STONEHAM — Award-winning authors Debra Spark, Ron Currie, and Kathy Gunst will headline the 7th annual Evening with Maine Authors at Stone Mountain Arts Center in Brownfield on Friday, August 11, from 5 to 9 p.m. The event proceeds will benefit Camp Susan Curtis, a tuition-free, residential camp program for Maine children facing economic hardship in Stoneham.

The evening at Stone Mountain Arts Center begins with a cocktail hour in the Queen Post barn and segues to a buffet dinner in the Maine Concert Hall. After dinner, a former Camp Susan Curtis camper will share reflections about their transformative camp experience followed by readings by the authors who will be available for book signing afterwards.

In recognition of the fact that many of the campers also struggle with food insecurity, the authors’ readings will draw from their essays in Breaking Bread. a collection of essays by distinguished New England writers focused on food, hunger, and family. Proceeds from the sale of this book will go to combat hunger and food insecurity in Maine.

Tickets and information are available at https://maineauthors2023.eventbrite.com. Tickets may also be purchased at The Charlotte Hobbs Library in Lovell and Bridgton Books in Bridgton.

Kathy Gunst is a James Beard Award-winning journalist and author of 16 cookbooks. Her most recent book is Rage Baking—the Transformative Power of Flour, Fury, and Women’s Voices. She is the Resident Chef for NPR’s ‘Here and Now’, heard on 550 stations, and writes for The Washington Post, Eating Well, and other publications.

Ron Currie, the author of four novels, a screenwriter, and a teacher in the University of Southern Maine Stonecoast MFA program, has won the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Award, the Addison M. Metcalf Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Alex Award from the American Library Association, and the Pushcart Prize. His next novel, the first in a trilogy about a Franco-American family in central Maine, will be published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in 2025.

Debra Spark is the author of six works of fiction and two books about fiction writing, a professor at Colby College, and co-editor of Breaking Bread. Her next novel, Discipline, is due out next year.

This event is made possible in part by Great Northern Docks, Naples, ME, the presenting sponsor for the 7th consecutive year; and sponsors Dead River, South Portland, ME; Norway Savings Bank, Norway, ME; Hancock Lumber, Casco, ME; Kezar Lake Realty, Lovell, ME; MainEco Homes, Bridgton, ME; and the Q Team, Naples, ME.

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