Dale Bailey & Robert Canipe premiere collaborative fiction October 26

Dale Bailey and Robert Canipe will premiere a collaborative work of fiction during a public reading Thursday, October 26, at Catawba Valley Community College's Alexander Center in Taylorsville.

The Taylorsville Times is partnering with CVCC to sponsor this second in a series of literary events at the CVCC Alexander Center.

With three novels to his credit, Dale Bailey's writing appeals to fans of the fantastic, the frightening, and the macabre. On to his website, www.dalebailey.com, he describes his work as "weird fiction," blending science fiction, fantasy, horror, "and a little bit of something else, too."

His stories have also appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Amazing Stories, Pulphouse, Alchemy and SciFiction.

His stories have also been reprinted in The Year's Best Fantasy & Horror, Nebula Awards 31, and the two most recent collections of The Best from Fantasy & Science Fiction. In 2003, a collection of his work was published by Golden Gryphon Press under the title, The Resurrection Man's Legacy and Other Stories. It includes both the title story-a Nebula nominee in 1995, presently under option to Twentieth Century Fox-and "Death and Suffrage," winner of a 2003 International Horror Guild Award.

His novel, The Fallen, published by Signet Books in 2002, was a finalist for the International Horror Guild Award and a preliminary finalist for the Bram Stoker Award, both in the First Novel category. He published House of Bones in 2003. His third novel, a noir thriller written in collaboration with Jack Slay, Jr. titled Sleeping Policemen is available at Barnes and Noble and at Amazon.com. It was published in August 2006. Earlier this year, director Joe Dante and screenwriter Samm Hamm collaborated with Bailey on Showtime's Masters of Horror series. Bailey's tale "Death and Suffrage" premiered as "Homecoming," a tale of U.S. soldiers killed in the line of duty returning to life as zombies with the intention of voting in the next presidential elections. Critics have deemed the episode the most powerful and successful of the series. The episode is currently available on DVD and includes Bailey's original story as a bonus.

Bailey earned a doctorate in English at the University of Tennessee and is a full-time professor at Lenoir-Rhyne College in Hickory. He and his wife, Jean Singley-Bailey, and their daughter live in Hickory.

Robert Canipe is the co-author of Writers on the Storm, a collection of stories, observations, and essays written with Carter Monroe and Tim Peeler and published in 2001. His realistic, often rowdy, short fiction features real people with real problems. His writing has been called "a fine example of the Southern Oral Tradition." Writer Scott Nicholson calls Canipe a "modern Erskine Caldwell."

While wrapping up Writers on the Storm, Canipe was transforming himself from bookstore owner to college student. He enrolled at Catawba Valley Community College in 2000 and completed an associate degree in English. He enrolled at Lenoir-Rhyne College where he earned a bachelor's degree in English and education. He began a master's degree in English at Gardner-Webb University and transferred to Appalachian State University in summer 2005 where he will complete his master's degree in English and community college education in May of 2007.

Canipe holds a certification in rhetoric and composition as well as certification in developmental education with a focus on writing. He attended Michigan State University's prestigious Clarion Writer's Workshop in 2003. In 2004, he won the prestigious Edythe Beam Mayes Award in Creative Writing and the 2004 Lenoir-Rhyne Journalism Award. He recently completed a summer travel/study program in England with Appalachian State University.

Canipe taught developmental English at CVCC from 2004 to 2006. Currently an adjunct, he teaches freshman composition at Lenoir-Rhyne.

He and his wife, Ann, live in Hickory and a cat named Lucy Furr owns both.

For more information about the October 26 reading at the CVCC Alexander Center, call 828-327-7000, ext. 4382.

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