Double author event slated for Portales Public Library

Novelists Kathleen M. Rodgers, a Clovis native currently of Colleyville, Texas, and Teddy Jones of Friona, Texas, are scheduled to appear at a double author event from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Thursday at the Portales Public Library, 218 S. Ave. B.

Rodgers’ work has appeared in Family Circle Magazine, Military Times, and several anthologies. Her fourth novel, “The Flying Cutterbacks”was named a 2022 New Mexico Press Women Zia Book Award first runner-up and a 2021 WILLA Literary Award finalist in contemporary fiction from Women Writing the West.

In 2017, the Clovis Municipal Schools Foundation presented Rodgers with the Purple Pride Hall of Honor Award in the “Sports and Entertainment” category.

Jones is the award-winning author of several novels and short stories. Her book, “Jackson’s Pond, Texas,” was a was finalist in the Women Writing the West WILLA Award for contemporary fiction in 2014, and one of her short stories won the Faulkner- Wisdom Creative Writing Competition first prize medal in 2015.

The event, sponsored by the Friends of the Portales Public Library, will include readings by both authors, followed by a question-and-answer session. Books will be available for purchase and signing, and refreshments will be served. The presentation is open to all.

For more information, contact the Portales Public Library at 575-356-3940, or visit Rodgers’ website at https://kathleenmrodgers.com/ and Jones’ website at https://tjoneswrites.net/.