ANNE BARNHILL

from North Carolina

WHEN: Thursday, February 21, 2008 
at 7:00 pm

WHERE: Osterneck Auditorium

COST: FREE

Anne C. Barnhill’s work has appeared in a number of literary magazines and anthologies including The Antietam Review, and RACING HOME: New Stories from Award-Winning North Carolina Writers.  Other publications include the story, “Washing Helen’s Hair,” from the Grammy-nominated anthology, Grow Old Along With Me, and “The Swing,” from Generation to Generation.  She has received an Emerging Artist Grant, a Regional Artist Grant and a writer’s residency at the Syvenna Foundation in Texas.  She has been selected as a Blumenthal Reader twice and her stories have won several awards, including the Porter Fleming Fiction Award from the Augusta, Georgia Arts Council.

Barnhill publishes nonfiction with a variety of newspapers and magazines including  Our State Magazine: Down Home In North Carolina.  Her book reviews have appeared in The Notre Dame Review and Main Street Rag  as well as the Winston Salem Journal and the Greensboro News and Record.

 Her memoir, At Home in the Land of Oz: Autism, My Sister and Me, from Jessica Kingsley Publishers in London, tells the story about what it was like growing up with her autistic sister, Rebecca.  Reviewer Fred Chappell says, “It’s a story filled with suspense, humor, empathy, frustration, triumph and heartbreak.  Anne Barnhill writes economically, cleanly and frankly and her words will go to the heart of every reader.  From her pages I learned that endurance can be the most important component of courage, and I learned in a most entertaining way.”