Author Talk with Simone Poirier-Bures
Venue: Blacksburg Library, Blacksburg
Organizations: Simone Poirier-Burres
Date: Sunday, February 24, 2019
Time: 2:00 - 3:00 PM
Event Types: Speaking Engagements
Cost: Free
Description:
Blacksburg Library presents an Author Talk with Simone Poirier-Bures on Sunday, February 24, 2019.

Simone Poirier-Bures will read from her new book "Threads in the Acadian Fabric", an historical memoir that tells the story of nine generations of her ancestors who lived in Nova Scotia (Acadia) from the 1640’s to the 1960’s.

Simone Poirier-Bures is a local writer who has published two books of fiction and an award-winning memoir of Greece. Her newest book "Threads in the Acadian Fabric" is a history / memoir which tells the stories of nine generations of her ancestors from the 1640s to the 1960s.

She is the author of three previous books "Candyman", a novel set in her native Nova Scotia, "That Shining Place", an award-winning memoir of Crete and "Nicole", short stories and memoir about growing up female and Acadian. Her work has been published in numerous journals and anthologies, including "We Write For Our Own Time: Selected Essays From 75 Years of the Virginia Quarterly Review". She teaches writing at Virginia Tech.

Books will be available for purchase and signing after the event.

To view the event flyer, visit: https://i.imgur.com/VVKJQTk.jpg.

For more information, visit: http://www.montgomery-floyd.lib.va.us/ or https://www.facebook.com/pages/Blacksburg-Library/152248358735 or call 540-552-8246.
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