Words in the Garden featuring Jonathan Harper and Chris Ritthaler

“Words in the Garden” is a weekly, alfresco literary reading series from the Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow (WCDH) and the Eureka Springs Carnegie Library.  Every Wednesday through the summer at 4:30 pm, a local and/or visiting WCDH writer-in-residence will present a reading and Q&A in the Eureka Springs Carnegie Library Garden at 188 Spring Street (south of the Carnegie Library Gardens Building). The readings are free and open to all. In the event of rain, they will be held in the library garden under the tent. On Wednesday, June 23, Jonathan Harper, a writer-in-residence from Virginia, will share his work. Joining him is local writer, Chris Ritthaler.

Jonathan Harper is the author of the short story collection Daydreamers, a Kirkus Review's Indie Book of the Year for 2015 and double finalist for Foreword Magazine's Indie Fab Awards. He received his MFA in Creative Writing from American University in Washington,…