HCTC Annual
Evening with Poets
thursday
April 26
2012
6:30 p.m.
HCTC
Stephens Library
hazard, Ky
Admission: FREE
Makalani Bandele has been a member of the Affrilachian Poets since 2008. His poetry has been anthologized in My Brother’s Keeper and The Storytellers, and has been picked for upcoming issues of the African-American Review and Mythium Literary Magazine.
He is a winner of the Ernest Sandeen Prize for Poetry. He has self-published a chapbook called The Cadence of Echoes; a forthcoming book with Willow Books will be out Fall 2011 tentatively entitled The Old, the New, the Borrowed, and the Blues. Bandele will lead three sessions at the Spring Writers Conference.
Spring Writers Conference
Friday, April 27, 2012 • 10 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
HCTC First Federal Center, Hazard, KY
Admission: Free
Amy Greene will lead three fiction workshops at the Spring Writers Conference. She was born and raised in the foothills of East Tennessee’s Smoky Mountains. Her debut novel Bloodroot was a New York Times national bestseller and won the 2010 Weatherford Award for Appalachian literature. Her second novel, Long Man, is forthcoming also from Knopf.
Gurney Norman will offer three short fiction workshops at 2012 Spring Writers Conference. Norman is the author of Kinfolks: the Wilgus Stories and the novel Divine Right’s Trip; and he is also a contributing editor of Back Talk from Appalachia: Confronting Stereotypes and An American Vein: Critical Readings in Appalachian Literature.
