PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT


WRITER'S HARVEST NATIONAL EVENT WILL INCLUDE CHARLOTTESVILLE READING
BY SEVEN LOCAL WRITERS

	On Thursday, Nov. 14, the Omni Charlottesville Hotel, the
University of Virginia's Bookstore, and the Charlottesville Writing
Center will sponsor a benefit as part of Share Our Strength's fifth
annual Writer's Harvest:  The National Reading.  Local writers Rita
Mae Brown, John Casey, Jonathan Coleman, George Garrett, Matthew
Jones, Maryanne Voliers and Donovan Webster will read from their own
work.  All donations will go to the Thomas Jefferson Area Food Bank
to help fight hunger in Central Virginia.  The event will be held at
the Omni Charlottesville Hotel.

	"Writers create new worlds with their words.  Our hope is
that Writer's Harvest will help create a world without hunger," says
U.Va. English professor Rita Dove, former U.S. Poet Laureate and the
event's national chair.  The Charlottesville reading will coincide
with over 500 other events taking place around the nation, from
which all proceeds will go directly to anti-hunger organizations.

	The Thomas Jefferson Area Food Bank currently serves the
city of Charlottesville and seven surrounding counties.  TJAFB is a
non-profit agency which depends primarily on this community's
support.  Events like Writer's Harvest make up a large percentage of
its yearly income.

	Share Our Strength invites you to enjoy this literary event
and to donate whatever you can to a worthy cause.  Suggested
donations are $10 for general public and $5 for students.  The
reading will begin at 8 p.m.  For more information contact the U.Va.
Bookstore at (804) 924 1073.

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November 1, 1996

START DATE:  Immediate
KILL DATE:	   Nov. 15, 1996