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Energizing Writers Since 1995
Members include writers of fiction and non-fiction -- mystery, romance, poetry, Civil War, Appalachian women,
memoir, erotica, Roman historical, young adult fiction and non-fiction, children's books, local history, real estate, as well
as Southern fiction.
The High Country Writers organization meets the second and fourth Thursdays of most months from 10 a.m. to noon at the
Watauga County Public Library, 140 Queen St., Boone, NC. Visitors are welcomed!
Sharyn McCrumb, NY Times bestselling novelist and Appalachain Advocate to Speak in May
The Awards Ceremony for the 2012 High Country Writers Book of the Year Awards will follow our May meeting, beginning
with a pot luck lunch at noon. The meeting will begin at 10 am at Grace Lutheran Church on King Street in Boone.
Our speaker for the High Country Writers program
in May will be Sharyn McCrumb, celebrated Southern writer, best known for her Appalachian "Ballad"
novels, including the New York Times best sellers The
Ballad of Frankie Silver and She Walks These Hills, and for St. Dale, winner of a Library of Virginia Award and featured
at the National Festival of the Book. Her most recent new release is The Ballad of
Tom Dooley, also a New York Times best seller, that examines the Wilkes County tragedy make famous in the song
by the Kingston Trio.
McCrumb’s novels, studied in universities throughout the world, have been translated into
eleven languages. She has lectured on her work at Oxford University, the University of Bonn-Germany, and at the Smithsonian
Institution; taught a writers workshop in Paris, and served as writer-in-residence at King College in Tennessee and at the
Chautauqua Institute in western New York. In 2008 the Library of Virginia named Sharyn McCrumb a Virginia Woman of History
for Achievement in Literature.
Ghost Riders, an account of the Civil War in the mountains of western North Carolina,
won the Wilma Dykeman Award for Literature given by the East Tennessee Historical Society and the Audie Award for Best Recorded
Book. A new edition of Ghost Riders was published in
2012 by J.F. Blair Press of Winston-Salem, and the book is now available in electronic formats for Nook and Kindle.
High Country Writers 2011 Book Awards Presented
High Country Writers will hold their annual book awards ceremony this year at Grace Lutheran Church Fellowship
Hall on E. King Street (directly across from Daniel Boone Inn) in Boone, NC on Thursday, May 10, from 12 - 2 p.m. Awards will be presented for books of excellence published in 2011 in the following categories: Ghost Stories,
Mystery, Young Adult Novel, Travel Mystery, Adventure, Memoir and Animal Writing. Recipients
(respectively) will be Bart Bare, for Wadmalaw, Maggie Bishop, for One Shot Too Many, Lissa Brown for Family Secrets: Three Generations, Wendy
Dingwall, for Hera’s Revenge, Judith Geary, for GETORIX: Games of the Underworld, Nora Percival for Adya and Olechka: A
Postal Romance in Old Russia and Nancy A. Kaiser, for Tales of an Animal Commuinicator:
Master Teachers. Presenters will be Diane Blanks, Bill Kaiser, Paula Finck,
Bart Bare, Neil Wilson, Evelyn Asher and Ree Strawser. A light lunch will be
served and the public is invited.
Click here for our current calendar.
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