Admission is free and the public is invited.
A reception follows. Holladay's stories are beautifully constructed, and they are filled with sensuous, even wondrous images . . . Author of two collections of short stories , The People Down South and The Palace of Wasted Footsteps , Holladay has received fellowships from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and the Tennessee Arts Commission. She is now at work on a novel and another collection of stories. Stephen King, one of the contest judges, wrote the introduction that appears with that story in the O. Henry Prize Stories volume.