Enjoy Mountains of Literary Riches at NCWN’s Fall Conference ASHEVILLE—The North Carolina Writers’ Network calls this “The Writingest State”—all of it, Manteo to Murphy, Calabash to Crumpler. We find and welcome writers from all parts of North Carolina, with no city or region holding a monopoly on literary talent or output. But we have to […]
Allen Mendenhall Interviews Lorna Hollifield, Author of “Tobacco Sun”
August 14, 2017 by Leave a Comment
AM: Thanks, Lorna, for doing this interview. The title of your debut novel is Tobacco Sun. I want to ask you about that title, but first I want to quote from some opening lines of the book. “Tobacco,” you say, “a strangely fragile, yet willful crop, desperate for survivorship, proved it could somehow adapt to […]
“The Lacuna,” by Barbara Kingsolver
December 14, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Reviewed by Bonnie Armstrong Barbara Kingsolver’s first novel in ten years, The Lacuna, opens with the words: “In the beginning were the howlers.” The howlers are monkeys on an island off the coast of Mexico, and the year is 1929. Born in the United States, Harrison William Shepherd spent his boyhood in Mexico with his […]
North Carolina Writers’ Network’s Annual Fall Conference
October 18, 2011 by Leave a Comment
North Carolina Writers’ Network’s Annual Fall Conference November 18-20, 2011 Asheville, NC The NCWN Fall Conference, first held in 1985, has grown into one of the nation’s largest and most inclusive writers’ conferences. Registration for the 2011 Fall Conference is now open at www.ncwriters.org.