Second Half Speaker Series: "An Evening with Fred McGavran"
Second Half Speaker Series
An Evening with Fred McGavran
Sunday, November 8
6:00 pm
via Zoom
Join us for an evening with the Rev. Fred McGavran as he shares a delightful reading and invites lively discussion of one of his most recent short stories, “Erebus Kincaid and the Devil”. Fred and his wife, Liz, are members of Church of the Redeemer and Fred serves as a Deacon at Episcopal Retirement Services. A retired lawyer, Fred has published several collections of short stories and has received notable recognitions.
We hope you’ll join us Sunday, November 8 at 6:00 pm via Zoom.
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Speaker Bio: The Rev. Fred McGavran is a graduate of Kenyon College and Harvard Law School and served as an officer in the US Navy in Vietnam. He practiced law as a litigation partner with Frost Brown Todd LLC in Cincinnati, Ohio, defending psychiatric malpractice cases and litigating business cases. In 2010 he was ordained a deacon in the Episcopal Diocese of Southern Ohio, where he serves as Assistant Chaplain at Episcopal Retirement Services. The Ohio Arts Council awarded him an Individual Achievement Award for "The Reincarnation of Horlach Spenser," a story that appeared in the Harvard Review. Black Lawrence Press published The Butterfly Collector, his award-winning collection of short stories. Glass Lyre Press published Recycled Glass and Other Stories, his second collection, in April 2017.
McGavran won the Writer's Digest Popular Fiction Award in the horror category, the John Reid/Tom Howard Contest, the Raymond Carver Award from Humboldt State University, and has placed in many other literary and screenwriting contests. His stories have appeared in Hayden's Ferry Review, Harvard Review, Rosebud, Gray's Sporting Journal, Fiction on the Web, The London Journal of Fiction, SpanktheCarp.com, Storgy Magazine, and other literary magazines and e-zines. His wife Liz is a decorator. Their older daughter Sarah earned a PhD in art history at Washington University in St. Louis, and their younger daughter Marian and her husband and son live in Arlington, VA.
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