WHAT: Registration for the 15th Annual Spring for Literacy Luncheon
WHERE:
WHEN: Wednesday, April 22nd, 11 am – 2:00 pm
(Lunch begins at noon)
HOW: Click HERE to register (coming soon)
Click to print the registration form: Word / PDF
Tickets are $125 per person; tables seat 10 people.
Author Daniel Wallace to Headline Chatham Literacy’s 2026 Spring Fundraiser
Daniel Wallace is author of six novels, including Big Fish (1998), Ray in Reverse (2000), The Watermelon King (2003), Mr. Sebastian and the Negro Magician (2007), The Kings and Queens of Roam (2013), and most recently Extraordinary Adventures (May 2017). His children’s book, published in 2014, and for which he did both the words and the pictures, is called The Cat’s Pajamas, and it is adorable. In 2003 Big Fish was adapted and released as a movie and then in 2013 the book and the movie were mish-mashed together and became a Broadway musical. His novels have been translated into over three-dozen languages. He is also the author of a coloring book, Roadside Attractions, co-authored by his esteemed friend Emily Wallace. A memoir, This Isn’t Going to End Well, was published in April, 2023.
His essays and interviews have been published in Slate, Poets & Writers, The Bitter Southerner, Garden & Gun and Our State magazine, where he was, for a short time, the barbecue critic. His short stories have appeared in many magazines and periodicals, including Tin House, One Story, Glimmer Train, and The Georgia Review. His stories have been recognized in Best American Short Stories, Best Stories from the South, and read by Levar Burton on his podcast, Levar Burton Reads. His fourth novel, Mr. Sebastian and the Negro Magician, won the Sir Walter Raleigh Prize for best fiction published in North Carolina in 2009. Extraordinary Adventures was chosen as the best fiction published by a native Alabamian in 2018. In 2019 he won the Harper Lee Award. The award is given to a living, nationally recognized Alabama writer who has made a significant lifelong contribution to Alabama letters.
Daniel Wallace is the J. Ross MacDonald Distinguished Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, his alma mater.
Tickets are $125.00, tables seat 10 people. Contact: admin@chathamliteracy.org; 919-742-0578, fill out the form below, or download the registration form (Word / PDF) and mail it to:
110 Village Lake Road, Siler City Business Park, Siler City, NC 27344
McIntyre’s Books will donate 20% of book sales to Chatham Literacy. Call the bookstore to order your copy today: 919-542-3030
All proceeds from the luncheon will support Chatham Literacy’s programs: English for Speakers of Other Languages, Citizenship Preparation, Traditional Literacy, Financial Literacy and Digital/Computer Literacy.
IF YOU ARE A TUTOR, consider taking your Chatham Literacy Learner(s) for $30 per person. Select the “Number of Chatham Literacy learners attending” option on the registration form.
CAN’T GO? Consider making your registration a donation. You will receive an autographed hardback of The Joy You Make. Select the “absentee registration” option on the registration form.
Chatham Literacy helps adults living or working in Chatham County acquire literacy and educational skills needed to function successfully in society.
Download the registration form here (Word / PDF) or register using the form below.