Novelist Carter Sickels: Reading & Craft Talk Community Event Thursday, March 18, 2021 (All day) to Thursday, May 20, 2021 (All day) Reading from THE PRETTIEST STAR and Craft Talk: Writing with Empathy (45 minutes) Carter Sickels is the author of the novel The Prettiest Star, published by Hub City Press (2020). Among other honors, The Prettiest Star has been named a Kirkus Best Book of 2020, a Finalist for the Southern Book Prize, Best LGBT Book of 2020 by O Magazine, one of the Women's National Book Association's 2020 Great Group Reads Selections, and an Indie Next Pick for April 2020. His debut novel The Evening Hour (Bloomsbury 2012), an Oregon Book Award finalist and a Lambda Literary Award finalist, was adapted into a feature film that premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. His essays and fiction have appeared in a variety of publications. He is an assistant professor of English at Eastern Kentucky University.