Liz Peavey, Maine performer, writer, speech coach, and humorist will join us Thursday, March 14 from 6-8 for Word Buzz–an informal, once monthly chat with people in the word biz. 10% of sales during the event are donated to Webster Library in Kingfield.
Liz has had a long career of writing about and drinking around Maine. She bursts with energy and is quick to love. After coming to Rolling Fatties a few times, she deemed it her “favorite bar in Maine” only to admit a couple weeks later that The Garage, a short lived rogue bar in Kingfield, was her new favorite. “The Garage is my favorite! It has implements of death hanging on the walls!”
Seriously though, she’s a professional. Her accomplishments include serving as lecturer of public speaking at the University of Southern Maine for over 20 years and teaching creative non-fiction at the University of Maine at Farmington. Her one-woman show, My Mother’s Clothes Are Not My Mother, has played to sold-out houses — including at The Rack — since 2011 and received the Maine Literary Award for Best Drama. She is the author of three books, including Glorious Slow Going, a collaboration with renowned local landscape painter, Marguerite Robichaux, and she has been Down East contributor since 1993. Revered by her peers, fellow writer Al Diamon says, “Elizabeth Peavey is the most exasperating, stubborn, bull-headed and talented writer I know. If there were more people like her, civilization would collapse. Not that that would be a bad thing.” Her greatest accomplishment, so she says, is making it to almost retirement age without ever holding down a real job. We are hoping she can give us some pointers.
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