Join us for a reading, discussion, and signing with Roberta Hartling Gates and Connie Hampton Connally!

Roberta Hartling Gates won the Dogwood Literary Award in Fiction in 2021 and was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in the same year. Her work has been published in Confrontation, the Beloit Fiction Journal, Slippery Elm and elsewhere. She received an MFA in fiction writing from the Vermont College of Fine Arts and is also a reader for The Examined Life Journal.

Connie Hampton Connally has loved music and the written word all her life, and many of her adult years she’s spent working in those fields as well. She holds a BA in English from the University of Washington and an MFA in creative writing from Antioch University. She’s published magazine stories and newspaper articles, worked as an editor, taught high school English and elementary music, and is currently a respected presenter at writing conferences. She wrote her novels Fire Music and The Songs We Hide as a result of discovering Zoltán Kodály and his moving music. Connie is currently writing a third novel, set in Peru.
Connie and her husband live in Tacoma, Washington. They travel frequently, since they have family members living abroad. Because of her family and her characters, Connie has set her heart—and often her feet—in faraway places.