Bren McClain, winner of the 2016 Gold Medal for Best Novel-in-Progress in the William Faulkner - William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition for her manuscript "Took," will read from her first novel, "One Good Mama Bone," today from 5 to 7 p.m. at Star Line Books, 1467 Market St. An excerpt from the just-published novel was a finalist in the 2012 Faulkner - Wisdom competition. She is a two-time winner of the South Carolina Fiction Project (2003 and 2007) and received the 2005 Fiction Fellowship awarded by the South Carolina Arts Commission. Set in 1950s rural South Carolina, "One Good Mama Bone" chronicles Sarah Creamer's quest find to her maternal instinct after she is left to care for a boy borne from her husband's affair with her best friend. For more information, call 423-777-5629.
Bren McClain, winner of the 2016 Gold Medal for Best Novel-in-Progress in the William Faulkner - William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition for her manuscript "Took," will read from her first novel, "One Good Mama Bone," today from 5 to 7 p.m. at Star Line Books, 1467 Market St.
An excerpt from the just-published novel was a finalist in the 2012 Faulkner - Wisdom competition.
She is a two-time winner of the South Carolina Fiction Project (2003 and 2007) and received the 2005 Fiction Fellowship awarded by the South Carolina Arts Commission.
Set in 1950s rural South Carolina, "One Good Mama Bone" chronicles Sarah Creamer's quest to find her maternal instinct after she is left to care for a boy borne from her husband's affair with her best friend.
