Fiction writer Lee Smith will be speaking at the Spring Literary Festival on April 6, at 7:30 p.m. in the Coulter Recital Hall and she is expected to draw a very large crowd. Smith will be reading from her recently published novel Dimestore, a memoir about Smith herself and about a time and place that most […]
Local poet and novelist Darnell Arnoult
April 7, 2016 by
Poet and novelist Darnell Arnoult will be joining us at the Spring Literary Festival on April 6, at 4 p.m. in the UC Theater and she will be reading from her collection of poems titled What Travels With Us and her fiction novel Sufficient Grace. Arnoult was born and raised in Henry County, Virginia, but […]
Puerto Rican-American writer Judith Ortiz Cofer
April 7, 2016 by
Latina poet, fiction and nonfiction writer Judith Ortiz Cofer, will be speaking on Tuesday, April 5, at 7:30 p.m. in the UC Theater as part of the WCU Spring Literary Festival. She will be touching on her stories about coming-of-age experiences in Puerto Rican communities outside of New York City and her poems and essays […]
International best-selling author Bret Anthony Johnston
April 6, 2016 by
To continue the second day of WCU’s Spring Literary Festival, following up Lauren K. Alleyne and Denton Loving will be fiction and nonfiction writer Bret Anthony Johnston. Johnston will be appearing in the UC Theater on Tuesday, April 5, at 4 p.m. where he will be reading from a few of his books including Remember […]
Time for poetry and prose… and beautiful words
April 1, 2016 by
Each year, for the past 14 years, Western Carolina University has held an annual Spring Literary Festival to reflect WCU’s commitment to providing the best humanities education possible for its students and to bring the best of the arts to the heart of the WNC Mountains. The Festival is a 4-day long event where both established […]
In a company of Major Jackson and his “Holding Company”
March 31, 2016 by
American poet Major Jackson will be speaking at the 2016 Spring Literary Festival on Monday, April 4, at 7:30 p.m. in the UC Theater, and he will be reading from his most recent collection of poems titled Holding Company. Jackson is the Richard Dennis Green and Gold Professor at the University of Vermont and a faculty […]
