The Softer Side of Appalachia
Flat Rock author’s debut novel garners latest award In the canon of Southern Appalachian fiction, Meagan Lucas makes for unlikely company. First and foremost, the…
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Bloody Madison
Stuck in the past with Ron Rash’s The World Made Straight William Faulkner once observed of the South that “the past is never dead, it…
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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…
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The Write Time
Last 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…
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