McDaniel College celebrates National Author’s Day

B. Sharise Moore and Jared Reck, two former students in the Writing for Children and Young Adults (WCYA) graduate certificate program who have found success in the publishing world, participate in “Unleash Your Inner Author,” where they will share their stories and assist aspiring writers. The virtual event on Monday, Nov. 1, takes place at 7 p.m. via Zoom and is being held in partnership with the Carroll County Public Library.

B. Sharise Moore, who specialized in WCYA while pursuing her master’s degree from McDaniel’s Innovations in Teaching and Learning (formerly Curriculum and Instruction) graduate program, had her debut fantasy novel, “Dr. Marvellus Djinn’s Odd Scholars,” released at the end of May.

Jared Reck, who completed coursework in WCYA and currently teaches as an online adjunct lecturer in the program, had “Donuts and Other Proclamations of Love” published in June with Knopf Books for Young Readers by Penguin Random House. 

On Wednesday, Nov. 3, the English Department is hosting “An Evening of New Fiction” featuring adjunct lecturers Meghan Phillips ’08 and Katy Stanton. The reading begins at 7:30 p.m. in McDaniel Lounge.

Phillips, who earned a bachelor’s degree in English from McDaniel in 2008, reads from her award-winning chapbook, “Abstinence Only.” She received the 2020 National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Creative Writing Fellowship.

Katy Stanton highlights her newly released debut novel, “Say Hello.” “The story of sisters wrestling to find their own identities in a loving but dysfunctional family,” Stanton wrote the novel to come to terms with the death of her sister who died at the age of 35 after years of secretly struggling with eating disorders and alcohol abuse. Proceeds from the sale of the book go to causes that promote eating disorder awareness and recovery.