Word Thursdays Online!

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Word Thursdays Online featuring Robert Gwaltney & Jeffrey Dale Lofton will broadcast live on Thursday, March 13, 2025 at 7:00 PM EDT.

To attend the event, please click this link just before 7 PM EDT: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81577446746

Or visit Bright Hill’s Facebook page at 7 PM EDT to view the live stream.

RSVP to the event on Facebook here.

Suggested donation is $5, and free to students.

Robert Gwaltney a graduate of Florida State University, was named 2023 Georgia Author of the Year for First Novel. He resides in Atlanta Georgia where he is an active member of the Atlanta literary community serving as a board member for Broadleaf Writers Association.

By day, he works as Vice President of Easterseals North Georgia, Inc., a non-profit supporting children with disabilities and other special needs. Robert’s work has appeared in such publications as Southbound Magazine, Southern Literary Review, The Blue Mountain Review, and The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature. He was awarded the 2022 Pat Conroy Writers Residency, and his debut novel, The Cicada Tree, won the Somerset Award for Literary Fiction. His forthcoming novel, Sing Down The Moon, will be published by Mercer University Press in the Spring of 2026.

Jeffrey Dale Lofton hails from Warm Springs, Georgia, best known as the home of Roosevelt’s Little White House. He calls the nation’s capital home now and has for over three decades. He is a senior advisor at the Library of Congress where he is surrounded by books and people who love books—in short, paradise. He is a contributing editor for WELL READ Magazine and co-host of the Inside Voices podcast alongside author Robert Gwaltney.

Red Clay Suzie is his first novel, a fictionalized memoir written through his personal lens as an outsider—gay and living with a disability in a conservative family and community in the Deep South.

He was named Georgia Author of the Year for first novel and was the Pat Conroy Literary Center Spring 2024 Writer-in-Residence. Red Clay Suzie was Longlisted for The Center for Fiction 2023 First Novel Prize, twice named an Indie Next Pick by the American Booksellers Association, and was awarded the Seven Hills Literary Prize for Fiction.

You can learn more about Jeffrey at JeffreyDLofton.com.