PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT


	WRITERS' HARVEST AGAINST HUNGER

	On Wednesday, Nov. 1, the University of Virginia Bookstore
in association with Share Our Strength will sponsor the Fourth
Annual Writers' Harvest Against Hunger.  Join area writers Karl and
Jennifer Ackerman, Susan Garrett, Deborah Eisenberg, Elizabeth
Denton and Sydney Blair at 7:30 p.m. in Garrett Hall as they read
selections from their current and forthcoming works.

	There will be no set admission fee, but members of the
audience will be asked to make a donation (with a suggested minimum
of $5) to benefit the Thomas Jefferson Area Food Bank.

	Sydney Blair is the author of the novel "Buffalo" and is
currently at work on a second novel.

	Jennifer Ackerman wrote the critically acclaimed nature
book, "Notes From the Shore."

	Deborah Eisenberg has written two story collections:  "Under
the Eighty-Second Airborne" and "Transactions in a Foreign Country."

	Susan Garrett's "Taking Care of Our Own" recounts her days
as an administrator of a small-town hospital.

	Karl Ackerman is the author of the comic novel, "The Patron
Saint of Unmarried Women."

	Elizabeth Denton's collection of short stories "Kneeling on
Rice" was published by the University of Missouri Press in 1994.

	For more information, call the U.Va. Bookstore at (804)
924-1073.

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October 26, 1995

START DATE:  Immediate
KILL DATE:      Nov. 2, 1995