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Friday, 11 April 2008 21:57 |
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MAIDEN—Phil Moody, professor of art at Winthrop University, will be one of four panelists appearing at the BIG Read culminating event April 26 in the Maiden High School Auditorium. Moody, a renowned photographer, contributed to “Mill Village: A Piedmont Rhapsody,” a multimedia program to be shown at 7 p.m. that evening. Accompanying the work will be the Charlotte Symphony Ensemble. Panelists will discuss textile mill villages as depicted in Doug Marlette’s novel, The Bridge. The BIG Read is endorsed by Catawba County Library System, Lenoir-Rhyne College, Catawba Valley Community College and Hickory Public Library System. Other sponsors include the N.C. Arts Council, Unifour Foundation Inc. and United Arts Council of Catawba County. |
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Written by Nancy Simpson
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Friday, 11 April 2008 20:45 |
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The new writing studio is located on the grounds at Orchard House, John C. Campbell Folk School (JCCFS) in Brasstown, North Carolina. The school itself is 83 years old, world famous for devotion to arts and crafts The writing program only 13 years old, but the writing studio is brand spanking new. Recently, I had an opportunity to teach the first class in the new studio, with state of the art computers, printer, copier, and all a writer would need including paper, paper. My feet hardly touched ground all week as I watched my students working. Each had a writing space with their own computer and printer set up. We had an oval table to use for critiquing sessions, and we had the living room of Orchard house to sprawl out and relax in for teaching sessions and class discussions. I’ve been teaching writing at the folk school for years, but I have never before seen such a large amount of writing started and finished in one week. The school itself, with all of that creative energy popping, is a magical place to begin with. The new studio is a welcoming and conducive place for writers. I invite you to come write with us for a week. If you have already taken writing classes at the folk school, come back as soon as you can. You may walk on air as I have been doing. You will write, I promise. If you have never been to the folk school, give it serious thought. Get a catalog, read the class descriptions, make your choice. Scholarships are available based on financial need . The school offers half price to those living in specific mountain counties. Call the toll free number, check out the web site or e mail me with your questions at
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Thursday, 10 April 2008 19:52 |
CPCC Presents Literary Awards at Second Annual ArtsFest
Authors to be Honored at Irene Blair Honeycutt Distinguished Lectureship
CPCC's Annual ArtsFest event recognized the significant contribution two authors have made to the field of literary arts. Awards were presented on Wednesday, March 26 at 7.00 p.m. followed by keynote speaker N.C Poet Laureate and Irene Blair Honeycutt Distinguished Lecturer, Kathryn Stripling Byer. The event took place in the Pease Auditorium on CPCC's Central Campus (located in the Hagemeyer Learning Resource Center).
Awards presented included the Irene Blair Honeycutt Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Literary Arts and the Irene Blair Honeycutt Legacy Award.
This year's recipients include: - Irene Blair Honeycutt Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Literary Arts -
- Anthony S. Abbott
- Irene Blair Honeycutt Legacy Award -
- Mary Kratt
Irene Blair Honeycutt Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Literary Arts The Irene Blair Honeycutt Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Literary Arts was established in February, 2004. The Advisory Committee for CPCC's Annual Spring Literary Festival named the award after Irene Honeycutt in recognition of her advocacy of writers and for her service to the Charlotte community and surrounding region as Founding Director of the Festival. The award recognizes outstanding achievement in the field of literary arts, as well as community involvement in support of writers. The award is presented to a community member who is committed to the artistic life, shares skills and talents, produces exemplary art, and has achieved public recognition in the art field. Anthony S. Abbott received this year's award. Born in San Francisco, Abbott was educated at the FaySchool, Southborough, Massachusetts, and at the Kent School in Connecticut. In 1957 he received his A.B. Magna cum laude from Princeton University. With the support of a Danforth fellowship, he acquired his A.M. in 1960 from Harvard University. He received his Ph.D. in 1962. Dr Abbott spent three years instructing English at Bates College, Maine before moving to Davidson College in North Carolina as Assistant Professor of English in 1964. During his tenure at Davidson, he was named a Charles A. Dana Professor of English in 1990 and served as Department Chair from 1989 to1996. Abbott's excellence in teaching was recognized with the Thomas Jefferson Award in 1969 and the Hunter-Hamilton Love of Teaching Award in 1997.
Abbott's first book of poems entitled The Girl in the Yellow Raincoat, (St. Andrews Press, 1989), was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. He also wrote two poetry collections; A Small Thing Like A Breath (St. Andrews Press, 1993) inspired by a visit to the grave of his four-year-old daughter Lynn who died
suddenly in 1967. The Search for Wonder in the Cradle of the World (St Andrews Press, 2000) is reflective of his1993 trip of reawakening and self-discovery to the Middle East. His first novel, Leaving Maggie Hope (Novello Festival Press), won the Novello Award as well as the "Gold Award" from ForeWord Magazine in the literary fiction category. In 2005 his fourth collection of poems, The Man Who, (Main Street Rag Publishing Co.) won the Oscar Arnold Young Award of the N.C. Poetry Council for the best book of poems by a North Carolinian in 2005.
Dr. Abbott has been actively involved in the community serving as past president of the Charlotte Writers Club and the North Carolina Writers Network as well as past Chairman of the North Carolina Writers Conference. He won the Thomas H. McDill Award of the North Carolina Poetry Society three times, and in 1996 was honored by St. Andrews College with the Sam Ragan Award in recognition of his writing and service to the literary community of North Carolina.
Although Dr Abbott officially retired from Davidson College in 2001 to pursue his interests in modern drama, creative writing, literature and religion, he has maintained his reputation for eternal youth by remaining active as an educator, visiting artist, and lecturer. Dr. Abbott and his wife Susan have three sons and seven grandchildren - providing plenty of artistic inspiration. Irene Blair Honeycutt Legacy Award The Irene Blair Honeycutt Legacy Award was established by CPCC's Literary Festival Advisory Committee to honor a community member who has contributed outstanding service in support of local and regional writers. Charlotte author and historian Mary Kratt is this year's recipient. Kratt, born in Beckley, West Virginia, was exposed to literature from an early age. Her father was the editor of the Beckley afternoon newspaper and her mother taught high school English. Upon moving to CharlotteAgnes ScottCollege, Georgia and an M.A. from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She has published 16 books of poetry, history and biography and has won the Blumenthal Writers and Readers Series twice. In 1994 Kratt won the Fortner Writer-in-Community Award from St. Andrews College. More recently her book Small Potatoes earned her the Brockman/Campbell Book Award for poetry in 2000. Her community service includes serving on the Speakers Bureau of the North Carolina Humanities Council, the board of the N.C. Writers Network and as president of the Charlotte Writers' Club. From 1992-1997, Kratt taught English and American Studies part-time at UNC- Charlotte. In 1996, Kratt won a N.C. Arts Council fellowship to the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire.
Kratt's poems have appeared in a broad spectrum of publications including Shenandoah, Tar River Poetry, New Virginia Review, Stone Country, New Mexico Humanities Review, Greensboro Review, Nimrod, and Yankee. Her most recent book is a biography centering around an Eckerd's Drugstore story,
titled Edward M. O'herron, Jr.: An Extraordinary Life, (Loftin Printers, Charlotte, 2006).
Kratt's love of North Carolina goes back to her maternal forbears who settled in Mecklenburg County in the 1700's. She credits her love of the land, of Charlotte and gratitude to mentors as her overriding inspiration. She has three children and three grandchildren and is currently enjoying exploring New England. at age 11, her father joined the Charlotte Observor. Kratt received a B.A. degree from CPCC is the largest community college in North Carolina, offering 100 degree and certification programs, customized corporate training, market-focused continuing education and special interest classes. CPCC is academically, financially and geographically accessible to all citizens of Mecklenburg County. In 2002, the National Alliance of Business named CPCC the Community College of the Year for its response to the workforce and technology needs of local employers and job seekers through innovative educational and training strategies. |
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 10 April 2008 20:01 )
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Written by Virginia Freedman
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Monday, 07 April 2008 10:02 |
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the 2008 Karl von der Heyden
Distinguished
International Lecture
Wole Soyinka
speaking on
FESTAC AGONISTES
the Politics of a Transatlantic Dialogue
Friday
April 18, 2008
5.30 pm
Nasher Museum of Art
2001 Campus Drive
free and open to the public
:Nigerian dramatist and essayist, and 1986 Nobel Prize Laureate for Literature, Wole Soyinka explores the history of FESTAC ‘77, the Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture. FESTAC ’77 set in motion continuing rich exchanges across the Atlantic as minority artists from the Western hemisphere and African artists, works and ideas move back and forth. Yet the talk also raises questions about the influence of one-party states on the tenor of large arts festivals and the freedom of artistic creativity.
Co-sponsors: Karl van der Heyden Distinguished International Lecture Endowment, Thiessen Family International Faculty Endowment, Duke University Center for International Studies, the Office of the Vice Provost for International Affairs, the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, and the Department of African and African American Studies
Also join us on Thursday, April 17th at 5.30 pm at the John Hope Franklin Center in room 240 for a panel discussion on "Nigeria: the Politics of Culture" with Andrew Apter, anthropologist, UCLA; Yomi Durotoye, political scientist, Wake Forest University, and Olu Oguibe, visual artist, the University of Connecticut. |
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 09 April 2008 20:46 )
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Wednesday, 02 April 2008 06:21 |
Acclaimed author and poet Ron Rash will conduct a reading at Catawba Valley Community College 7 p.m., Saturday, April 5, in the college library.
Rash will read from his book of poems “Eureka Mill,” as part of the 2008 BIG Read, a community-wide literacy effort focused on The Bridge, a novel about the 1934 Textile Strike in North Carolina.
“Eureka Mill” is about the migration of poor Buncombe County farmers to a mill village outside Chester, S.C. Rash’s grandparents and parents worked in the Eureka Mill, and the poems reflect his family’s personal experiences with mill life.
The reading is free, and the public is invited.
Rash holds the John Parris Chair in Appalachian Studies at Western Carolina University and is the author of three novels, three short-story collections and three books of poetry.
In 1994, Rash was awarded an NEA Poetry Fellowship, and he won the Sherwood Anderson Prize in 1996. In 2001, he won the Novella Festival Novel Award, and in 2002 the Foreword Magazine’s Gold Medal in Literary Fiction for “One Foot in Eden.” The novel was also named Appalachian Book of the Year.
His second novel, “Saints at the River,” was named Fiction Book of the Year by both the Southern Book Critics Circle and the Southeastern Booksellers Association. In 2005 Rash won an O. Henry award for his story, Speckled Trout, which appeared in the collection “Chemistry and Other Stories,” and received the James Still Award by the Fellowship of Southern Writers.
In 2006, he received the Sir Walter Raleigh Award for “The World Made Straight,” his third novel.
His poetry and fiction have appeared in over 100 journals, magazines, and anthologies, including “The Longman Anthology of Southern Literature,” “Western Wind,” “Sewanee Review,” “Yale Review,” “Georgia Review,” “Kenyon Review,” “New England Review,” “Southern Review,” “Shenandoah” and “Poetry.”
Rash’s family has lived in the southern Appalachian Mountains since the mid-1700’s, and it is this region that is the primary focus of his writing. Rash grew up in Boiling Springs, North Carolina, and graduated from Gardner-Webb College and Clemson University.
The April 5 reading is free and open to the public. For more information call Tim Peeler, (828) 327-7000, extension 4382. |
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Hat's Off!
| ...to Dody Williams Her story "Baba" will be published in the February issue of Read This Magazine. Read This Magazine is a literary magazine associated with the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. The editor, Claire Askew, wrote the following about Dody's story: "We were very impressed by "Baba"- it was not only skillfully written but very moving-beautifully done, a gread read. I hope you'll continue writing, and maybe submit to us again in the future!" |
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