Meredith Coleman McGee, Event Organizer/Director, Jackson Book Festival 2023, makes appearance on WLBT 3 news Wednesday, January 25, 2023, with legendary News Anchor Howard Ballou https://www.facebook.com/howardwlbt/. The spot airs at 4:30 pm and 9:30 pm. View online https://www.wlbt.com/. Thankful to WLBT Producer Brad Thompson for setting it up.
Summer Book Fest at the Afrikan Art Gallery on Farish St. was fun.
“I enjoyed meeting children and their parents and learning which books readers preferred,” Meredith Coleman McGee noted.
Gwendolyn Maberry Bell, We Will Ministries Employee, and Meredith Coleman McGee
Spoken Word Artist Black Fire and Meredith Coleman McGee
Community Speaking Series features Janice Neal-Vincent for Women’s History Month. Janice K. Neal-Vincent is a poet, playwright, spoken word choir director, and a performance artist. She lives in Madison, MS. Host Meredith Coleman McGee, Chair, Community Library Mississippi and Publisher @ Meredith Etc.
https://meredithetc.com/community-library-ms/ Community Library MS webpage
https://www.facebook.com/community.library.ms Community Library MS Facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/alittleofmebook A Little of Me, A Litte of You: Spoken Word Choir Book Facebook page
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1734157836 softcover book live Feb. 1, 2020 $9.24
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-little-of-me-janice-k-neal-vincent/1136299996?ean=9781734157840 $16.74 Hardback Barnes & Noble
https://themississippilink.com/2020/12/16/community-library-mississippi-goes-virtual-highlights-2020s-intellectual-revolution/ the winners of the Virtual Holiday Book Festival Spelling Bee and Poetry Contest made the Mississippi Link newspaper e-edition and print edition today.
Meredith C. McGee, Event Organizer, Community Library Mississippi Goes Virtual, hosted the Virtual Holiday Book Festival Saturday. Take a peak!
Thanks to the parents, participants, the audience, and everyone who had a hand in the Delta Book Festival 2020 Spelling Bee.
Announcing Delta Book Festival 11.28.2020 Spelling Bee winners:
1st Grade:
1st Place – Harrynoel Chia
2nd Place – Robert Lee Williams, III
3rd Grade
1st Place – Peyton Jones
2nd Place – D’zaria Butler
3rd Place – Ty’Leeann Hines
Combined 4th/5th/6th Grade:
1st Place – Shivaani Kumaravenkatesh (4th grade),
2nd Place – Daniel Knott (6th grade)
2nd Place – Charis Ngong (5th grade)
Jackson Book Festival hosted its 3rd Poetry Contest during the Virtual Holiday Book Festival. *Announcing 11.28.2020 Winners *
Elementary group:
1st Place Trophy Shivaani Thamizhmani
2nd Place Trophy Chelsea Smith
3rd place medallion tie: Harrynoel Chia and Clifton King.
Middle School:
1st Place Trophy Clarence Ngong
2nd Place Trophy Hannah King
H.S. Adult:
1st Place Trophy Marcus Lewis
2nd Place Trophy Mikayla Smith
3rd Place medallion goes to Malesha Smith
Several parents competed in the poetry competition with their child or children. They received trophies too.
Smith Family won Talented Family Team
Lakenderick & Zoe Davis’s family won Talented Family Team
Thamizhmani family won Talented Family Team
Meredith Coleman McGee served on “How to Write Right Now!” panel. Dr. Janice Neal-Vincent read her poetry from her book “A Little of You, A Little of Me: Spoken Word Choir Book.” http://www.meredithetc.com
Meredith Etc presents “A Little of Me, A Little of You: Spoken Word Choir Book” by Dr. Janice K. Neal-Vincent. The fine collection of poems is our 24th book title. We are thankful to readers around the world.
Being entrusted with the work of an author is very important. Today, we are honored to welcome Dr. Janice K. Neal-Vincent to our family of titles. We are publishing the 2nd printing of “A Little of Me, A Little of You: Spoken Word Choir Book.”
“A Little of Me, A Little of You” was showcased at the Greater Jackson Arts Council’s 25th Anniversary. Neal-Vincent is a playwright who performs a one woman show: “Deliverance Explosion: Women in the Struggle” featuring 124 years of social injustice highlighting Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Fannie Lou Hamer, Anne Moody, Michelle Obama, and Congresswoman Maxine Waters.
Neal-Vincent is an established award winning artist who has directed spoken word choirs for several decades. She was formerly a contributing writer for the Mississippi Link and a professor at Northern Illinois University, Ohio University, and Jackson State University.
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