On Thursday, April 20, 2017 at 7:00 PM, the John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, NC,
and NC Writers Network- West are sponsoring The
Literary Hour, an hour of poetry and prose reading held at Keith House on
the JCFS campus. This event is normally held the third Thursday of the month unless
otherwise notified. The reading is free
of charge and open to the public. Poets and writers Janice Townley Moore and Marcia
Hawley Barnes will be the featured readers. Both of these writers are widely
published and their readings are always events that entertain.
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| Janice Townley Moore |
Janice Townley Moore, Professor
Emeritus of English at Young Harris College, published a chapbook, Teaching the Robins, with Finishing Line Press in 2005. Her poems have appeared in Georgia
Review, Prairie Schooner, Southern Poetry Review, Connecticut Review, Journal
of the American Medical Association, and in many anthologies. Her latest
poem was published in Coming Off the Line: The Car in American Culture,
published by Main Street Rag. An active member of the North Carolina Writers’
Network, she is coordinator for the poetry critique group which meets at
Tri-County Community College.
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| Marcia Hawley Barnes |
Marcia Hawley Barnes,is a Georgia writer and poet. She is a member of the North Carolina Writers’ Network, NetWest, and Ridgeline Literary Alliance. Ms. Barnes celebrated the American family and cuisine in 2008, when she researched, illustrated, and published The Little Book of Secret Family Recipes. A heritage cookbook, the collection contains favorite recipes found in the archives of her family. In 2016, her first children’s book, Tobijah, illustrated by Doreyl Ammons Cain, was published by Catch the Spirit of Appalachia. The book was nominated for the Georgia Author of the Year Award in 2017. Her poetry has been published in Stone, River, Sky, An Anthology of Georgia Poems. The author also writes a monthly book review for a local newspaper, Clay County Progress
