Author Event: Padgett Gerler

Name: Author Event: Padgett Gerler
Start: 2025-10-19T14:00:00-04:00
Location: 415 Brooks Street, Wake Forest, NC, United States, North Carolina 27587

Schedule

Sun, 19 Oct, 2025 at 02:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

415 Brooks Street, Wake Forest, NC, United States, North Carolina 27587 | Wake Forest, NC

Page 158 Books is excited to welcome author Padgett Gerler for the launch of her short story collection, My Southern Voices: From the Mountains to the Coast.
The southern voice isn’t just an accent, it’s an attitude and an experience. For the past twenty years, Padgett Gerler has written the southern voice, setting each of her eight novels in small southern towns. Now comes a compilation of all her voices, from the coast of Georgia to the mountains of Virginia…and parts in between. Some poignant, others humorous, all of Padgett’s short stories in My Southern Voices: From the Mountains to the Coast are simply drawling with attitude.
Padgett is the award-winning author of seven published novels: Getting the Important Things Right (2012), Lessons I Learned from Nick Nack (2014), The Gifts of Pelican Isle (2016), What Does Love Sound Like?(2017), Invisible Girl (2019), The Summer the Air Changed (2021), and She's the Same (2023). The Girl Who Feared Trains (2022) is a work of historical fiction based on the author’s mother’s childhood.Lessons I Learned from Nick Nack and Invisible Girl were awarded the indieBRAG Medallion, while Lessons I Learned from Nick Nack also received honorable mention in the Writer’s Digest Self-published Book Awards. The Gifts of Pelican Isle was a Finalist in the 2018 Best Book Awards sponsored by American Book Fest. Padgett’s short story “The Art of Dying” won first place in the Southwest Manuscripters Awards. Her short story “I Know This Happened ’Cause Somebody Seen It” is featured in the anthology Self-Rising Flowers, published by Mountain Girl Press.
Padgett and Ed live on pastoral and inspirational Lake Winchester in Raleigh, North Carolina, where Padgett writes the southern voice, from the mountains to the coast.