March 2004
Friday, March 5 – Saturday, March 6—The Bale Boone Symposium in the Humanities at University of Kentucky in Lexington offers a weekend of workshops, discussions, receptions, and readings. All three of Kentucky’s Yale Series of Younger Poets champions will host book signings and workshops at the Symposium. [ Read More ]
Monday, March 8—The Berea Madison County Library’s Second Monday Book Club will meet at 6:30 p.m. to discuss The Unburied by Charles Palliser. [ Read More ]
Friday, March 12 – Saturday,
March 13—The 24th Annual Writers Conference,
Birmingham Southern College, Birmingham, AL. George Plimpton
will be posthumously honored as Grand Master.
Sunday, March 14 – Sunday,
March 21—The Green River Writers, Inc. will
host its 14th annual Novels-In-Progress Workshop on the
University of Louisville Shelby Campus in Louisville. Activities
include faculty-led breakout sessions, individual instruction
with faculty mentors, small-group critique sessions, and
panel discussions with faculty and agent and editor guests. [
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Thursday, March 18—The
Rothrock Café at Lawson McGhee Library in Knoxville,
TN at 6 p.m. will feature Jack Neeley reading from his new
book, From the Shadow Side.
Jack Neeley is a writer for Knoxville’s Metropulse,
a weekly publication. [
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Friday, March 19 – Saturday, March 20—The 8th Annual Blue
Ridge Writers Conference will be held at North Georgia Technical College in
Blairsville, Georgia. The keynote speaker will be Sharyn McCrumb and Dr. John
Stone as a special guest. The event is sponsored by Blue Ridge Mountain Arts
Association. E-mail blrdgarts@tds.net for
more information.
Saturday, March 20—The
Blue Ridge Writers Conference, Blairsville, GA. Sharyn McCrumb will be the
keynote speaker. [ Read More
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Sunday, March 21—UNC Asheville’s Writers at Home Series
continues with readings by Jan Bailey and Laura Swenson at Malaprop’s
Bookstore/Café at 3pm. The event is free and open to the public. For
more information, call UNCA’s Literature and Language Department at (828)
251-6411.
Wednesday, March 24—George Brosi will read from and sign his new book No Lonesome Road: Selected Prose and Poetry of Don West at Robie & Robie, Fine Books on Chestnut Street in Berea, Kentucky at 7pm.
Wednesday, March 24 – Sunday,
March 28—The
Virginia Festival of the Book, Charlottesville, VA. The
five-day festival honors book culture, and promotes reading
and literacy. [ Read More
]
Thursday, March 25 – Saturday, March 27—The
25th Annual Kentucky Women Writers Conference University of Kentucky, Lexington,
KY. In celebration of the conference’s 25th anniversary, it has been
themed “History in the Making.” [
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Friday, March 26 – Sunday, March 28—The 27th Annual Appalachian Studies Conference, Cherokee High School, Cherokee, North Carolina. [ Read More ]
Friday, March 26 – Saturday, March 27—The Kentucky Writer's Workshop, Pine Mountain State Resort Park, Pineville, KY. Featuring Marilyn Dungan, Normandi Ellis, and Bryan Auxier.
Saturday, March 27—The second biennial ETSU Celebration of Books and Authors will be held in the Ballroom at the D. P. Culp Center on the campus of East Tennessee State University. Up to 150 authors are expected to attend. [ Read More ]