FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Author Talk with Estelle Ford-Williamson
Bluffton, SC –Libraries for Kids, International www.libraries4kids.org is pleased to announce an author talk
featuring Estelle Ford-Williamson on Monday, May 19, 2025, from 10:30 to 11:30 am at the
Roasting Room, 1297 May River Road, Bluffton, SC. The event is free and open to the public;
however, a $5 donation is suggested.
Following the author's talk, attendees are invited to join the author for an optional Dutch Treat lunch.
This informal gathering offers a chance for further conversation in a relaxed atmosphere.
Space is limited, so reservations are necessary, and early arrival is recommended. For more
information or to RSVP, please contact Tamela Maxim at 843.683.4100 or tamelamaxim@gmail.com
or tamela.maxim@libraries4kids.org.
Featured Book: Rising Fawn
About the Author:
Author | EstelleFord-Williamson.com
Estelle Ford-Williamson is a novelist and memoirist whose most recent book, set in Rising Fawn, GA,
has won awards from the Sandhills Writers Conference and the Atlanta Writers Conference. Her
previous books were Abbeville Farewell: A Novel of Early Atlanta and North Georgia, a nominee for
the Townsend Fiction Prize, and Seed of South Sudan: Memoir of a Lost Boy Refugee, which was co-
written with Majok Marier. She has received Poets and Writers Inc. grants for readings and
workshops in Atlanta and New York, and has presented memoir workshops through the Pat Conroy
Literary Center in Beaufort, SC, and for the Lou Walker Senior Center in DeKalb County, GA. A short
story drawn from Rising Fawn was a finalist for the Short Story America Festival in 2017. Born in
Chattanooga, TN, Ford-Williamson graduated from Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame, IN, and
worked as a reporter for UPI in Atlanta, where she later worked as a management trainer and career
specialist before writing her first novel. She moved to the Beaufort, SC area in 2016.
About the Book:
Clare is a professional life coach who tells others how to manage their lives and careers, but loses
her home and family through credit card hijacking and a fraudulent loan that create conflict with her
irate husband. He kicks her out of their comfortable north Atlanta home; Clare has no option but to
flee to the northwest Georgia mountains. She claims a now-deserted trailer on the Alabama side of
Lookout Mountain owned by her mother. A journey into family roots—Irish and Italian immigrants
working coal and iron furnaces in the South’s bid to industrialize after the Civil War—turns up very
surprising stories about Clare’s birth, shaking Clare’s sense of herself even more. She struggles for
her true identity in the wildness of mountain ledges and waterfalls. The novel won top novel
submission honors at Sand Hills Writers Conference and another prize at the Atlanta Writers
Conference.
About Libraries for Kids:
Libraries for Kids, International is a 501(c)(3) organization providing leisure and reference books to
schools in rural Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda for recreational and supplemental reading. Libraries for
Kids works exclusively with schools with little or no electricity or internet access in communities facing
significant environmental, climatic, and cultural challenges.
Contact:
Tamela Maxim, Board Member, Libraries for Kids, International, tamela.maxim@libraries4kids.org,
843.683.4100
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