On Thursday, November 21, 2019, at 7:00 PM, John C. Campbell
Folk School and NC Writers' Network-West (NCWN-West) will sponsor The Literary
Hour, where NCWN-West members will read at the Keith House’s Community Room on
the JCCFS campus, in Brasstown, NC. This event is typically held on the third
Thursday of the month, is free of charge and open to the public. This month's
featured readers will be Linda Grayson Jones, Meagan Lucas, and Janice Townley
Moore.
Linda Grayson Jones, a poetry devotee since childhood, has a
B.S. in Biology from
Jones is currently an Associate Professor of Biology and
Dean of Math and Science at Young Harris College. She remains a reader and
writer of poetry.
Janice Moore is an Associate Professor Emerita of English at
Young Harris College. Her poems have
appeared in numerous journals including The Georgia Review, Prairie
Schooner, Connecticut Review, Southern Poetry Review, Poetry East,
and The Journal of the American Medical Association.
Moore's chapbook, Teaching the Robins, was published
by Finishing Line Press. Among the anthologies that include her poems are The
Bedford Introduction to Literature, and three volumes of: The Southern
Poetry Anthology: Contemporary Appalachia, Georgia, and North Carolina, from
Texas Review Press.
Moore is coordinator of the NCWN-West’s poetry critique
group and is on the poetry editorial board of The Pharos, publication of
Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society.
Meagan Lucas teaches English at Asheville-Buncombe Technical
Community College and is the Fiction Editor at Barren Magazine. Meagan has a BA
in History from Wilfrid Laurier University, an M.Ed in Curriculum and
Instruction from Ferris State University, and an MA in English and Creative
Writing from Southern New Hampshire University.
Meagan’s stories have been published in a variety of
journals including: Four Ties Literary Review, Santa Fe Writers Project, The
Same Literary Journal, The New Southern Fugitives, Barren
Magazine and Still: The Journal. Lucas won the 2017 Scythe
Prize for Fiction, was the runner up in the 2017 SNHU Fall Fiction Competition,
and a Judge’s Choice finalist in the 2018 Still: The Journal Fiction
competition. Her story “Voluntary Action” was nominated by Still: The
Journal for a 2019 Pushcart Prize.
Her first novel, Songbirds and Stray Dogs was
published by Main Street Rag Publishing Company in August 2019.
For more information on this event, contact Mary Ricketson at:
