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2019 Art Contest Winner Announced

Posted on by CM Lit Fest
The 14th Annual Carolina Mountains Literary Festival is pleased to announce that a watercolor by Claire Simpson Jones has been chosen to represent the Festival theme of On The Move- stories of migration, immigration and travel. The Festival will be September 5-7, 2019 in Burnsville, NC. Claire Simpson Jones has also supported the Festival as she and her visual arts classes at N. Buncombe High ...
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Gail Godwin’s Keynote Speech written for the 2018 Carolina Mountains Literary Festival theme – Surface and Rise

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Gail Godwin delivering the keynote address at the 2018 Carolina Mountains LitFest
The Desperate Place [De-esperare; de=reverse the action of—hope] I can’t see a way out of this. Things will not necessarily get better. This is my life, but I may not get to do what I want in it. This is the language that speaks to you in the desperate place. A place from which you lack the means or power to escape. A place in which you realize that someone you love does not, and ...
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Did the Carolina Mountains Literary Festival leave you wanting more?

Posted on by Maureen
Join Press 53 authors on Saturday, October 21 for an afternoon of literature at the Little Switzerland Books & Beans.  Press 53 of Winston-Salem will be presenting three authors who will talk about and read from their books.  They will also be available for book signings - books will be available for purchase at Books & Beans. Kevin Morgan Watson, Publisher of Press 53, will wrap up the af...
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