Writers’ Networking Events

On May 11 and July 13 at 6 p.m., co-hosts Sean Gates and Denise DeVries will welcome writers to a casual networking event in the gallery’s inspiring setting. Attendance at those meetings will determine interest in future activities.

Denise DeVries is a translator and writer from Colorado who has lived in Virginia since 1977 and in the Northern Neck since 2001. The rural town of Kilmarnock inspired her “Hull Crossing Chronicles” and “Key to History” historical fiction series and the one-act plays, A Two-Faced Spinster and Barbershop Gossip. Denise enjoys blogging and writing poetry and is a member of several writers’ groups. She, her husband Alvaro Ibañez, and their youngest daughter Delia Ibañez are developing a retreat center for the arts outside of Kilmarnock, Virginia.

Sean Gates is the author of the Harry Cogbill series, The Dark and Lonely Road and In the Trackless Wild. He is also the co-writer…