October 2003
Thursday, October 2 – Saturday, October 4—The Southern Literature Festival Honoring George Garrett will take place on University of Tennessee’s campus. Twenty-four major Southern Writers will participate, including Madison Smartt Bell, Kelly Cherry, Jill Corkle, and Henry Taylor. [ Read More ]
Thursday, October 2 – Sunday, October 5—Attendees of this year’s Lost State Writers Conference can discuss their work with a literary agent, editor, poet, or songwriter in Historic Greeneville, Tennessee at the General Morgan Inn. Marshall Chapman is the featured entertainer. Sessions are $60 / 30-minutes. Please see http://www.loststatewriters.xtn.net/ for more details.
Friday, October 10 – Sunday, October 12—Nature Photography Workshop to be held at the Pine Mountain Settlement School. For more information, call 606-558-3571 or [ Read More ]
Friday, October 10 – Sunday, October 12—The annual Southern Festival of Books will take place on War Memorial Plaza in downtown Nashville. [ Read More ]
Saturday, October 11 & Sunday, October 12—The West Virginia Book Festival will be held at the Charleston Civic Center in Charleston, WV. Admission is free to book signings, workshops, readings, speacil programs and children's activities. [ Read More ]
Thursday, October 16 – Saturday,
October 18—The
Southern Women Writers Conference will be held in the
newly
renovated Berry Alumni Center at Berry College. For more
information about the conference, you can call Susan
Burr at 706-368-6995,
or check out their website at
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Friday, October 17 – Monday, October 20—The Southern Appalachian Writers Cooperative (SAWC) 2003 Annual Meeting will take place at the Highlander Research and Educational Center in New Market, TN (outside Knoxville) Participants will be “spending time with old friends and new-- laughing, crying, telling tall tales and reading the newest writings in all of Appalachia.” [ Read More ]
Thursday, October 23 – Friday, October 24—Ron Rash Literary Festival will take place at Emory-Henry College in Abingdon, Virginia, beginning at 2:30 pm each day. Festival will feature readings and interviews by Newton Smith, Silas House, Tim Peeler, Joyce Compton Brown and Ron Rash.
Thursday, October 23 – Saturday,
October 25—Ohio University at Zanesville,
Ohio, will host the Fifth Annual National Conference
of The Women
of Appalachia: Their Heritage and Accomplishments. For more
information about this event, please visit the following
website:
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