MONTICELLO, ARK. (February 6, 2017) — In observance of March as National Reading Month, the Monticello Branch Library, the Alex Foundation and the Southeast Arkansas Education Service Cooperative will host a Southeast Arkansas (SEARK) Literary Arts Program Thursday March 9, 2017. The program will be from 6 p.m. – 8 p.m. at the library, 114 W. Jefferson Street in Monticello.
Slated as a community wide literary arts program, the free event will have three established authors from Arkansas who have made an impact in the world of published works: Deborah Mathis, Mark Spencer and Tamara Hart Heiner. The moderator for the literary arts program, Deborah Robinson, is also an author.
Mathis began her career in journalism in Little Rock as a reporter with the Arkansas Democrat Newspaper specializing in legal and education reporting. She later worked as general assignment reporter at KTHV-TV in Little Rock; an anchor and reporter for WTTG-TV in Washington, D.C specializing in politics and social issues; an assistant news director for KARK-TV in Little Rock managing 34 news professional news coverage for four daily television broadcast; and as a special assignment reporter and anchor for KATV-TV also in Little Rock. She has appeared on national and international TV shows, including The Oprah Winfrey Show, MSNBC’s Hardball with Chris Matthews, MSNBC’s Buchanan and Press, CNN’s Inside Politics, CNN’s Capital Gang Sunday, CNN’s Turkey, CNN’s Both Sides with Rev. Jesse Jackson, PBS’ Frontline, PBS’ Evening Exchange, PBS’ Inside Washington, PBS’ This Is America with Dennis Wholly, C-Span’s Journalists' Roundtable, C-Span’s Washington, ABC’s Good Morning America, America's Black Forum, Tavis Smiley Show, Ananda Lewis Show and FOX News’ The O’Reily Factor.
Mathis is a best-selling author of Yet A Stranger: Why Black Americans Still Don’t Feel at Home; What God Can Do; and Sole Sisters: The Joys and Pains of Single Black Women.
Spencer is the author of 10 books including the nonfiction A Haunted Love Story; The Ghosts of the Allen House (Which is the basis for episodes of five TV shows); The novel The Weary Motel and the short story collection Trespassers. His work has received four national awards including the Faulkner Award for Fiction. The Dean and Professor of English, School of Arts and Humanities at the University of Arkansas at Monticello, Spencer received his BA in English Literature from the University of Cincinnati, his MA in Creative Writing from Bowling Green State University and his PhD D in English from Oklahoma State University.
Slated as a community wide literary arts program, the free event will have three established authors from Arkansas who have made an impact in the world of published works: Deborah Mathis, Mark Spencer and Tamara Hart Heiner. The moderator for the literary arts program, Deborah Robinson, is also an author.
Mathis began her career in journalism in Little Rock as a reporter with the Arkansas Democrat Newspaper specializing in legal and education reporting. She later worked as general assignment reporter at KTHV-TV in Little Rock; an anchor and reporter for WTTG-TV in Washington, D.C specializing in politics and social issues; an assistant news director for KARK-TV in Little Rock managing 34 news professional news coverage for four daily television broadcast; and as a special assignment reporter and anchor for KATV-TV also in Little Rock. She has appeared on national and international TV shows, including The Oprah Winfrey Show, MSNBC’s Hardball with Chris Matthews, MSNBC’s Buchanan and Press, CNN’s Inside Politics, CNN’s Capital Gang Sunday, CNN’s Turkey, CNN’s Both Sides with Rev. Jesse Jackson, PBS’ Frontline, PBS’ Evening Exchange, PBS’ Inside Washington, PBS’ This Is America with Dennis Wholly, C-Span’s Journalists' Roundtable, C-Span’s Washington, ABC’s Good Morning America, America's Black Forum, Tavis Smiley Show, Ananda Lewis Show and FOX News’ The O’Reily Factor.
Mathis is a best-selling author of Yet A Stranger: Why Black Americans Still Don’t Feel at Home; What God Can Do; and Sole Sisters: The Joys and Pains of Single Black Women.
Spencer is the author of 10 books including the nonfiction A Haunted Love Story; The Ghosts of the Allen House (Which is the basis for episodes of five TV shows); The novel The Weary Motel and the short story collection Trespassers. His work has received four national awards including the Faulkner Award for Fiction. The Dean and Professor of English, School of Arts and Humanities at the University of Arkansas at Monticello, Spencer received his BA in English Literature from the University of Cincinnati, his MA in Creative Writing from Bowling Green State University and his PhD D in English from Oklahoma State University.
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