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The National Writers Union will be hosting a reading and open mic on Monday, November 17, starting at 6:00 p.m. at 2955 E. Broadway in Tucson. 

This month, our featured reader will be Carolyn Niethammer. Carolyn will be discussing and reading from her novels, The Piano Player and Everything We Thought We Knew, the latter of which is set on a 1970s commune in Arizona and inspired by real-life experience. She will also be discussing how she left her successful nonfiction "brand" of books and took a "left turn into historical fiction.” 
 
Carolyn has a journalism degree from the University of Arizona and  worked for both the Arizona Daily Star and the Tucson Citizen. Her first book, American Indian Food and Lore, a cookbook of Native American plant foods, was published 51 years ago and is still in print. Since then her publications include five cookbooks, including Cooking the Wild Southwest: Delicious Recipes for Desert Plants from University of Arizona Press, and several books on Native American women. She has also worked in marketing communications for two universities and Canyon Ranch and was an editor for the New York Times Syndicate.

The open mic is for spoken word only, but is open to all forms of spoken word (fiction, essays, poetry, articles, polemics, etc.). So bring something to read!

The event will be held at the UFCW Union Hall at 2955 E. Broadway. This is on the north side of Broadway, immediately west of the large and fancy Chase Bank, which is on the northwest corner of Broadway and Country Club Road. Parking and entry are from the rear.

There will not, unfortunately, be a Zoom option this month. 

Hope to see you there!