Award Winning Author Janie Watts To Speak At Dalton State

  • Monday, February 15, 2016
Author Janie Watts will speak on her book “Return to Taylor’s Crossing” in a program at Dalton State.
Author Janie Watts will speak on her book “Return to Taylor’s Crossing” in a program at Dalton State.

Janie Watts, a first place winning writer, will speak on her newest novel ‘Return to Taylor’s Crossing’ Wednesday, February 24 at 6 p.m. at the Derrell C. Roberts Library at Dalton State College. The program is free and open to the public.

Ms. Watts says it was her curiosity about most everything led to a writing career. Her first novel, ‘Moon over Taylor’s Ridge,’ is a book club favorite. Her second novel, ‘Return to Taylor’s Crossing,’ won the first place in the 2015 Knoxville Writers’ Guild Novel Competition. She was also named a semi-finalist in the Faulkner Writing Competition and her novel has been nominated for a Georgia Author of the Year Award and the Augusta Literary Festival’s Frank Yerby Novel Competition.

For more information about Watts’ visit, please contact Melissa Whitesell, at
(706) 272-2503.

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