The North Carolina Writers’ Network-West’s Literary Hour returns to the John C.Campbell Folk School on Thursday, August 18, 2022, at 7 p.m., after a two-year hiatus during the pandemic. The event will be held in the Open House. The Literary Hour is free and open to the public.
The
featured writers for August are Brenda Kay Ledford and Glenda Beall.
Brenda Kay Ledford, a seventh-generational native of Clay County,
North Carolina, is an award-winning author, blogger, and retired educator. Her
work has appeared in many journals including Asheville Poetry Review, Our
State, Appalachian Heritage, Chicken Soup for the Soul, Guidepost
Magazine, 49 Old Mountain Press anthologies, and many other publications.
She writes about nature and wants to help preserve the culture of this region.
She's received the Paul Green Multimedia Award from North Carolina Society of
Historians thirteen times for her books. Ledford will read poetry from her
latest book, Blanche, Poetry of a Blue Ridge Woman, which was released
by Redhawk Publishing in 2021.
Brenda Kay Ledford
Glenda Council Beall
Glenda Beall serves as program coordinator for the North Carolina Writers’ Network-West. Her essays, poetry, and short stories have been published in magazines and literary journals as well as online. Her poetry chapbook, Now Might as Well be Then, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2009. She has co-authored a collection of stories, poems, and essays Paws, Claws, Hooves, Feathers and Fins, Family Pets and God’s Other Creatures.
Much of
her writing is filled with stories about horses, dogs, and cats that have been
a part of her family. Her love of genealogy led her to compile stories of her
grandfather and his ten children in Profiles and Pedigrees, The Descendants
of Thomas Charles Council (1858 – 1911). Beall’s online classes, Writers
Circle around the Table, and classes for the Institute of Continuing Learning
reach people from all over the country. She will read her creative non-fiction as well as short stories.
The Literary Hour will be held on the third Thursday of the month through November at John C. Campbell Folk School in the roofed and open pavilion of the Open House. From Clays Corner in Brasstown turn onto Brasstown Road, then turn left on Scoggins Road then left again to pass Davidson Hall. Or coming from Marsh Creek, turn right onto Davidson Road and follow around to Open House. Parking is in front near the vegetable gardens.
Anyone with a love of the written word will be transported by the talent of each month’s featured writers. Contact Patricia Zick at pczick23@gmail.com for further information.
Patricia Zick
I am very excited to be a part of the return of the Literary Hour this month.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful post, beautiful people. See you there!
ReplyDeleteThanks Pat for organizing the literary House and hosting us there.
ReplyDeleteRaven, thanks so much for your kind words. I will look forward to seeing you there.
ReplyDeletePat, I mean Literary Hour
ReplyDeleteWe had a wonderful time Thursday evening at the Literary Hour held at the Open House on the campus of the John C. Campbell Folk School. We had about 25 people in the audience and they were enthusiastic. It was good to be with old friends again after our isolation for so long. Thanks, Pat.
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