Having trouble finding this elsewhere, so AGAIN from the Decatur Focus!

Decorate your home or business in the colors and traditions of the season and enter Decatur’s fourth annual Halloween Decorating Contest. Submit a photo to specialevents@decaturga.com by noon on Monday, Oct. 28. Be sure to include your name and address.

Judges will ride by the addresses and make their decision Monday evening and the winners will be posted on the Decatur website, the DowntownDecatur Facebook page, and the www.thedecaturminute.com blog. Winners will receive special yard signs on Tuesday, Oct. 29, to display throughout the week

The coveted Commissioners Cauldron will be presented to the winner at the Nov. 4 City Commission meeting. If you have questions or need more information email katie.abel@decaturga.com or call 678-553-6573.

Jane sends in this flyer with details about tomorrow’s annual fall fundraiser at Little Creek Farm…

Collin sends in this press release…

The 9th annual Voices Carry reading will be held Saturday, October 26, at 3 p.m. at the Decatur Library Auditorium, 215 Sycamore St. The featured poets are Cecilia Woloch, Jessie Carty, Helen Losse and Erica Wright. Poet and novelist Collin Kelley will host. The reading is presented by Poetry Atlanta and Georgia Center for the Book. The event is free and open to the public and books will be available for sale. For directions and more information, visit www.georgiacenterforthebook.org.

Featured Poets

Cecilia Woloch is the author of the poetry collections Sacrifice, Tsigan: The Gypsy Poem, Late and Carpathia. A recipient of an NEA Fellowship, Woloch teaches at the University of Southern California as well as hosting workshops around the world, including the annual Paris Poetry Workshop.

Jessie Carty is the author of the poetry collections An Amateur Marriage, Paper House, Fat Girl and the newly-published Morph from Sibling Rivalry Press. She is the founding editor of Referential Magazine.

Helen Losse is poetry editor emeritus of Dead Mule School of Southern Literature and the author of the poetry collections Mansion of Memory, Seriously Dangerous, Better With Friends and Gathering the Broken Pieces.

Erica Wright is the author of Instructions for Killing the Jackal and the chapbook Silt. Her debut crime novel, The Red Chameleon, will be published next year by Pegasus Books. She is the poetry editor at Guernica Magazine.

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