Subject line:  McIlvoy, Hale, and Prudowsky read May 2 at Posana Kevin Mcllvoy, Christine Hale, and Mark Prudowsky will read fiction, memoir, and poetry, respectively, at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, May 2, 2011, in the back room at Posana's Café, 1 Biltmore Avenue, Asheville.  The reading is free and open to the public.  Kevin McIlvoy offers online instruction and book editing through his website, mcthebookmechanic.com. He teaches in Asheville, North Carolina, his home, where he is an adjunct faculty…See More

Three local authors, all with recently published work: Charles Dodd White, Cynn Chadwick and Vicki Lane.Cynn Chadwick, whose fifth book, As The Table Turns has been released this spring with Napping Porch Press, teaches creative writing at UNC-Asheville. She notes on her blog that: "writing fiction is mostly a hindsight way to rectifying wrongs, serving justice or vengeance, fulfilling dreams, explaining mysteries, revealing ......histories, and happily ever-aftering an otherwise sad or tragic…See More

We are opening our 5th season of the reading series with an book release event for Charles Dodd White on Wednesday, November 17th at the Posana Cafe, 1 Biltmore Ave, Asheville NC. The reading will begin at 8:00 pm.Charles Dodd White's forthcoming book: Lambs of Men, is published by Casperian Books and concerns a Marine Corps veteran returning to his Appalachian home shortly after the First World War. While dealing with the legacy of a troubled family history, he is drawn into a manhunt for a…See More

Alex Kudera, Clemson University professor, has written a blistering satire with his first novel. Kudera's protagonist in Fight For Your Long Day, Cyrus Duffleman, lives the life that is familiar to so many Americans who are over-educated, over-worked and under paid. Come hear how (if?) "Duffy" makes it through his day!See More

Charles Dodd White will read excerpt from his novel LAMBS OF MENReturning from the horrors of the First World War to recruit volunteers in his remote Appalachian home, Marine Sergeant Hiram Tobit finds the country changed. His mother has committed suicide, dredging up old resentments between Hiram and his father, Sloane. When a gruesome act of violence stuns the insular mountain community, father and son must journey together to see justice carried out while coming to terms with a deeply…See More

I will be reading from my story "Controlled Burn", which appears in this year's Appalachian themed issue.

I will be reading from my story "Controlled Burn", which appears in this year's Appalachian themed issue.