Friends Of The Hickory Public Library Annual Meeting, 6/14

Hickory – The Friends of the Hickory Public Library Annual Meeting is Saturday, June 14, 2025, at 10 a.m. at Patrick Beaver Library Meeting Room.

Rhonda  Browning White will be our Guest Speaker. She is the local Hickory author of “The Lightness of Water and Other Stories” and “Filling the Big Empty.”

Rhonda Browning White resides in Hickory, NC. Her debut novel, Filling the Big Empty, was shortlisted for the 2022 Neilson Prize and is available for pre-order now at Redhawk Publications. She is the winner of The 2019 Press 53 Award for Short Fiction for her short-story collection The Lightness of Water & Other Stories, a finalist in the Eric Hoffer Book Awards. Four of the stories were nominated for 2021 Pushcart Prizes.

She has an MFA in Creative Writing from Converse University in Spartanburg, SC. Rhonda was awarded the Sterling Watson Fellowship in 2015 and a Standiford full scholarship in 2017 to Eckerd College’s Writers in Paradise.

For more information about Rhonda Browning White, please visit https://rhondabrowningwhite.com/