Friday, November 3, 2017

Read, Reflect, Write

Friends we are off to a great start since our last dispatch of October 1st!  We have already completed our lineup of authors & schedule for our Laughing Heart Literary Featival (see our festival page on our website) which will take place August 3-5, 2018. Additionally we just announced our first Prize winner, North Carolina writer Wiley Cash. He will be participating in the festival, as well as many wonderful folks including bestselling author Adriana Trigiani as our keynote conversation with Amy Clark, and music by Caroline Herring. 

Now to our Writers' Studio which we are so pleased to be able to share. This program offers an emerging and or aspiring writer-in-residence a fully funded fellowship for one week. The Studio is located at our base camp, a 17 acre forest farm in the foothills of the Smoky Mountains. Our aim is to provide writers the opportunity to hone their craft in a quiet setting down a long gravel road along creeks, ponds, and trees, finding their voice on Bloodroot Mountain on their trail to publication. 

 The studio is a coverted timber frame (former pottery studio) barn with a bedroom, kitchen, and living space downstairs, and we are currently in the process of developing a library and reading/writing space on the second floor loft. The 2018 summer writer-in-residence dates will be from May 15 - August 15. 

We feel this fully funded program is unique and we hope it will make a difference for new voices to be read and heard. If one is an aspiring songwriter, it lends itself to this space as well as it is buffeted by 17 acres of forest. so bring your guitar, banjo, or violin (fiddle in these parts)! 

We hope this program can help many who seek a solitary reading & writing experience. We have already had a wonderful response to this program and encourage you to apply ASAP (deadline is December 15). Please visit our Writers' Studio page on the website for specific details. 


OUR NOVEMBER BOOK RECOMMENDATION: 

The Last Ballad - Wiley Cash

From Bloodroot Mountain, 

Trent


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  1. Judith ToyNovember 26, 2017 at 6:18 AM

    Could I be called an emerging writer at age 74? If you go by the standards of the NY Times best-seller list, yes. I'm interested in applying for a residency and in participating in your Laughing Heart festival. Have been trying to make literary connections here since I moved here a year and a half ago, but am in the outback of Grainger County and finding it difficult. I really want to make a connection with you two and have you visit our amazing eco-community nearby. Am thrilled that you are working together as a couple. I did that with my late husband; we worked with gifted young writers.

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