NORWAY – A Celebration of the Short Story at Norway Memorial Library will begin at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 18, with a talk titled “The Spell of the Short Story” by writer Lewis Robinson.

Reading, discussing and writing short stories will be included in programs aimed at encouraging readers and writers to discover the joy of sharing short stories.

Other programs will include a reading and discussion group, a series of writing workshops, a reader’s theater production, a short story writing contest and a live reading of stories selected from the writing contest.

Robinson is a graduate of Middlebury College and the Iowa Writer’s Workshop. He received the Pen/Oakland-Josephine Miles Award for “Officer Friendly and Other Stories.” In 2003 he received a Whiting Writer’s Award.

Robinson is on faculty of the Stonecoast MFA in creative writing program at the University of Southern Maine. His stories have been read on National Public Radio’s “Selected Shorts.” He lives in Portland.

For more information about this or other Celebration of the Short Story programs, stop by Norway Memorial Library or call 743-5309.