Alan Rose is featured speaker at Northwest Voices event

Lower Columbia College has announced that Author Alan Rose will be featured at the September 28-29 Northwest Voices event in Longview. The event features the author's latest work, As if Death Summoned. Set in 1995, the novel chronicles one man's journey through the AIDS epidemic.

On September 28, the author will present a writing workshop at 2:30 p.m. in the Health & Science Building, Room 101 (HSB 101) on the Lower Columbia College campus.

On September 29 beginning at 7:00 p.m., he will hold a reading at the Longview Public Library auditorium.

Both events are free and open to the public.

Alan Rose worked with Cascade AIDS Project in Portland, Oregon, from 1993 to 1999, and prior to that was a volunteer with the Victorian AIDS Council (now Thorne Harbour Health) in Melbourne, Australia. He is the author of three previous novels; The Legacy of Emily Hargraves, Tales of Tokyo, and The Unforgiven. He coordinates the monthly WordFest events in southwest Washington state, hosts the KLTV program Book Chat, and reviews books for The Columbia River Reader.