*Join local fiction author Samuel Snoek-Brown and Portland author John Sibley Williams for an afternoon of short stories and poetry at King's Books on August 10, at 2:00 PM.* [image: SSB JSW.jpg] *Samuel Snoek-Brown* teaches and writes in the Pacific Northwest. He’s the author of the short story collection *There Is No Other Way to Worship Them*, the Civil War novel *Hagridden* and flash-fiction chapbooks* Box Cutters* and *Where There Is Ruin*. He also works as a production editor for Jersey Devil Press, and he lives online at snoekbrown.com. His work has appeared in dozens of literary magazines, including *Bartleby Snopes*, *Eunoia Review*, *Fiction Circus*, *Red Fez*, and*Timberline Review*. He’s the recipient of a 2013 Oregon Literary Fellowship and has been shortlisted in the Faulkner-Wisdom competition, twice for short fiction and once for his novella. He was also a finalist in the 2013 storySouth Million Writers Award. In 2015, he was a contributor to the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. *John Sibley Williams* is the author of *As One Fire Consumes Another *(Orison Poetry Prize, 2019), *Skin Memory* (Backwaters Prize, 2019), *Disinheritance*, and *Controlled Hallucinations*. An eleven-time Pushcart nominee, John is the winner of numerous awards, including the Philip Booth Award, American Literary Review Poetry Contest, Phyllis Smart-Young Prize, The 46er Prize, Nancy D. Hargrove Editors' Prize, Confrontation Poetry Prize, and Laux/Millar Prize. He serves as editor of *The Inflectionist Review* and works as a literary agent. Previous publishing credits include: *The Yale Review*, *Midwest Quarterly*, *Sycamore Review*, *Prairie Schooner*, *The Massachusetts Review*, *Poet Lore*, *Saranac Review*, *Atlanta Review*, *TriQuarterly*, *Columbia Poetry Review*, *Mid-American Review*, *Poetry Northwest*, *Third Coast*, and various anthologies. He lives in Portland, Oregon. Event address: King's Books 218 St Helens Ave Tacoma, WA 98402 *This is a FREE event, open to the community. *