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Writers Road Show connects readers to authors in four rural libraries and venues

Image courtesy of Northwestern Regional Library.

Image courtesy of Northwestern Regional Library.

The Writers Road Show returns for a second year starting Sunday, bringing authors to four rural area libraries.

The Road Show debuted last year. This edition will have more authors, events and venues, says Joan Sherif, director of the Northwestern Regional Library.

But the focus remains on connecting writers to readers in Surry, Stokes, Alleghany and Yadkin counties.

“We're so glad to have authors who like to meet their readers and can talk with them about what they're writing about, both about the process and the content,” she says.

Sherif says most of the writers have a connection to North Carolina. They include author Dale Neal, who grew up in Winston-Salem and is now based in Asheville.

The Writer’s Road Show coincides with National Library Week.

Paul Garber is a Winston-Salem native and an award-winning reporter who began his journalism career with an internship at The High Point Enterprise in 1993. He has previously worked at The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The News and Record of Greensboro and the Winston-Salem Journal, where he was the newspaper's first full-time multimedia reporter. He won the statewide Media and the Law award in 2000 and has also been recognized for his business, investigative and multimedia reporting. Paul earned a BA from Wake Forest University and has a Master's of Liberal Arts degree from Johns Hopkins University and a Master's of Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He lives in Lewisville.

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