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Wednesday, September 1811:00 am - 11:45 amAshe County Public LibraryThis event is free and open to the public, no registration required. Join us for a reading with Martin Clark with time for audience Q&A. The author of a half dozen fast-paced legal thrillers, Martin Clark is a retired circuit court judge who graduated from Davidson College […]

Wednesday, September 1182:00 PM - 2:45 PMAshe County Public LibraryThis event is free and open to the public, no registration required. Join us for a reading with Denton Loving with time for audience Q&A. Denton Loving is the author of the poetry collections Crimes Against Birds and Tamp. He is a co-founder and editor at EastOver […]

Wednesday, September 183:30 PM - 4:15 PMAshe County Public LibraryThis event is free and open to the public, no registration required. Join us for a reading with Meredith Ritchie with time for audience Q&A. Meredith Ritchie is the debut author of Poster Girls. Set in North Carolina during WWII, the novel is based on true but […]

Date: Wednesday, September 186:00 PM - 8:00 PM Topic:Using Other People’s Stories to Make Art, A Craft Talk with Jim Minick Location: Ashe County Public Library While it might sound easy, you can’t just use someone else’s story, at least not without risks. This workshop will explore the how’s, why’s, and hazards, and offer some […]

Date: Thursday, September 198:30 am – 10:30 am Topic: Creating Compelling Characters, A Fiction Workshop with Meagan Church This workshop will focus on how to write empathetic and compelling characters that will hold the reader’s attention and engage a contemporary audience. Location: Ashe County Public LibraryThis workshop is free but registration is required as space […]

Thursday, September 1911:00 am - 11:45 am Ashe County Public LibraryThis event is free and open to the public, no registration required. Join us for a reading with Jim Minick with time for audience Q&A. Serving as the 2024 Appalachian Writer in Residence, Jim Minick explores the places and people of Appalachia in poetry, fiction, and […]

Thursday, September 193:30 pm - 4:15 pm Ashe County Public LibraryThis event is free and open to the public, no registration required. Join us for a reading with Tommy Tomlinson with time for audience Q&A. Tommy Tomlinson is the author of Dogland: Passion, Glory, and Lots of Slobber at the Westminster Dog Show andThe Elephant in […]

Date: Thursday, September 196:00 PM - 8:00 PM Topic: Playing with Time, A Craft Talk with Jim Minick Location: Ashe County Public Library Every time we write, we play with time, often without realizing it. So, how? In this workshop we’ll explore the diverse ways writers manipulate time on the page. This craft talk is […]

Friday, September 2010:00 am - 10:45 am Ashe County Public LibraryThis event is free and open to the public, no registration required. Join us for a reading with KB Ballentine with time for audience Q&A. Poet KB Ballentine earned an M.A. in Writing from the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing, Poetry […]

Friday, September 2011:30 am - 12:15 pm Ashe County Public LibraryThis event is free and open to the public, no registration required. Join us for a reading with Monic Ductan with time for audience Q&A. Born and raised in Georgia, Monic Ductan earned degrees in English and creative writing from Georgia State University (BA), Georgia College […]

Friday, September 201:00 pm - 3:00 pmAshe County Public Library Join us for the Literary Trails Luncheon with author Georgann Eubanks. This year Georgann will highlight a new collection of essays that examines the life and selected works from North Carolina’s most distinguished playwright of the twentieth century, Paul Eliot Green (1894–1981). The essays come from […]