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aare-writers to give readings Oct. 18 in Lewes
comrhunity College. She also is a
part-time sales associate at Re-
hoboth wine store Bin 66. In her
role as freelance editor for aspir-
ing writers as the executive di-
rector of the Rehoboth Beach
Writers' Guild, a job that entails
teaching creative writing classes,-
organizing events and contests,
leading Free Writes for kids each
summer and more; and as a pub-
lished.novelist with two award-
winning novels under her belt,
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Fischer knows well how frag-
mented a life can become. It is
the focus, too, of her third novel,
from which she will read. 'A
Seas;hfPerfect Happiness" is
about the "many lives we all have
inside of us - all the people we
once were, all the people we
drea m of becoming - and the ter-
rible .ost both when we try to
bury those different selves," she
Three Delaware writers, poet
Anne Agnes Colwell, novelist
Maribeth Fischer, and essayist
Sue Towers will give readings
from 7 to 8 p.m., Monday, Oct. 18,
that explore the idea of finding,
collecting, arranging and rear-
rahgin" g fragments into beautiful
w'nbles - whether they be a poem
or a conection of poems, a novel
an. award-winning essay, even a
life. The event will be held at
Beseme restaurant on Second
Street in Lewes.
Colwell's first
,full-length col-
lection of po-
ems, "Believing
Their Shad-
ows:' just came
out from Word
Press in Sep-
tember. Talking
about the long
says.
say,w
colleq
Beacl
uneal
the 1;
about
of on
whos,
journ
Sue Towers'
essay, "At the
Rainbow's
End," the recent
recipient of the
Florence Colt-
man Lewes
Public Library
Award, was the
impetus for the
readies
theme. The es-
ch on the surface is about
:ting artifacts on Lewes
t in 2004 when dredging
thed a sunken ship from
00S, is at heart an essay
collecting the lost artifacts
.'s own history. Towers,
. background is that of a
dist, enjoys documenting
A. Colwell road to publica-
tion, she says,
"It was a manuscript that I
arranged and rearranged, always
looking for the perfect whole, the
moment when each poem had
found its best place." Colwell is a
professor of English at the Uni-
versity of Delaware, a writer of
fiction and nonfiction, a wife and
mother, a runner and CrossFit fa-
, and a student of classical
guitar. "Sometimes it seems like
there isn't enough time in the day
for all of the pieces of me," she
says, "but I need family and
friends and music and words and
all of it, all of it, to be me."
Fischer de-
scribes her life,
too, as one of
constantly pick-
up pieces -
"because I keep
dropping
them,,' she
laughs. She is an
adjunct instruc-
t.Fischer tor at the Uni-
• versity of
Delaware, Wilmington, and in
tlAcademic Challenge Pro-
gram at Delaware Technical &
peopWs stories. One of her roles
at .B.ebe Medical Center is to
write me quarterly Beacon mag-
azine I the annual Cancer Sur-
vivorS' Calendar and maffy press
• releases. Towers enjoys captur-
ing the Words of patients, doc-
tors, .urses and others as she
share the unique, human story
of a 1 )cal hospital in a historic
t6wn Where families have lived
Moose Lodge Road, Camden.
The f rst-come, fLrst-serve event
will f ature 50 designer wedding
gowr; available for a minimum
donat on of $100. There is no ad-
missi(in cost. Proceedg from the
even! will help support Miss
Delax are with preparation costs
for the Miss America 2011
Pageaat , For more information,
contact Rhonda at 302-2224652,
or rmartell1961oo.com.
I00iefly ))
Wedding gown sale to
benefit Miss Delaware
Brides-to-be are invited to join
MS Delaware 2010 Kayla Mar-
tel, for a Wedding Gown
Blowout Sale from 1 to 330pax,
Sarday, Oct. 16, at the Camden-
Wyoming Moose Lodge, 760
for generations.
The reading, made possible by
Delaware Division of the Arts
Grant awarded to Fischer in
2009, is itself a story of picking
up the pieces. If not for the
grant, Fischer would have been
financially unable to finish the
novel from which she will be
reading nor would she have been
able to continue her work as the
executive director of the Re-
hoboth Beach Writers' Guild, an
organization that offers nearly 25
free writing opportunities to
adults and children in Sussex
County and creates numerous
opportunities for others to col-
lect the pieces of their own sto-
ries and weave them into com-
pelling and beautiful wholes•
The reading will be held in
honor or another woman, jour-
nalist and entrepreneur Tammy
Starr Brittingham, who in Sep-
tember 2009 read a powerful and
heartrending essay titled "Not
Dying Today," based on posts
she'd written on a blog by that
name that she started upon
learning she had ovarian cancer.
The blog represented Britting-
ham. 's determination to pick up
the pieces of a life interrupted by
a terminal diagnosis and its of-
ten-devastating treatments, mad
mold those pieces into some-
thing whole and hopeful.
Formore information go to re-
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