ROANOKE TIMES

                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, April 17, 1990                   TAG: 9004170065
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B3   EDITION: STATE 
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DATELINE: BIG STONE GAP                                LENGTH: Short


COLLEGE TO PRESENT LECTURE BY PLAYWRIGHT

Playwright Jo Carson will speak at Mountain Empire Community College today at 12:30 p.m. on her work in various writing fields.

She wrote "Daytrips," a play that won the national Kesserling Award for emerging playwrights. She has written a book titled "Stories I Ain't Told Nobody" and is under contract for two more. She is poetry editor of Now and Then, a publication of East Tennessee State University.

She has also acted with the Road Company and Lime Kiln Productions. Her talk is free to the public.

- Southwest bureau



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