The conference keynote presentation, set for 8 pm Friday evening, Nov. 18, features award-winning author Silas House, who's been active in the fight against mountaintop removal mining in Appalachia — the process of dynamiting the tops off mountains to reach a seam of coal. The practice is ecologically destructive, releasing tons of soil along with toxins such as heavy metals.
House is the award-winning author of four novels: Clay’s Quilt (2001), A Parchment of Leaves (2003), The Coal Tattoo (2004), and Eli the Good (2009); two plays, The Hurting Part (2005) and Long Time Travelling (2009); and Something’s Rising (2009), a creative nonfiction book about social protest co-authored with Jason Howard. He is a two-time winner of the Kentucky Novel of the Year, and an Appalachian Writer of the Year, among many other honors. He serves as Chair of Appalachian Studies at Berea College and on the fiction faculty at Spalding University’s MFA in Creative Writing program.
The North Carolina Writers' Network offers programs to serve writers at every stage of development. The Network builds audiences for literature, advocates for the literary arts and for literacy, and provides information and support services. For more about the Writers' Network and this year's conference, point your web browser to http://avl.mx/proo. To view Silas House's website, featuring his regular blogs, tour schedule and more, see http://avl.mx/prop .
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By ashvegas
11/15/2011
How do I sign up for this conference next year. I am a recently published North Carolina author and am just finding out about these gatherings.
Thank you,
Sarah Martin Byrd
By Sarah Martin Byrd
11/17/2011