Upstate
SC Sisters in Crime is pleased to announce that Anna Katherine Freeland and
Carol Young Gallagher, friends and co executive directors of the Writers Block
Project. at Perry Correctional Institution, will be speaking to us about the
project at our meeting on August 3rd.
The
Writer’s Block Project is a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization that hosts
advanced creative writing classes to inmates in SC maximum security prisons and
publishes literary collections of their work. Didn’t See it Coming is a literary collection, published by the
Writers Block Project featuring fiction, non-fiction and poetry written by men
in the WBP workshop at Perry correctional institution. Our SinC Chapter first
learned about The Writer’s Block Project from Scott Lewis, Warden at Perry who
spoke to us back in 2016.
Anna Katherine Freeland is a Past President of Greenville’s Emrys Foundation, a non-profit that strives to forge a healthy community
of poets, writers, readers and storytellers. She enjoys reading and writing
poetry and essays. Anna grew up in Greenville and is a running coach for Fleet Feet, working
with runners training for all distances. She also loves to run long distances,
especially in faraway places.
Carol Young Gallagher is a longtime Emrys
member, Board member and past president of the Board. She grew up in
Anderson, attended Agnes Scott College, where she majored in English and
received her Master’s degree in Education at Wheelock College in Boston, MA. She
worked at the Children’s Program at Marshall I. Pickens Hospital and is also trained
in Family Mediation and teaching Peer Mediation.
The
monthly Upstate SC Sisters in Crime meeting is scheduled for Thursday, August 3,
at The Runway Café, 21 Airport Rd, Greenville, S.C. Be there at 6:15 p.m.
to meet our guests and enjoy chapter fellowship. Supper should be served at
6:30. The talk will begin right after new and old business at 7 p.m. Both
dinner and the meeting are open to the public.
In
order for the Runway Café to speed service, dinner orders must be emailed by
noon the day of the meeting. If you can't dine with us, we would still like to
know you plan to attend so we can be sure you have a seat. If possible,
please join us for dinner as our dinner orders help to ensure we can book our
meeting room for free. To see the special menu click on the Advance Order Menu
tab at right. Please e-mail your order to Ellis Vidler t ellisvidler1@gmail.com.
If
you place an order and do not attend or fail to cancel by noon, you will be
charged for the meal. And like always, we'll enjoy it.
