Featuring the launch of A Commotion in Your Heart by Barbara Shoup
When: Friday, September 20
Time: 6-8 p.m.
Where: Schwitzer Gallery of the Circle City Industrial Complex
1125 Brookside Ave., Indianapolis, IN 46202

Join us on Friday, September 20 from 6-8 PM to celebrate the fortieth anniversary, and beyond, with the launch of A Commotion in Your Heart by Barbara Shoup. Our event program features a reading from Barbara Shoup, Rachel Sahaidachny, and other IWC writers.

We’ll share drinks and hors d’oeuvres. Book signing will follow. Music provided by Nick Ivanovich.

More details to come.

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Barbara Shoup is the author eight novels, including Night Watch, Wish You Were Here, Stranded in Harmony, Faithful Women, Vermeer’s Daughter, Everything You Want, An American Tune, and Looking for Jack Kerouac and the co-author of Novel Ideas: Contemporary Authors Share the Creative Process and Story Matters. Her short fiction, poetry, essays, and interviews have appeared in numerous small magazines, as well as in The Writer and The New York Times Travel Section. Her young adult novels, Wish You Were Here and Stranded in Harmony were selected as American Library Association Best Books for Young Adults. Vermeer’s Daughter was a School Library Journal Best Adult Book for Young Adults. She is the recipient of numerous grants from the Indiana Arts Commission, two creative renewal grants from the Arts Council of Indianapolis, the 2006 PEN Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Working Writer Fellowship, and the 2012 Eugene and Marilyn Glick Regional Indiana Author Award. She is the former Executive Director of the Indiana Writers Center and our current Writer-in-Residence.

$40/person (includes a copy of A Commotion in Your Heart: Notes on Writing and Life)

$60/couple (includes one copy of the book)

Pre-registration is required for this event.

Go here if you would like to make an additional donation to the IWC: Celebrating our 40th year!

 Please register below.