Watershed Literary Events returns to the South Orange Skate House to host novelist and short story writer Alice Elliott Dark as well as poet Bruce Lowry on Sunday, October 5, at 3:00 PM.

The Skate House is located at the intersection of Mead St. and Meadowbrook Lane in South Orange. Watershed is sponsored by the town’s Department of Recreation and Cultural Affairs and the Meadowland Park Conservancy. All readings are free and open to the public.

Alice Elliott Dark is the author of the novels Fellowship Point (2023) and Think of England (2003), as well as two earlier collections of short stories, In the Gloaming and Naked to the Waist. The New York Times called Fellowship Point “enthralling” and “masterfully written.” Her story In the Gloaming was chosen by John Updike for inclusion in The Best American Short Stories of the Century and was adapted into films by HBO and Trinity Playhouse. In July 2022, Dark was the featured subject of the New York Times Book Review’s “By the Book” interview. She is a Professor at Rutgers-Newark in the English Department and the Director of their MFA program in Creative Writing. She lives in Montclair.

Bruce Lowry is a reader, writer, and searcher in the vein of Walker Percy. His poetry and prose have been widely published, including in Poet Lore, Dos Passos Review, and Louisiana Literature, and have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Award, and Best of the Net. His poetry collection, Salvage, was published in 2022; his chapbook, Boyhood, Louisiana, was published in 2019. He is currently at work on a new manuscript titled Secrets of the Land. In a former life, he was a haggard newspaper journalist. He lives in Summit, New Jersey, with his partner, Deborah, and their cat, Pedro.

Now in its seventh year of programming, Watershed Literary Events promotes the work of a talented and diverse array of writers with a New Jersey connection.

For more information, contact Blake Smith at arts@southorange.org.