Ron Rash
"The Cove" Reading
Friday 05/25/20127:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Headquarters Library, Spartanburg | Map
Ron Rash will be reading from his new book, The Cove, at the Headquarters Library in Spartanburg.
Rash is the author of four prize-winning novels: One Foot in Eden, Saints at the River, The World Made Straight, and Serena; four collections of poems; and four collections of stories. A recipient of the O. Henry Prize, he holds the John Parris Chair in Appalachian Studies at Western Carolina University. A Boiling Springs native who was also raised in Chester, S.C., he teaches Appalachian literature and creative writing at WCU.
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Mary Alice Monroe
The Summer Girls
Wednesday 06/26/2013
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
The Piedmont Club, 361 East Main St. | Map
Among the writers who have visited our community for readings or workshops in the past two years are: Jonathan Tropper, Richard Russo, Wiley Cash, Thomas Kennedy, Tea Obreht, Davy Rothbart, Barry Lopez, Rick Bass, Tayari Jones, Ron Rash, Jill McCorkle, Neil Gaiman, Lee Smith, Robert Olmstead, Albert Goldbarth, and R.T, Smith, among many others. The creative writing faculties at Spartanburg's colleges include many writers who have published books, including poets Rick Mulkey, Deno Trakas and John Lane, fiction writers Elizabeth Cox, Susan Tekulve, Sam Howie, Brock Adams, and Thomas McConnell. The Atlantic magazine's venerable fiction editor C. Michael Curtis teaches at Wofford College and sits on our editorial committee. A low-residency MFA in creative writing is offered at Converse College.
