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Tuesday, September 127:00 pm - 8:30 pmAshe Arts CenterThis event is free and open to the public, no registration required. Join us to kick off the 2023 On the Same Page Literary Festival at the Ashe Arts Center for a reading with author Brendan Slocumb. The reading will feature an introductory performance by local youth […]
Crossing the Line: The Role of Thresholds in Successful Stories Wednesday, September 13Ashe County Public Library8:30 am - 10:30 amThis event is free but registration is required. Writing Workshop Summary “In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between them, there are doors.”― William Blake Why does the position […]
Wednesday, September 1311:00 am - 11:45 amAshe County Public LibraryFree and open to the publicNo registration required Join us for a special presentation with Our State Editor Elizabeth Hudson on Philip Gerard. A native of Delaware and graduate of the University of Delaware with a BA in English and Anthropology, Philip Gerard was the author […]
Wednesday, September 132:00 pm - 2:45 pmAshe County Public LibraryThis event is free & open to the public.No registration required. Join us for a reading with debut novelist, Patti Frye Meredith. Set in Carthage, North Carolina in 1998, South of Heaven tells the story of two estranged sisters forced back under the same roof. Fern […]
Wednesday, September 133:30 pm - 4:15 pmAshe County Public LibraryThis event is free and open to the public, no registration required. Join us for a reading with Barbara Benson with time for audience Q&A. Barbara’s creative debut, While Notre Dame Burned: A Memoir of Love, Loss and Learning to Live Alone, was published in 2022.BARBARA […]
Date: Wednesday, Sep. 136 pm - 8 pm Topic: Setting The Hook: Why Fiction Must Grab Readers EarlyLocation: Ashe County Public LibraryThis workshop is free but registration is required as space is limited. DAVID JOY David Joy is the author of When These Mountains Burn (winner of the 2020 Dashiell Hammett Award), The Line That Held […]
Thursday, September 14 9:30 am - 10:15 am Ashe County Public Library This event is free & open to the public. Registration is not required. Join us for a reading with author De'Shawn Charles Winslow. Winslow's latest book Decent People is a sweeping and unforgettable novel of a Black community reeling from a triple homicide, and […]
Thursday, September 1411:00 am - 11:45 amAshe County Public LibraryThis event is free and open to the public. No prior registration required. Enjoy a reading with author Wayne Caldwell, whose latest publication, Woodsmoke, features a poetry collection that renders the experience of living out life in a single, exquisite place. There will be time for […]
Thursday, September 142:00 pm - 2:45 pmAshe County Public LibraryThis event is free and open to the public.Registration is not required. Join us for a reading with historian Anne Chesky Smith. In her latest book, Murder at Asheville’s Battery Park Hotel: The Search for Helen Clevenger’s Killer, she weaves together varying accounts of the murder […]
Thursday, September 144:30 pm - 5:15 pmOld Orchard Creek General StoreFree and open to the public.No registration required. Join award-winning author David Joy for a talk on the topic of his work as editor for Gather at the River: Twenty-five Authors on Fishing, an anthology of twenty-five remarkable essays on fishing from an ensemble of […]
Thursday, September 147:00 pm - 8:00 pmAshe Arts CenterThis event is free and open to the public.Registration is not required. Join us for a Panel Discussion with Authors Wayne Caldwell, Marjorie Hudson, and De'Shawn Charles Winslow. Our panel moderator will be Georgann Eubanks. Each of these three writers has produced a recent book grounded in […]
Fiction: The Extraordinary Power of Reversal Friday, September 159 am - 11 amAshe County Public LibraryThis event is free but registration is required. Registration for this workshop will open on Thursday, August 10. Workshop Summary: What’s on the first page of your story? What’s on the last? Through the techniques of reversal, you can craft […]
Registration for the luncheon has ended and the event is full. Friday, September 1511:30 am - 1:30 pmAshe County Public Library Join us for the Literary Trails Luncheon with author Georgann Eubanks. This year Georgann takes us on the trail to see some special birds in Alabama, to Georgia’s Okefenokee Swamp where tall tales and […]
Friday, September 152:00 pm - 2:45 pmAshe County Public LibraryThis event is free & open to the public.Registration is not required. Join us for a reading with author Marjorie Hudson whose debut, Indigo Field, is a novel of the contemporary South and the weight of centuries of hidden history. Indigo Field has already won attention […]
Friday, September 15 3:30 pm - 4:15 pm Ashe County Public Library Free and open to the public. No registration required. Join award-winning author David Joy for a reading. Joy’s searing new novel, Those We Thought We Knew, is about the cracks that form in a small North Carolina community and the evils that unfurl […]
Date: Friday, September 156 pm - 8 pm Topic: Capturing Place: The Intersectionality of a Landscape and PeopleLocation: Ashe County Public LibraryThis workshop is free but registration is required as space is limited. DAVID JOY David Joy is the author of When These Mountains Burn (winner of the 2020 Dashiell Hammett Award), The Line That Held […]
Saturday, September 1610:00 am - 10:45 amAshe County Public LibraryThis event is free and open to the public, no registration required. Join us for a reading with Mark de Castrique with time for audience Q&A. Mark's latest book, Dangerous Women, is described as a bewitching political thriller by Publishers Weekly.MARK DE CASTRIQUE Mystery writer Mark de […]