Sunday, September 20 – 3pm
Cathy Smith Bowers & Christine Hale
Cathy Smith Bowers’ poems have appeared widely in publications such as The Atlantic Monthly, The Georgia Review, Poetry, The Southern Review, and The Kenyon Review. She is a winner of The General Electric Award for Younger Writers, recipient of a South Carolina Poetry Fellowship, and winner of The South Carolina Arts Commission Fiction Project. She served for many years as poet-in-residence at Queens University of Charlotte where she received the 2002 JB Fuqua Distinguished Educator Award. She now teaches in the Queens University low-residency MFA program and at Wofford College.
Christine Hale is the author of the new novel, Basil’s Dream (Livingston Press, 2009). Hale’s short fiction and creative nonfiction have appeared in many journals, including Arts & Letters, Apalachee Review, Rivendell, Natural Bridge, and The Sun. A former Beebe Fellow at Warren Wilson College, she’s taught fiction there and in the Great Smokies Writing Program. At present she is faculty member at the Murray State University Low-Residency MFA Program in Murray, Kentucky. A fellow of the MacDowell, Ucross, Hedgebrook, and Hambidge colonies and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Hale is writing a new novel, and a memoir.
Sunday, October 18 – 3pm
A Reading by Members of Laura Hope-Gill’s Great Smokies Poetry Class
Sunday, November 15 – 3pm
Cheryl Dietrich & Catherine Reid
Cheryl Dietrich retired from the Air Force in 2000 and began writing memoir and personal essays about her experiences as a woman in the military. Some of these have appeared in literary journals, The Gettysburg Review and Shenandoah, as well as anthologies, including Birthed in Scorched Hearts: Women Respond to War. She's also published short stories and commentary and is currently working on a full-length memoir. A long-time student of the Great Smokies Writing Program and ClarityWorks, she's co-taught Writing in Community classes at the College for Seniors at UNC Asheville. She's a founder and board member of the Candy Maier Scholarship Fund for Women Writers.
Catherine Reid is an award-winning essayist and author of Coyote: Seeking the Hunter in Our Midst (Houghton Mifflin), one of Bookloft’s “top 20 bestsellers for 2006.” Other work has appeared in such journals as Massachusetts Review, Green Mountains Review, Bellevue Literary Review, and Isotope: A Journal of Literary Nature and Science Writing, where she was the featured writer for their inaugural issue. She teaches at Warren Wilson College, where she specializes in creative nonfiction.
