Minor Regional Novelist | Closing Reception

Join Deep Vellum and Nature of Things in a closing reception celebrating the successful run of Minor Regional Novelist in the gallery above our bookstore. Spend your Saturday enjoying readings by April Sojourner Truth Walker, Margot Stacy, Daryl Meador, George Getschow, and David Searcy, and music performance by the Easy Sevens, all surrounded by art in conversation with Texas Regionalism. A selection of books specifically curated for the exhibitions will be for sale at the event. April Sojourner Truth Walker, PMP is a Dallas native who studied at Emory University in Atlanta and Hollins University in Virginia. Before starting her writing coaching company – A Little More Truth, LLC – in April of 2020, she worked for seven years as a Senior Project Manager at AT&T. April is currently an Adjunct Professor at Dallas College and UNT Dallas. Previously she was an Adjunct Professor at Oklahoma City Community College, teaching a myriad of classes in the Humanities. A perfect day for April is one spent in nature with her camera, a cup of tea and nowhere to be. Her current manuscript, Fire Psalm, grapples with how the history of the black community in Dallas is covered up by the city’s constant need to revitalize its image. She is also working on a manuscript exploring the role of women in Christianity, Judaism and Islam and how these historically man-made roles manifest in women’s lives today. Margot Stacy Daryl Meador George Getschow is a Pulitzer Prize finalist and winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Award for distinguished writing about the underprivileged. In 2012, he was inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters for “distinctive literary achievement.” As writer-in-residence of UNT’s Mayborn School of Journalism, he conducted writing workshops with Larry McMurtry inside Booked Up, McMurtry’s internationally renowned bookshop in Archer City. Upon McMurtry’s death in 2021 Getschow edited Pastures of the Empty Page, a McMurtry tribute collection, and spearheaded the creation of The Larry McMurtry Literary Center (LMLC) inside Booked Up. The LMLC’s mission is to preserve McMurtry’s priceless book collection and perpetuate his epic life and literature. As executive director of the LMLC, Getschow considers himself “Larry’s literary torchbearer.” David Searcy lives in Dallas and Corsicana, Texas. He is the author of the book of essays Shame and Wonder and the long essay The Tiny Bee That Hovers at the Center of the World. His work has appeared in the Paris Review, Esquire, the New York Times Magazine, Freeman’s, Harper’s, and elsewhere.

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Join Deep Vellum and Nature of Things in a closing reception celebrating the successful run of Minor Regional Novelist in the gallery above our bookstore. Spend your Saturday enjoying readings by April Sojourner Truth Walker, Margot Stacy, Daryl Meador, George Getschow, and David Searcy, and music performance by the Easy Sevens, all surrounded by art in conversation with Texas Regionalism. A selection of books specifically curated for the exhibitions will be for sale at the event. April Sojourner Truth Walker, PMP is a Dallas native who studied at Emory University in Atlanta and Hollins University in Virginia. Before starting her writing coaching company – A Little More Truth, LLC – in April of 2020, she worked for seven years as a Senior Pr