Southern Writers Symposium Schedule

This schedule is tentative. Be sure to pick up a final program at the registration table.

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Friday, Feb. 27

9:30 Registration
10:00 Sessions 1a-1c

• Carolina Women Writers
• Lee Smith's Appalachian South
• Race (and Religion) in NC (and VA)

12:00 Lunch/Welcome

• Speaker: Margaret Bauer

2:00: Sessions 2a-2c

• NC Children's Writers
• Contemporary Carolina Women
• Appalachia—and Beyond

3:30: Speaker: Dasan Ahanu
4:30: Coffee Break
5:00: Sessions 3a-3c

• Robert Morgan
• NC Legends in Fact and Fiction
• Chesnutt: Race, Class, and Genre

6:00: Dinner

• Speaker: TBA

7:30: Keynote Speaker: Jill McCorkle

Saturday, Feb. 28

8:30 Registration
8:30 Continental Breakfast
9:00: Sessions 4a-4d

• Cherokee: East and West
• Canonical Writers, Border States
• GA (and FL) Writers: Gender, Race, Class
• North Carolina on Stage

10:30: Sessions 5a-5c

• Contemporary Perspectives on Chesnutt
• Sandhills and Coastal Plain
• Gentleman Journalists of North Carolina

12:00: Lunch

• Speaker: Lucinda MacKethan

1:30: Panel Discussion and Readings by Panelists

• Moderator: Lucinda MacKethan
• Panelists: Pamela Duncan, David Payne, and Brenda Jernigan

3:30 Coffee Break
4:00: Reading by Longleaf Press Chapbook Poets

• Amy Knox Brown
• Steve Lautermilch
  

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