Author Zelda Lockhart, the 2010 Piedmont Laureate, will celebrate Arts & Humanities Month in October by offering a special literary “Word Tasting†to patrons of Triangle restaurants, beginning with an Oct. 13 visit to Mama Dip’s from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Lockhart will visit with restaurant patrons and read selections from her new novel, Fifth Born II: The Hundredth Turtle. She is the recipient of a finalist award for debut fiction from the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Legacy Foundation and a 2008 Honor Fiction Award from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association.
For more information on the Chapel Hill “Word Tasting,†contact Orange County Arts Commission director Martha Shannon at 968-2011 or arts@co.orange.nc.us