On Thursday, October 17, 2019, at 7:00 PM, John C. Campbell
Folk School and NC Writers' Network-West will sponsor The Literary Hour. At
this event, NCWN-West members will read at the Keith House on the JCCFS campus,
in Brasstown, NC. This event is now held in the community room. The Literary
Hour is held on the third Thursday of the month unless otherwise indicated.
This reading is free of charge and open to the public. This month's featured
readers will be Glenda Council Beall, James F. I. Davis, and Mary Michelle
Brodine Keller.
Glenda Council Beall moved from southwest Georgia to
Hayesville, North Carolina in 1995; it has been home ever since. Her poetry,
essays and short stories have been published online, in magazines and in
literary journals. Beall’s poetry chapbook, Now Might as Well be Then,
was published by Finishing Line Press in 2009. She co-authored a collection of
stories, poems and articles in 2018, Paws, Claws, Hooves, Feathers and Fins,
Family Pets and God’s Other Creatures.
One of her hobbies is genealogy. In 1998 she compiled
stories about her grandfather and his ten children and the hardback book, Profiles
and Pedigrees, The Descendants of Thomas Charles Council (1858 – 1911).
Beall teaches writing in her studio, Writers Circle around
the Table, the Institute of Continuing Learning, and Tri-County Community
College. She serves as program coordinator for the North Carolina Writers’
Network-West.
James F. I. Davis
grew up on a family farm, got a degree in Economics from Cornell University, an
MBA in International Business from The American University, and spent three
years in the US Army, leaving as a Captain. Davis was an international banker
for most of his working years, lived in Europe and Latin America, and traveled
to more than 50 countries during his career.
Several hundred of Davis’ articles have been published, mostly
about finance, economics and the effects of government policies on people's
standard of living. Recently he has been writing mostly humorous stories about
interesting people and/or unique situations he encountered while traveling the
world for business and pleasure. He hopes to turn these stories into an
entertaining novel. His first literary attempt garnered second place in a
national short story contest.
Mary Michelle Brodine Keller, or Mary Mike as she is often
called by her friends, writes poetry, essays, and short fiction. She draws her
subject matter from things she sees or experiences, putting meaning to them.
She is also a visual artist, painting in oil, watercolors and pastels. She likes to think of her poetry as painting
with words.
Her poems have been published in The Mountain Lynx, and in
anthologies: Freeing Jonah III and IV, Lights in the Mountains, Echos
Across the Blueridge, Stories, Essays and Poems by Writers Living in and
Inspired by the Southern Appalachian Mountains and various other
publications. She calls herself a reader, reading to others in a variety of
settings, and finding that more satisfying than publication, as it is a shared
experience.
For more information regarding this event, contact Mary
Ricketson at: maryricketson311@hotmail.com.
