Perhaps the most difficult aspects of craft for writers of any genre to master are form, narrative strategy and dramatic design. Prescott College professor and author K.L. Cook will suggest ways of thinking about these issues when he speaks to the Professional Writers of Prescott at 7 PM on Wednesday, March 28 in the Founders Suite on the lower level of the Prescott Public Library.

Cook is the author of "Last Call" (2004), a collection of linked stories that won the inaugural Prairie Schooner Book Prize in fiction. His novel "The Girl from Charnelle" (2006) garnered considerable critical praise and was named a 2006 Southwest Book of the Year, a 2006 "School Library Jounal" Best Adult Book for High School Students, a Mississippi Press/Gulf Coast Live Best Book of the Year, and an Editor's Choice selection of the Historical Novel Society. His fiction and essays have been published or are forthcoming in numerous journals, magazines, and anthologies, including "Poets & Writers," "Threepenny Review," "Glimmer Train Stories," and "Now Write: Fiction Exercises from Today's Best Writers and Teachers."

Cook teaches creative writing and literature at Prescott College and is a member of the graduate faculty in fiction at Spalding University's Brief-Residency MFA in Writing Program. Learn more about Cook at http://www.klcook.net/.

Guests are welcome! For more information, call Leslie Hoy, 445-4218 or visit http://www.prescottwriters.com/ .