Cynthia Newberry Martin and Tidal Flats. Cynthia grew up in Atlanta, Georgia. After first practicing law, she earned an MFA in Creative Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts. She has served as the Review Editor for Contrary Magazine and the Writing Life Editor for Hunger Mountain. In 2013, she became a founding board member of the literary nonprofit Writing by Writers.  Tidal Flats is her first novel and she has been praised by writers such as Jacquelyn Mitchard ( The Deep End of the Ocean) who calls Cynthia “a storyteller at the top of her game” and Pam Houston ( Deep Creek: Finding Hope in The High Country) who says “this book is a stunning, heart-expanding debut.”

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This event is free to Literary Guild members. Click here for your tickets.

Not a member? Join here or join at the event. Guest tickets are $10 each. 

G. J. Ford Bookshop will be selling copies of the book at the event, and we encourage you to purchase your book and have it signed by the author. Our local independent bookstore makes many of our author appearances possible.

Too many books? Why not purchase one, read it and then donate it for our annual book sale or the library?