2017
Pulpwood Queens Annual Book Festival
Me with Kathy Murphy
The Pulpwood Queens Annual Book Festival & Girlfriend weekend is a yearly gathering of authors and readers from book clubs around the world, hosted by the amazing Kathy L. Murphy.
In the 2017 Annual Book Festival Event, Authors dressed as Pat Conroy and served dinner to all the Readers. Some of the proceeds went to supporting the Pat Conroy Literary Center in Beaufort, SC.
Tim Monzingo/The Daily Sentinel
Each Author is encouraged to dress in costume for the Big Hair Ball. Mary Ann was among a group of renegade Authors who headlined the next morning in the local paper.
“Dressed as a surly band of miners, Pulpwood Queens members bellied up to the bar for candy cigarettes and wine during the Great Big Ball of Hair Ball at Austin Hall Saturday night. The event closed out a weekend-long celebration and convention of new and established authors.”
2016
Awards for Ladies in Low Places
Mary Ann Henry was awarded the First Place Category for Women’s Fiction/Short Story Collections from Chanticleer Reviews for Ladies in Low Places. She attended the Chanticleer Reviews Annual Awards Gala April 30, 2016 in Bellingham, Washington to accept her blue ribbon. Chanticleer Reviews chooses from thousands of entries by authors all over the world to name its Best Books of the Year.
Writer in Residence
Mary Ann enjoyed the 2016 West Virginia Winter Writer’s Residency award at New River Gorge National Forest. The Writer’s Residency was a 10 minute walk from spectacular mountain scenery. Alone on a mountain top, there was no choice but to finish a manuscript, titled, The Spring House, looking forward to its publication.
Fun Photos
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- With Caroline Leavitt: A big fan of Caroline Leavitt’s writing, when Mary Ann and Caroline met, they were both wearing a necklace with an antique compass pendant. They found they had so many other things in common. Serendipity in the literary world strikes again.
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- As part of a promotional effort for the Pulpwood Queens Biggest Book Club Festival in the World, Mary Ann gave away t shirts inscribed with the title of one of the short stories in Ladies in Low Places. The shirts were popular. Who knew women everywhere had a secret fantasy to be a 2nd Runner Up in a beauty contest?
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- Mary Ann Henry receives a blessing from literary giant, Pat Conroy maestro of Southern Fiction.
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- Mary Ann Henry often posts about Solo & Adventure Travel for Women on her Author page. Go to her Mary Ann Henry Author on Facebook page to learn wonderful and fun facts such as How To Pack for 30 Days in a Tiny Backpack
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- With Patti Callahan Henry: Both authors write about the Lowcountry, but sharing the last name is coincidental. Or is it?