Falling Into Place
In his O. Henry Award-winning short story “Speckle Trout,” Ron Rash writes of the mountain fish’s “water-flesh” gleaming like mica in “spring-flow gaps.” A…
Read MoreIn his O. Henry Award-winning short story “Speckle Trout,” Ron Rash writes of the mountain fish’s “water-flesh” gleaming like mica in “spring-flow gaps.” A…
Read MoreShe didn’t have high-tech gear or a degree in outdoor education. In fact, she didn’t even have a backpack or a sleeping bag. All…
Read MoreBold Life’s coverage area is blooming with enough literary festivals this spring to fill a beautifully plotted garden. Lanier Library’s month-long poetry fest is…
Read MoreAuthor and Hendersonville native Robert Morgan wrote his first piece of fiction in 6th grade. His class took a field trip to the Biltmore…
Read MoreDecades ago, Brevard College English professor Kenneth Chamlee, then an undergraduate at Mars Hill College, headed west. For him — a Greenville, S.C. native…
Read MoreCathy Smith Bowers has an unfeasible ambition for poetry. “My goal in life is to have everybody in the world write at least one…
Read MoreIn his epic poem “The Waste Land,” T.S. Eliot called April “the cruelest month, breeding/Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing/Memory and desire, stirring/Dull…
Read MoreLast November, the North Carolina Writers Network celebrated its 30th anniversary with a three-day conference in Asheville. With around 1,400 members, the NCWN is…
Read MoreWriting is often a solitary act. Sitting alone with a paper and pen (or, more likely, keyboard and screen) can feel isolating when fellow…
Read MoreWhat will save print books from online oblivion? The so-called “maker” lifestyle, some predict. It’s true that handsomely photographed, coffeetable-style DIY books about cooking,…
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