Omnivore - Have yourself a literary Xmas

The Atlanta Community Food Bank is holding a fundraising event, “Wordfeast: Food for the Body and Soul,” at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Dec. 3, at Horizon Theatre in Little Five Points.

Here’s the lineup from press materials:

The evening features the talent of August House author, storyteller, actor and comedian Rob Cleveland; novelist, filmmaker, and founder of DownSouth Press Tina McElroy Ansa; storyteller and internationally known children’s book author Carmen Deedy; playwright, novelist and Senior Writer in Residence in the Creative Writing Program at Emory University Jim Grimsley; poet and playwright Robert Earl Price; widely produced and popular Atlanta playwright Janece Shaffer; actor, director, former Acting Teacher for the Alliance Theatre Professional Intern Company and Resident Artist for Theater Emory Brenda Bynum; actor and Executive Artistic Director of Atlanta’s Theatrical Outfit Tom Key; actor, playwright and host of The Morning Show on AM 1690 The Voice of the Arts in Atlanta Larry Larson; educator, writer, actor, and director Carol Mitchell-Leon; Atlanta-born artist, activist and saxophonist Eugene H. Russell IV; and more. A reception, meet and greet, and book signing, sponsored by Caribou Coffee and Charis Books and More, concludes the evening. All proceeds benefit the Atlanta Community Food Bank.

This is the old “Writers in Concert” event that has been on hiatus a few years.