Local writing/Anderson Park: ‘Stand Up’ by Maxwell Kumahor
Maxwell Kumahor's "Stand Up" is one of the winners in the inaugural Anderson Park Short Story Contest, a competition for middle school students.
Nancy Star
Montclair’s Halfway There reading series adds to literary life
Halfway There reading series features writers with New Jersey
Culture in brief: Halfway There series Monday, Jan. 22
Halfway There, Montclair’s authors’ reading series, returns to the Red Eye Cafe on Monday, Jan. 22.
The evening will feature Kim Coleman Foote, Evie Shockley, Bud Smith and Nancy Star. Doors open at 6:30 p.m., readings begin at 7 p.m. and will
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‘Desert Friend': short story winner in Montclair Literary Festival
By GRETA POGLINCO
The following is the first place-winning short story in the first Montclair Literary Festival, held earlier this year.
When it’s so hot you could cook an egg on a sidewalk it decides to appear. It’s shaky air in the shape of a shaky person. When I can...
Books: in ‘Sisters One, Two Three’ secrets run in families
By GWEN OREL
orel@montclairlocal.news
There is a different reality of family for every person in it, says Nancy Star, author of “Sisters One, Two, Three.”
“Who’s to say which memory is right or wrong?” the Montclair author asked. “I have one sister, she had ...