Blair, based in Durham, has just re-released Silas House’s Appalachian trilogy in new paperback editions: Clay’s Quilt, reintroduced by Americana musician Tyler Childers A Parchment of Leaves, with appreciation from author Amy Greene The Coal Tattoo, with notes from Silas House himself Silas House gave the Keynote Address at the NCWN 2011 Fall Conference […]
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Come See Us at Bookmarks!
Wednesday, September 5, 2018
The North Carolina Writers’ Network will have an exhibitor’s booth at the 2018 Bookmarks Festival of Books and Authors this Saturday, September 8, in downtown Winston-Salem. Come by and say hello! We’ll be sponsoring two sessions of Slush Pile Live!, an interactive event for aspiring writers to get immediate feedback on their work from editors […]
The Spring 2018 Okra Picks
Friday, April 6, 2018
Our friends at the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance have released their Spring, 2018, Okra Picks, “a season’s worth of delicious reading with a Southern flavor.” There’s a new novel from North Carolina author Charles Frazier (Varina, dedicated to Nancy Olson, the founder and former longtime owner of Quail Ridge Books in Raleigh); Country Dark, the […]
KWLS Offers Podcasts of Beloved Authors
Monday, February 25, 2013
Imagine running on a treadmill listening to a laugh-out loud lecture by Allan Gurganus. Or imagine your morning commute: wouldn’t you look forward to it more if you could listen to a keynote address by Lee Smith? And wouldn’t the winter be just a little more tolerable if you could listen to Silas House read […]
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Monday, September 12, 2011
I went this afternoon to the Network’s post office box, where I saw the driver of a red Corvette pulled over for speeding on Town Run Lane. For those of you not familiar with downtown Winston-Salem, Town Run Lane is a short little avenue that runs behind the courthouse, so it’s always crowded with police […]