11:49 a.m., Sept. 4, 2008----The University of Delaware Press announces the publication of On the Mason-Dixon Line: An Anthology of Contemporary Delaware Writers, edited by Billie Travalini and Fleda Brown.

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The press is sponsoring a program to celebrate the book's publication at 4:30 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 16, in the Reserve Room of the Morris Library, followed by a reception.

Brown, UD professor emerita of English and former Poet Laureate of Delaware, and Travalini, founding director of the New Castle Writers' Conference, a fiction editor for the Journal of Caribbean Literatures and adjunct professor at Wilmington and Lincoln universities, along with others, will speak.

To request a printed invitation to the event, which is free and open to the public, send e-mail to [jhamm@udel.edu] or call [302] 831-2231.

On the Mason-Dixon Line is the first major collection of its kind and contains more than 50 poems, short stories, essays and excerpts from novels and memoirs by writers who live in Delaware or have lived in Delaware long enough to have been influenced by its people, cities, beaches, rivers and farms.

Among the contributors are such well-known authors as Gibbons Ruark, UD professor emeritus of English; Jeanne Murray Walker, UD professor of English; Brown; Marissa de los Santos; Cruce Stark, UD professor of English; Drury Pifer; and W.D. Snodgrass, UD Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English and Pulitzer Prize winner.

Others sponsoring the program include the Office of the Provost, the Department of English, the College of Arts and Sciences, the Faculty Senate Committee on Cultural Activities and Public Events and the University of Delaware Library.

The University of Delaware Bookstore will offer On the Mason-Dixon Line for purchase at the program or at the bookstore before the event.