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State legislature push to control  Asheville's water

1st public hearing , Raleigh, Jan. 23--televised (click NCLeg.Net at 2 p.m.).   Hearing in Asheville, late February.  Learn more at Save Asheville's Water.  See Citizen-Times article.

New WNC Books include:

fish-think; WNC travel guide; snake-handling mystery; Cherokee studies & more. Read review of Gills & travel guide.

David Madden's novel-writing workshop

Read aboutauthor's 1-week retreat, Feb. 20-25; and about his advice on revising fiction.

See video: A Madden fave--The Waveby Evelyn Scott.

YA Authors write about , local school focus on bullying

Read the story.

Bill Branyon raves about

MacTiernan's Bottle. 

Read his review

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Chaos theory and local history

Read about  1890 tobacco history and it's meaning for the New Year.

Two local guys from the 25th

Lenoir was an old man with a young wife; Henderson,   a simple farmer who turned to prayer,  Read more.

Forrest Jarrett, Railroad Police

Read about the legendary life of the Madison County native who outfoxed outlaws and wooed world beaters.

Terrell Garren's Civil War in Henderson book

Historian and author Terrell Garren ramps up his research into every soldier's story in Henderson County.  Keep up to date on his blog.

Headliners

Marijo Moore offers spiritual wisdom

About our time of change:

"Not only is there fear coming from the falling of the masculine energies, there is also fear rising as the feminine energies rise."

Read her blog.

Book Discussions

Swamplandia by Karen Russell is the subject  of Book Discussion X,    March 8, 7 p.m., at Accent on Books.  

See other events.
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Author Events

Poet doris davenport

Stunnning performance poet is at City Lights Bookstore with new book, "ascent," Feb. 4.

See more authors.

See full calendar.

Author Features

Heather Newton

Author of Under the Mercy Trees leads one day workshop, "Creating Your Writing Life," at the Unitarian Universalist Church in North Asheville, Feb. 11..

To register, see Flatiron Writers.

See more authors.

WNC Community Read

Read about: the book, local background,  programs, and participation. 

Learn about participants and the sponsor, Mountain Lit.  

New WNC Books

WNC Classics

WNC Authors

Workshops, Festivals, Contests  

Writer's Resource 

Study Resource

Regular Programs

Blogs & Mags

Spoken Word Festivals and Showcases

Bookstores (mouseover for info)

• Accent on Books
• B. Dalton Bookseller
• Barnes & Noble
• Battery Park Book Exchange
  
• Blue Ridge Books & Cafe
• Books-A-Million
• The Captain's Bookshelf
• City Lights Bookstore
• Cyrano's Bookshop
• Family Christian Stores
• Fireside Bookstore
• Firestorm Cafe and Books
• The Fountainhead Bookstore
• Joy of Books
• Malaprop's Bookstore Cafe
• Montford Books & More
• Once Upon a Time Children's Books and Educational Gifts
• Spellbound Children's Books
• Waldenbooks

Libraries

• Avery, Mitchell, and Yancey County
• Buncombe County
• Fontana Regional Library
• Haywood County
• Henderson County
• Madison County
• McDowell County
• Nantahala Regional Library
• Polk County Library
• Transylvania County

Museums/Heritage Sites

• The Appalachian Artisan Society
• Asheville Art Museum
• Black Mountain College Museum & Arts Center
• Carl Sandburg Home
• Cradle of Forestry
• Folk Art Center
• Museum of the Cherokee
• The Orchard at Altapass
• Smith-McDowell House
• Swannanoa Valley Museum
• Thomas Wolfe Memorial
• Vance Birthplace
• YMI Cultural Center

Universities & Colleges

• Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College
• Brevard College
• Mars Hill College
• Montreat College
• South College
• Isothermal Community College
• University of North Carolina at Asheville
• Warren Wilson College
• Western Carolina University

Neighborhoods

• Burton Street
• Kenilworth
• West End-Clingman Ave.
• Riceville

Organizations

• Children First
• Literacy Council of Buncombe County
• N.C. State Historic Preservation
• Old Buncombe County Genealogical Society
• Preservation North Carolina
• WNC Alliance
• YWCA