Hopkinsville, KY – Hopkinsville Community College (HCC) will hold its first spring semester 2024 Round Table Reading Series lecture at noon on Wednesday, March 13th in the Emerging Technologies Building, Anderson Room. Guest speaker Jayne Moore Waldrop will read from her body of work.
Jayne Moore Waldrop is a Kentucky writer and attorney. She is author of “Drowned Town” (University Press of Kentucky 2021), which was named the INDIES Book of the Year Award silver winner in fiction and a 2022 Great Group Reads by the Women’s National Book Association.
Waldrop has also authored, “She Remembered It All: The Art of Memory Painter Helen LaFrance” (Shadelandhouse Modern Press 2024); “A Journey in Color: The Art of Ellis Wilson” (Shadelandhouse Modern Press 2022); “Pandemic Lent: A Season in Poems” (Finishing Line Press 2021), and “Retracing My Steps,” a finalist in the New Women’s Voices Chapbook Series (Finishing Line Press 2019). Her work has appeared in Appalachian Review, Still: The Journal, New Limestone Review, Anthology of Appalachian Writers, New Madrid Journal, Women Speak Anthology, and other literary journals and anthologies.
The event is free and open to all. Lunch will be provided.
For more information, contact HCC English Professor Elizabeth Burton at 270.707.3887.
About Hopkinsville Community College
For many Pennyrile, Kentucky region and Fort Campbell residents, higher education begins at Hopkinsville Community College (HCC). The college serves thousands of area residents each year as a comprehensive regional learning center providing academic and technical associate degrees; diploma and certificate programs in occupational fields; pre-baccalaureate education; adult, continuing and developmental education; customized training for business and industry; and distance learning.
As part of the Kentucky Community and Technical College System, HCC is a critical component to transforming the region’s economy by providing citizens with the education and training needed for high growth, high wage careers.
For more information, visit Hopkinsville.kctcs.edu.
