Local authors to read at Browseabout Books Jan. 9
Browseabout Books in Rehoboth will resume its winter/fall reading series at 2 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 9, featuring noted local writers Jamie Brown, Tim Linehan and Denise Clemons. The public is welcome. The series runs from 2 to 3 p.m. the second Saturday of each month.
Jamie Brown is the founder/publisher of the Broadkill Press and the Broadkill River Press, founder/publisher of the Broadkill Review, founder/former director of the Dogfish Head Poetry Prize and founder/director of the Milton Poetry Festival.
He has been published widely and taught at George Washington University, Georgetown University, University of Delaware, Wesley College and the Smithsonian Institution. He was also fiction editor of the Washington Review of the Arts, associate editor of both the Sulphur River Literary Review and Wordwrights, a member of the Poetry Committee of the Folger Shakespeare Library and was the poetry critic for the Washington Times from 2005-06. In addition to his poetry, prose and literary criticism, five of his plays were produced in the D.C. area. A revival of "Death Comes Twice" swept five major awards in the 2007 One-Act Play Competition in Milton.
Tim Linehan began creative writing in 1985. He holds a bachelor of science and a master of science in engineering, and he recently completed a 40-year career in major corporations. He is a graduate of the Institute of Children's Literature and a member of the Coastal Writers at the Rehoboth Art League. His young adult civil war historical novel "Drums of Courage" was originally published in 2005 and republished in 2010. Linehan is a past president of the Bucks County, Pa., Civil War Roundtable. To gather background for a new World War II novel, he worked directly with the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives in Washington, D.C., and Gratz College in Philadelphia. His poetry has been published in the Broadkill Review, and in 2015 he received the Judges Award for his adult short story "Chance Meeting" published in the anthology "Beach Days" by Cat and Mouse Press. Linehan also teaches English as a second language and religious studies in the Osher Lifelong Learning Program at the University of Delaware. He enjoys golf and sport car racing, and is a retired black belt martial artist.
After a career in he technology industry, Denise Clemons moved to Delaware in 2005 and began writing Cape Flavors, a weekly food column published in the Cape Gazette. She serves on the boards of several nonprofit groups, including the Eastern Shore Writers Association. She has twice been selected by the Delaware Division of the Arts to attend the semiannual Writers Retreat at Cape Henlopen State Park. Her fiction, nonfiction and poetry have appeared in many journals, chapbooks and anthologies, most recently a book review in the Delmarva Review and poetry in The Lake and Civilized Beasts. She is a member of the Coastal Writers group that meets at the Rehoboth Art League.
