DONNA D. VITUCCI RELEASES NEW NOVEL, “SALT OF PATRIOTS”
OUTLOUD FESTIVAL – PRESS RELEASE
Contact: Donna D. Vitucci
513.448.7212
d_vitucci[at]yahoo.com
ANNUAL OUTLOUD FESTIVAL CELEBRATES LOCAL AUTHORS AT THOMAS MORE UNIVERSITY
CRESTVIEW HILLS, Ky. (Feb. 11, 2020) – The Thomas More University Creative Writing Vision Program will present the 28th annual Caden Blincoe Outloud Festival from 2 – 4 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 16, in the Saints Center on campus.
The Outloud Festival, which is held in collaboration with the James Graham Brown Honors Program, will offer a unique celebration of writers and writing in a festival setting. In attendance will be the 2019 American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year winner Jeanne Bryner, Dos Madres Press publisher Robert Murphy, Weatherford Award winner and Thomas More Artist-in-Residence Richard Hague, and “All Souls” author Donna Vitucci. The event will also include music by Tellico, a three-generation Appalachian family band.
The event is free and open to the public. Doors open at 1:45 p.m. Local authors who attend are welcome to bring books for signing tables. Appetizers and refreshments will be served.
“The Outloud Festival reflects a strong value for literature as a resource for diverse cultures and groups,” said Sherry Cook Stanforth, Ph.D., Creative Writing Vision director. “This year, the sciences meet the arts in nurse-author Jeanne Bryner, whose creative interpretations of healing and biographical efforts stand as inspiration for all of us. The Outloud Festival authors regularly feature diverse disciplines and themes – the mission here is to unify people from different perspectives and cultures in a meaningful celebration of the expressive arts. I feel honored to promote this historical event as a reflection of Thomas More and Kentucky spirit.”
The annual event honors the late Boone County Kentucky Enquirer reporter and literacy advocate Caden Blincoe, who emphasized the importance of sharing great literature among all people, including those who may not read or have access to books. Blincoe was also a member of the Cincinnati Editor’s Association, the Cincinnati Writers Project, and Adult Literacy.
The festival began in 1991 at Big Bone Lick State Park and, shortly after moving to the campus, became one of Thomas More’s most popular public events, featuring regional greats including Frank X Walker, Crystal Wilkinson, Richard Taylor, the late Jim Webb, Cathy Smith Bowers, and Robert Gipe.
For interviews, author appearances, and more, contact Donna at 513.448.7212 or email d_vitucci[at]yahoo.com
Donna D. Vitucci - Author
Donna Vitucci is Development Director of Covington Ladies Home, the only free-standing personal care home exclusively for older adult women in Northern Kentucky. Her stories have appeared in dozens of print and online journals, including PANK, Fifth Wednesday Journal, Front Porch, Watershed Review, Gargoyle, Hinchas de Poesia, Contrary, Corium Magazine, Southern Women’s Review, Change Seven (Yay!) and The Butter. Her novel AT BOBBY TRIVETTE’S GRAVE will be published by Rebel E Press in 2016. Her unpublished novel FEED MATERIALS was a finalist for the Bellwether Prize and waits with other finished novels in a trunk.
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