Please tell us about additional literary events to include!
Thursday, May 16, 6:30 p.m., Hub City Bookshop, Spartanburg, SC. Hub City Bookshop will be hosting a reading by Ron Rash and George Singleton in celebration of the release of Grit Lit, an anthology of contemporary writing about the Rough South in which their works appear. For more information, please go here.
Monday, June 3 – Friday, June 7, 2013, 51st Summer Creative Writing Conference, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY This year’s conference features a stellar list of visiting writers, including Jason Howard. EKU creative writing faculty participating in the conference include conference director Young Smith. For more information, please go here.
Friday, June 7, 2013, 7:30 p.m., Celebration of Spring 2013 issue of Appalachian Heritage, Featured Author Wilma Dykeman (1920-2006), Loyal Jones Appalachian Center, Berea, KY.
Monday, June 9 – Friday, June 14, 2013, Tinker Mountain Writers’ Workshop, Hollins University, Roanoke, VAA week long writing workshop located in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Faculty will include Thorpe Moeckel, contributor to Appalachian Heritage, and Pinckney Benedict, featured author of our Winter 2010 issue. For more information, please go here.
Friday, June 14 – Sunday, June 16, 2013, The Mountain Heritage Literary Festival, Lincoln Memorial University, Harrogate, TN. Keynote speaker will be Appalachian Heritage contributor, Joseph Bathanti. Meredith Sue Willis, our featured author for Fall 2006, will be teaching fiction. Appalachian Heritage contributor Connie Jordan Green will be teaching writing for young people. Another contributor to our magazine, Ann Shelby, will lead the closing event at the festival. For more information, please go here.
Friday, June 21 – Saturday, June 22, 2013, High Country Festival of the Book, Watauga High School, Boone, NC Features our Fall 2004 featured author, Sharon McCrumb, as well as writers Amy Clark and Kathryn Stripling Byer. For more information, please go here.
Sunday, June 23 – Saturday, June 29, 2013, Appalachian Young Writers’ Workshop, Lincoln Memorial University, Harrogate, TN A week long workshop for young writers in the region. Faculty includes Darnell Arnoult, featured author of our Winter 2007 issue, and Appalachian Heritage contributors Jesse Graves and Jim Minick. For more information, please go here.
Friday, July 12 – Sunday, July 14, 2013, 13th Annual Writing in Place Conference, Wofford College, Spartanburg, SC. For more information, please go here.
Thursday, July 11 – Sunday, July 14, 2013, Squire Summer Writing Residency, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC Staff includes Kathryn Stripling Byer, a contributor to Appalachian Heritage. For more information, please go here.
Friday, July 12—Sunday, July 14, 2013, 13th Annual Writing in Place conference, Wofford College, Spartanburg, South Carolina. This year's conference will feature a keynote address by bestselling novelist Wiley Cash who will be our featured author for the Winter 2014 issue. Among the faculty for the conference will be Jim Minick, a contributor to Appalachian Heritage. For more information, please go here.
Monday, July 15 – Friday July 19, 2013, Highland Summer Writers’ Conference, Radford University, Radford, VA The one-week intensive workshop will be team-taught by well-known guest writers, George Ella Lyon, featured author of our Summer 2010 issue, and Diane Gilliam. For more information, please go here.
Friday, July 18 – Sunday, July 21, 2013, West Virginia Writers’ Workshop, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV For more information, please go here.
Tuesday, July 23 – Sunday, August 4, 2013, Sewannee Writers’ Conference, The University of the South, Sewanee, TN Poetry faculty includes Maurice Manning, a contributor to Appalachian Heritage. For more information, please go here.
Sunday, July 28 – Friday, August 2, 2013, 36th Annual Appalachian Writers Workshop, Hindman Settlement School, Hindman, KY The Writers Workshop provides an opportunity for aspiring and accomplished writers to immerse themselves in a community of people who appreciate Appalachian literature and who hail from and/or write about the region. For more information, please go here.
Friday, September 20 – Saturday, September 21, 2013, “Rooted in the Mountains: Valuing our Common Ground”, 4th Annual Symposium Integrating Indigenous Knowledge, Language, Health, and Environment, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC. Rooted in the Mountains is designed to raise awareness of the intersection of health, language, environmental, and indigenous issues with the stewardship of Appalachia and its resources. Keynote speakers for this event are Ron Rash (an Appalachian Heritage featured author) and Rodney B. Lewis. For more information, please go here.
