CORVALLIS — A rousing evening of live literature, The Magic Barrel: A Reading to Fight Hunger, will be at 7 p.m. Friday Nov. 7 at the Majestic Theatre. Eight Oregon authors will share their works in a benefit for Linn Benton Food Share to help relieve hunger in the mid-Willamette Valley.

This year's Magic Barrel features novelist Molly Gloss, author of “The Hearts of Horses”; poet and essayist John Daniel of “Rogue River Journal”; and fiction writer Ehud Havazelet, whose latest book, “Bearing the Body,” is a finalist for the Oregon Book Award. Also, short story writer Susan Jackson Rodgers of the Oregon State University English Department's Creative Writing program will make her Corvallis debut. Other readers include novelist John Addiego, poets Eric Dickey and Marilyn Johnston, and the author of “Coyote Warrior,” nonfiction writer Paul Vandevelder. Peter Sears will emcee.

Admission is a suggested donation of $7 at the door, but no one will be turned away for lack of funds. Information: www.magicbarrel.org or 737-6198.