The Carolina Mountains Literary Festival has been fortunate over its thirteen years of bringing literary arts to Western North Carolina, to have many illustrious participants and champions. Among the Festival’s most ardent supporters is Kevin Morgan Watson, founder of Press 53, an independent publishing house located in Winston Salem. Press 53 authors have had a presence at the Festival every year since 2006. They have included the likes of John Ehle, who captured the spirit of the people and ...

Whatever your reading preferences, there will be something for you at the Carolina Mountains Literary Festival on September 6-8, 2018 in Burnsville, NC. Authors will give free readings and discussions in fiction, memoir, poetry, non-fiction and young adult and children’s literature. National Poetry Slam Finalist and spoken word Hip Hop artist, Kane Smego will start the Festival on Thursday evening with a free performance on Thursday night. Readers of fiction and writers in all genres wi...

If you enjoy reading and learning about history, come to the Carolina Mountains Literary Festival on September 6-8, 2018 in Burnsville, NC. You will hear authors of fiction, non-fiction, poetry and memoir read and discuss events in US history. Novelist Daren Wang tells a Civil War story about a runaway slave. The setting is based on a real town, the only secessionist town north of the Mason-Dixon Line. Abigail DeWitt also writes a based in truth novel set in WW II which is a story of loss and...

Novelist Gail Godwin will be the Saturday night Keynote Speaker at the Carolina Mountains Literary Festival which takes place in Burnsville, NC on September 6-8,2018, While author readings all day on Friday and Saturday are free, registration and a fee of $20 is required for the Saturday Keynote. Seats are filling, so preregister before August 31.  cmlitfest.org Godwin is the author of 14 novels, 2 short story collections, 3 works of non-fiction and 10 libretti. This best selling author is...