WED 9/11/24 -7-9:00 PM – The North Carolina Writers Network and The Brandy Bar + Cocktails present VINCENT RAY BUTLER
as next in their series “In the Company of Writers”

The program offers a series of personal and conversational dialogues featuring guest writers/poets followed by an open mic forum. These inspirational gatherings will elucidate and entertain those attending. The guest author speaks from 7-8 PM with an open mic from 8 -9 PM. The Chicago blues music of “Hollywood Johnny Cosgrove” (accompanied by Charlie Wilkinson) welcomes you, continues during intermission, and closes the evening. Sign-ups for the open are available at the entrance.

Vincent Ray Butler, known as Ray, self-published his first novel, Orchids Are Deadly (Friesen Press, 2014). He began the book in 1987 and, given his work in criminal justice, had to delay its completion. Serving as a counselor at The Alston Wilkes Men’s Home (a Halfway House), he developed his interest in writing, initially, short stories and poems, while also moonlighting for a small newspaper, The Torch. An avid reader of Sidney Sheldon novels, Ray took encouragement from the fact that Sheldon did not begin writing the bulk of his novels until after age fifty. Butler has now completed his second novel, The Johnson Saga, which will be published by Fountain Blue Publishing, a traditional publisher in California, in the near future.

Co-sponsored by the North Carolina Writers Network and The Brandy Bar + Cocktails, the program, “In the Company of Writers” is featured the 2nd Wednesday of each month.