Roar at Bards Alley

Join several of the authors of Better Said Than Done’s anthology, Roar: True Tales of Women Warriors, at Bards Alley Bookstore in Vienna, VA on October 20th for storytelling, readings, and conversation about women, writing and warriors. It’s a free event, but you can purchase copies of Roar, as well as wine and food. Did I mention that there’s wine!

Roar: True Tales of Women Warriors, a book anthology of true, personal stories about obstacles and empowerment, is available for purchase
at Bards Alley Bookstore in Vienna, VA.

Book sales benefit the National Network to End Domestic Violence.

Roar Storytelling and Book Event
Bards Alley Bookstore
October 20, 2017
7:00PM Start
110 Church St. NW
Vienna, VA 22180
Free Event
Seating is limited. First come, first served.
Wine, drinks, and food are available for purchase.

Watch the book trailer, with readings from several of the authors:

Here’s some information about the 9 female authors who will be appearing at the book event at Bards Alley on October 20.

Sandra Hull has long used storytelling in her day job as an eLearning Instructional Designer, but only recently has she embraced storytelling to entertain and educate live audiences with her personal experiences and truths. She’s been a member of Better Said Than Done since 2015. Previously, she performed with a handful of DC-area amateur improv troupes and was a regularly published contestant in humor-writing contests in the Washington Post, the Toronto Globe and Mail, and New York Magazine. Learn more on Twitter and her blog

Bushra Jabre is Associate Faculty, Senior Communication Advisor of The Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs / Bloomberg School of Public Health. She was the Project Director of Arab Women Speak Out and the Emerging Leadership Project. She directed the annual Arabic Advances in Development Communication Regional Workshop 1992-2006. She held the post of Regional Advisor in Health Education and Women’s Programs with the UNICEF Regional Office for the Middle East and North Africa in Amman Jordan.
She has published Sophie’s Book, a memoir about her mother in 2016, Arab Women Speak Out, in 1998, Emerging Leadership in the Arab World in 2004 and many technical articles, newspaper articles and books in Arabic, English and French. More at LinkedIn and Facebook

Urmilla Khanna, a board-certified pediatrician, came to United Sates as a young bride in 1963 and pursued her medical career until 2000. Besides publishing her essays in newspapers and magazines, she has published two of her short stories in Patchwork, Stories from the Dining Table. Her first book, Boundaries of the Wind, a memoir, was published in 2015 and is available on Amazon in both kindle and print.

Mary Nicol Lucas is a marketing consultant to the credit union industry. Her areas of expertise include name development and rebranding; creation of advertising materials, collateral, website development and PR. She started her marketing career with the advertising agency, J. Walter Thompson USA, and she worked for DDB Needham Worldwide before spending 19 years as a corporate Director of Sales and Marketing for CORT, a Berkshire Hathaway Company.

Kim O’Connell is a writer whose articles and essays have appeared in national and regional publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Brain, Child, Yahoo News, Ladies Home Journal, National Parks, PsychologyToday.com, Thread, and more. Her short fiction and poetry have appeared in Little Patuxent Review and unFold Poetry, and she has been a writer in residence at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and at Shenandoah National Park. Visit her website, www.kimaoconnell.com, LinkedIn and Twitter

Laura Bowman Pimentel is a full time real estate agent, part time food tour guide and single mom. Her writing includes blogging about food escapades around Washington DC as well as short stories and essays based on her personal experiences with parenting, marriage and relationships. Because of her experience with her ex-husband’s struggle to adjust to life in the United States and the resulting mental health consequences, she is inspired to speak out and dispel misconceptions about both mental illness and immigration. More at her Blog, LinkedIn, Twitter and Instagram: @lauralizbp

Jessica Robinson is a storyteller with, and the founder of, Better Said Than Done, with monthly, themed storytelling shows featuring true, personal stories, and with storytelling workshops for non-profits, corporations and individuals. Jessica’s first novel, the urban fantasy Caged, was published October 2016 under the pen name JP Robinson. Jessica is currently working on the sequel, Rise. Her true, personal story, “The Game,” was published in the short story collection Sucker for Love, and “What Are the Odds” was published in The Northern Virginia Review, Volume 29. Follow JP Robinson on her website, Twitter and Facebook

Mary Supley Foxworth, tells true, personal stories with Better Said Than Done and leads workshops in the art of storytelling. Though she has been an editor of and contributor to other non-fiction books, her story in Roar is her first credit as an author.

Anne B. Thomas is the 2013 National Storytelling Festival Slam Champion. She has been featured on national US storytelling programs such as The Moth, Storycorps, and RISK!. She’s been published in the New York Times and is a coauthor of the book, Sucker For Love. Anne spent most of her career as a civil rights attorney, conflict resolution expert, and leadership development innovator. She is currently writing a memoir that will be published in 2018. You can learn more about Anne at her website, annebthomas.com and on LinkedIn