Out Loud in the Library! at Windward CC presents writers Barclay and Song

March 11 and April 29

Writer Robert Barclay will screen Like Maddah March 11

Writer Robert Barclay on March 11

Writer/poet Cathy Song on April 29

Writer/poet Cathy Song on April 29

A writer and his film—a poet and her first book of fiction. Out Loud in the Library! at Windward Community College presents two acclaimed literary artists in a series of readings and screenings at Hale La‘akea Library Learning Commons on the Windward campus. The events are free and open to the public; elevator access available.  

Robert Barclay, writer
March 11, 2020
5:30–7:00 p.m.
Hale La‘akea Library Learning Commons, First Floor
Robert Barclay will read from his recent novel Bastards in the Wilderness. He will also present and discuss the pilot episode of his web series Like Maddah.

Cathy Song, poet and writer
April 29, 2020
5:30–7:00 p.m.
Hale La‘akea Library Learning Commons, First Floor
Acclaimed poet and writer Cathy Song will read from her recent collection of short fiction, All the love in the World.

More about the featured artists:

Robert Barclay is an award-winning novelist, screenwriter, and publisher. He owns and operates Lō‘ihi Press and is the editor of Windward CCʻs Pueo Press literary and art journal. His short film Like Maddah recently premiered at HIFF. Two of his Lō‘ihi Press  novels were featured in Honolulu Magazine’s “50 Essential Hawai‘i Books,” and his  novel, Melal, is in pre-production as a feature film. Bastards in the Wilderness is Barclay’s latest novel.   

Cathy Song is the author of five collections of poetry, including Picture Bride, which won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award and was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award. Her poetry has been anthologized in The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry and The Norton Anthology of American Literature. Among her other awards are The Hawai'i Award for Literature, The Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America, a Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, and a Pushcart Prize. She divides her time between Oahu and Volcano, on Hawai'i island. A book of short stories, All the Love in World, is forthcoming from Bamboo Ridge Press this spring.

Out Loud in the Library! is a literary and music event celebrating the rich intersection of words and music by local artists meant to inspire and encourage students to find their own creative voice through writing, reading, poetry, music, spoken word, and the visual arts.

For more information, contact Susan St. John, English instructor and Out Loud in the Library! coordinator at 236-9226 or susan.stjohn@hawaii.edu.

For more information, visit: http://windward.hawaii.edu