Gaithersburg Book Festival (2019) -- Melissa Scholes Young ("Grace in Darkness"):
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Description of Pictures: Melissa Scholes Young -- Grace in Darkness is the long-awaited eighth volume of the "Grace and Gravity" series, a literary journal devoted to women writers in the DC region. Editor Melissa Scholes Young writes "these are women writers with guts. Their courage doesn't need nor ask permission"
Melissa Scholes Young
Latest Title: Grace in Darkness
Melissa Scholes Young is the author of the novel “Flood,” which won the Literary Fiction Category for the 2017 Best Book Award from American Book Fest. Her writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Narrative, Ploughshares, Poet Lore and Poets & Writers. She’s a contributing editor for Fiction Writers Review and editor of “Grace in Darkness: D.C. Women Writers.” Scholes Young was named a Bread Loaf Camargo Fellow and a Quarry Farm Fellow at the Center for Mark Twain Studies. She is an associate professor in the Department of Literature at American University in Washington, D.C.
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2019 photos: Equipment this year: I continued to use my Fuji XS-1 cameras but, depending on the event, I also used a Nikon D7000.
Trips this year:
a four-day jaunt to Massachusetts (Boston, Stockbridge, and Springfield) to experience rain in another state,
Asheville, NC to visit Dad and his wife Dixie,
four trips to New York City (including the United Nations, Flushing, and the New York Comic-Con), and
my 14th consecutive San Diego Comic-Con (including sites in Utah).
Number of photos taken this year: about 582,000.
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