{"id":974,"date":"2005-10-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-13T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.emu.edu\/blog\/news\/?p=974"},"modified":"2005-10-13T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-13T04:00:00","slug":"novelist-giardina-to-speak-at-writers-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2005\/novelist-giardina-to-speak-at-writers-read\/","title":{"rendered":"Novelist Giardina to Speak at &#8216;Writers Read&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"photo right\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"196\" src=\"http:\/\/www.emu.edu\/news\/images\/denisegiardina.jpg\" alt=\"Denise Giardina, novelist\" \/><br \/> Denise Giardina, novelist<\/div>\n<p> Denise Giardina will read from her published novels at the second &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.emu.edu\/langlit\/writersread\">Writers Read<\/a>&quot; of the fall semester 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 1, in Martin Chapel of the seminary building at EMU. <\/p>\n<p> Giardina was born in the coal camp of Black Wolf near Bluefield, W.Va. She attended West Virginia Wesleyan University and did graduate work at Marshall University. A 1979 graduate of the Episcopal seminary in Alexandria, Va., Giardina became a writer instead of an ordained minister. Her first novel, &quot;Good King Harry,&quot; an historical novel about Henry V, was published in 1984. <\/p>\n<p> Giardina&#8217;s second novel, &quot;Storming Heaven&quot; (1987), is based on the battle of Blair Mountain, W.Va. &quot;The Unquiet Earth&quot; (1992) is a continuation of her second novel and further addresses the injustices committed in West Virginia and Kentucky by the coal companies. &quot;Saints and Villains&quot; (1999) is the award-winning fictional account of theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer&#8217;s life. <\/p>\n<p> The program is co-sponsored by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emu.edu\/langlit\">language and literature<\/a> department at EMU and by the Green Valley Book Fair near Mt. Crawford. <\/p>\n<p> Admission to the program, which includes dinner, is $12. Students with I.D. will be admitted for $5. Advance reservations should be made by noon Wednesday, Oct. 26, by calling the EMU box office at (540) 432-4582. A season pass to all four scheduled Writers Read events is available for $40.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Denise Giardina, novelist Denise Giardina will read from her published novels at the second &quot;Writers Read&quot; of the fall semester 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 1, in Martin Chapel of the <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2005\/novelist-giardina-to-speak-at-writers-read\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"more-link\">... read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">about Novelist Giardina to Speak at &#8216;Writers Read&#8217;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[356],"tags":[8047,8048,8107,6790,8203,6374],"feature":[],"class_list":["post-974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language-and-literature","tag-coal-camp-of-black-wolf","tag-coal-companies","tag-denise-giardina","tag-dietrich-bonhoeffer","tag-good-king-harry","tag-writers-read"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Novelist Giardina to Speak at &#039;Writers Read&#039; 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