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New York City, May 21, 2010 – Asheville author and writing teacher Peggy Tabor Millin has won a 2010 Next Generation Indie Book Award for her nonfiction book, Women, Writing, and Soul-Making: Creativity and the Sacred Feminine. more...
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RALEIGH (AP) -- A Tryon poet whose poems read like miniature short stories has been named North Carolina's new poet laureate...Cathy Smith Bowers was installed Feb. 10. more...
Reader Offering
The belly goddess played a subtle but starring role in Poetry At Six — one of the top three stories selected from 3,600 entries in National Public Radio’s recent Three-Minute Fiction contest.
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Virginia McKinley
Dear SheVille,
Since I know you are a supporter of Malaprop's and of independent bookstores, I want to let you know about at least one important additional way that you might choose to direct your readers to independent bookstores and help readers purchase books from independents on-line. more...
Quotable - Alice Walker
Alice Walker
"Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence."
Quotable - Alice Walker
Alice Walker
"And so our mothers and grandmothers have, more often than not anonymously, handed on the creative spark, the seed of the flower they themselves never hoped to see -- or like a sealed letter they could not plainly read."
J. Lee Lehman
Yes, I admit it. My partner and I took turns reading Harry Potter and the
Deathly Hallows aloud to each other the weekend of its release. It seemed
both fairer, not to mention more fun, to savor that last piece of the story
together. more...
Sheville Staff
Really great resources in the Smoky Mountain area for writers more...
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The creators and publishers of www.Sheville.org, a regional Internet magazine for WNC, are eager to provide a venue for publication of excellent student writing and work, as well as faculty writing and work. Our intention is to enhance the visibility of the student writers and artists whose work might not otherwise be published and to help expand the visibility of our regional colleges and universities.
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SG Séguret
If the Beauce
is the breast of France,
spilling out wheat
to feed the nation, more...
Quotable - Willa Cather
Willa Cather
Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand--a business as safe and commendable as making breakfast foods--or it should be an art, which is always a search for something for which there is no market demand, something new and untried, where the values are intrinsic, and have nothing to do with standardized values."
Local Author Peggy Millin Wins International Award
A Letter From Virginia McKinley, Community Outreach Malaprop's Bookstore/Cafe
and From the American Booksellers’ Association 2009
Plant the Arts: Grow North Carolina
Map of France