On Friday, February 3rd, the First Friday
Reading Series will present a fiction reading by J.D. Hibbitts and Scott
Thomason at 7 p.m. at the Porch Coffee House & Café in Lake Charles. The
reading series, co-sponsored by the Arts and Humanities Council of Southwest
Louisiana, is held on the First Friday of each month at the Porch and is
designed to promote local and regional poets and writers.
Hibbitts, originally from Southwest Virginia, is currently
an MFA candidate in McNeese State University’s fiction program. After
completing his service commitment to the United States Air Force, Hibbitts
received his BA from Emory & Henry College in Virginia. His work has appeared
in Sugar House Review, Ellipsis, and The Sierra Nevada Review,
among others. Thomason is a native of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and holds
a BA and MA in American history from the University of North Carolina at
Greensboro. He is also an MFA candidate at McNeese in fiction.
The
Porch is located at 4710 Common Street in Lake Charles, and live music follows
each reading. For more information about the reading series, contact the Arts
Council at (337) 439-2787 or visit www.artsandhumanitiesswla.org.
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