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Several vendors have been invited to set up booth space during Berne LitFest, including the public libraries of Adams County, Faith and Life Books & Gifts, Limberlost State Historic Site, and Annie’s Publishing. Alpine Rose Coffee Shoppe will offer coffee and refreshments during the event. At 1 p.m., winners of the first annual Creative Writing Contest, sponsored by Annie’s Publishing, will be announced. The contest, which closed on August 8th, included three categories for adults—Poetry/Verse, Fiction, and Non-Fiction—as well as fiction or nonfiction categories for grade school and high school students. The highlight of this year’s Berne LitFest is keynote speaker, Dr. Dennis E. Hensley. He is the author of 53 books, including six novels, eight textbooks on writing, and books on futurism, motivation, time management, financial investing, and theology. Dr. Hensley is director of the professional writing department at Taylor University. He holds four degrees in English, including a Ph.D. from Ball State University. Dr. Hensley is a staff columnist for MNB: Metro North Business Magazine and for Advanced Christian Writer. He is a recipient of the Indiana University “Award for Teaching Excellence” and the Elizabeth Sherrill “Lifetime Achievement Award for Speaking and Writing.” Dr. Hensley’s more than 3,000 published freelance articles have appeared in such publications as Reader’s Digest, Essence, The Writer, People, The Detroit Free Press, and Downbeat, among many others.
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For more information on LitFest, contact event organizers at bernelitfest@gmail.com, or call the Berne Public Library at (260)5892809. To see a list of events to be held at the site of the Berne Clock Tower through October, log onto the Berne Community Development Corporation’s website at www. berneclocktower.org. WVL
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