Award-winning poet coming to Writers’ Forum |
Laurinburg, N.C. - Poet Jeff Beam will be featured at the St. Andrews Writers' Forum Thursday evening. Free and open to the public, the Forum begins at 8 p.m. in Orange Main Lounge. A native of Kannapolis, Beam has been published widely and given more than 350 readings, lectures and panel discussions throughout North Carolina, Virginia, Canada and Italy. For 12 years he directed, produced and starred in a highly popular program for the Friends of the Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill entitled "Winter Stories for Children of All Ages." Beam has received numerous and awards and grants including an American Library association Stonewall Award nomination, two Pushcart nominations, an IPPY Ten Best Books Award, an Audie Award, an AIGA 50 Best Book Award, a North Carolina Writers Network Blumenthal Writer and Reader Award among others. For more information about the Writers' Forum, creative writing at St. Andrews or the St. Andrews College Press, call 910-277-5310 or email press@sapc.edu. |
About St. Andrews Presbyterian College An innovative and bold academic venture, the distinctive character of St. Andrews has been marked by an interdisciplinary curriculum, a highly acclaimed college press, an award-winning pipe band, national champion equestrian teams, and first-rate scholarship. In addition to classes on the main campus, adult learners also choose the Center for Adult and Professional Studies opportunities through St. Andrews @ Sandhills and St. Andrews ONLINE. On Aug. 29, 1958, the merger between Presbyterian Junior College and Flora Macdonald College became official with the formation of St. Andrews Presbyterian College in Laurinburg, N.C. Further information may be obtained by visiting the College's website www.sapc.edu, calling 800-763-0198 or sending an e-mail to info@sapc.edu.
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A branch of Webber International University Did you know...The St. Andrews Pipe Band is one of the university's most visible organizations and has become one of the top competing pipe bands in the southern United States.
St. Andrews University
A branch of Webber International University
1700 Dogwood Mile
Laurinburg, NC 28352
(910) 277-5555 • (800) 763-0198 • (fax) 910-277-5020