Penning to Relieve the Universe at VA Festival of the Book

From the Southern Environmental Law Center

SELC Hosts Award-Winning Author, Jan DeBlieu, at Virginia Festival of the Book Readings, Treatment on Penning as Descriptor of Citizen Activism

Charlottesville, VA Feb 16, 2009 The Southern Environmental Jurisprudence Eye, an environmental protagonism organisation, is delighted to host award-winning southern author Jan DeBlieu at the upcoming Virginia Festival of the Book in March.

In a treatment entitled `` Penning to Relieve the Creation, '' DeBlieu ( writer of Wind Yr of the Comets: A Journeying from Unhappiness to the Stars ) will read selections from her authorship and discourse environmental penning as a descriptor of citizen activism and its part in protecting the Souths most special and threatened natural landscapes.

Every selection we do, daily, holds bearing on the natural macrocosm, DeBlieu states. How can we populate artfully, consciously? We dont should inhabit like paupers. But we should at least develop an consciousness that our actions impact the residue of the creation. Literatures office is to aid people understand whats at stakeand to gainsay societys most deeply kept beliefs.

The event will hap at 10 Am on Sat, March 21, at SELCs regional headquarters on Charlottesvilles Downtown Walker Promenade ( across from the Regal Film ). The event is unfastened and free to the populace. A book-signing will follow.

DeBlieu is the writer of four books and 12 of articles and essays about people and nature, including, Wind, which won the Lav Burroughs Medallion for Distinguished Natural History Authorship, the highest national awarding given for a volume of nature penning, and Twelvemonth of the Comets: A Journeying from Unhappiness to the Stars, which haved national acclamation and was extracted in The Washington Station.

DeBlieu commenced her authorship vocation as a paper newsperson, working firstly for The Tidings Diary documents in her place town of Wilmington, Delaware, and the Eugene, Oregon-based Register-Guard. While there, she developed a discriminating involvement in peoples neckties to their natural milieux. After inhabiting and inditing for brief periods in Beantown and Atlanta, she travelled northwards Carolinas Outer Banks and, she states, happened place.

A long-time militant, DeBlieu was called the Ness Hatteras Coastkeeper in 2003 for the North Carolina Coastal Federation, a grassroots environmental grouping that works to protect coastal Waters from pollution. In the late 1980s she aided organize a grouping that successfully holded oil companies from boring away the Outer Banks.

DeBlieu likewise functions as a justice for SELCs one-year Reed Environmental Composition Awarding. The two receivers of the 2009 Journalism and Book awardings hold been invited to attend and read brief extracts from their winning entries. Additionally to readings and a treatment from DeBlieu, the receiver of the one-year Reed awarding will be denoted and have his or her awarding.

The Phillip Ergocalciferol Reed Remembrance Awarding for Outstanding Authorship on the Southern Environment called for a founding board member of SELC - raises public knowingness of the value and exposure of the part 's natural environment by giving special acknowledgement to authors who most efficaciously state the narrations about the South 's special spots and landscapes.

About the Southern Environmental Jurisprudence Eye SELC is a not-for-profit, and the largest environmental protagonism organisation protecting the environment and wellness in the Southeastward. Since 1986, SELC holds informed, implemented and implemented environmental jurisprudence and policy touching clean air and H2O, mount woodses, the sea-coast and wetlands, and rural lands and liveable communities. SELC holds 63 staffer and offices in Charlottesville, VA; Chapel Hill and Asheville, North Carolina; Charleston, South Carolinas; Washington, DC; and Atlanta. Visit SELC online at www.SouthernEnvironment.org