Rivers, Virginia Lovers, If You Want Me To Stay, The Watery Part of the World, All I Have In This World, Prairie Fever, and I Am the Light of This World–and three collections of stories, The Geographical Cure, Don’t Make Me Stop Now and Everything, Then and Since. He has received fellowships in fiction from the North Carolina Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as the Hobson Award for Arts and Letters, the North Carolina Award for Literature and the 2020 Thomas Wolfe Prize. His work has been anthologized in the Pushcart and New Stories from the South anthologies, and he is a three-time winner of the O.Henry Award for short fiction. For nearly thirty years, he taught in the MFA Writing Program at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
