On Wednesday, November 14, 2018, 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. (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 Carol
Crawford and Janice Townley Moore.
Carol Crawford has published short fiction, nonfiction, and
poetry in the Southern Humanities Review, Appalachian Heritage, the Concho
River Review, the Chattahoochee Review, the Journal of Kentucky Studies, and
others. Her latest essay,” Deliveries,” was in the April 2018 issue of Adelaide
online magazine. She is owner of Carol Crawford Editing and author of The Habit of Mercy, Poems about Daughters
and Mothers.
Crawford has taught workshops for the Dahlonega Literary
Festival, the John C. Campbell Folk School, the Blue Ridge Mountains Arts
Association, the Red Clay Writers’ Conference, the Carrollton Writers’ Club,
and the Writers’ Circle. She has been program coordinator for the annual Blue
Ridge Writers’ Conference since its inception more than twenty years ago.
Crawford and her husband live in the north Georgia mountains with three opinionated
rescue mutts. Carol is originally from Texas and visits regularly for a fix of
big sky, prairie, and sour cream chicken enchiladas. Visit Carol Crawford's
website at: carolcrawfordediting.com/.
Janice Townley Moore lives in Hayesville, NC, is an Atlanta native
and 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 serves as the coordinator of
the North Carolina Writers Network Poetry Critique group and is on the poetry
editorial board of The Pharos, publication of Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical
Society.
For more information, please contact Mary Ricketson at
maryricketson311@hotmail.com
