EVENT CANCELED TO BE RESCHEDULED Susan Zurenda and Bells for Eli. After teaching literature, composition, and creative writing to thousands of high school and college students for 33 years, Susan turned her attention to putting a novel in her heart on paper, the genesis of which started with a short story that won a fiction prize some years ago. Bells for Eli will be released March 2, 2020. During her years of teaching at Spartanburg Community College and then as an AP English teacher at Spartanburg High School, Susan published short stories and won numerous regional awards such as the South Carolina Fiction Prize (twice), the Porter Fleming Competition, The Southern Writers Symposium Emerging Writers Fiction Contest, The Hub City Hardegree Contest in Fiction, Alabama Conclave First Novel Chapter Contest, and The Jubilee Writing Competition (twice).  Since 2018, she has published six stories in literary magazines. 

Book Description (From the author):

“First cousins Delia and Eli's relationship and the lives around them are shaped by Eli's childhood accident in Bells for Eli, a tender and engaging Coming of Age novel set in the small-town South of the 1960s-70s. This distinctive work explores a world where cruelty and pain threaten two cousins whose extraordinary love prevails.”

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