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WCU's Fifth Annual Spring
Literary Festival runs from April 6-10, 2008 and will
feature such writers as Lee Smith, Barbarba Bates Smith, Pat
Conroy, Russell Banks, Dagoberto Gilb, Thomas Lux, and others.
Together
We Read is Western North Carolina's region-wide reading
and discussion program. Every year, participants choose a
book that becomes the basis of a community phenomenon.
City
Lights Book is located in Sylva, North Carolina, a small
Main Street town nestled in the heart of the Blue Ridge mountains.
Our goal is to share the literature of the Appalachian region
with the world and the world of good books with our community.
The Friends
of the Jackson County Main Library Friends of Jackson
County Main Library is a voluntary not-for-profit organization
whose purpose is to support the Jackson County Main Library
and promote literacy and reading.
The WCU Honors
College is the first residential honors college established
in the University of North Carolina system. Over 1,200 undergraduates,
representing all majors at WCU, are members of the college.
The Jackson
County Arts Council promotes the general betterment of
the community by developing a multi-faceted arts program in
Jackson County. They coordinate the available arts programs;
schedule new events for wider dissemination of arts activities,
exhibitions and opportunities; make the arts available to
diverse populations; encourage the development of local talent;
and assist groups in crafts, visual arts, music, drama, dance,
literary arts, photography, archaeology and other related
areas.
The North
Carolina Poet Laureate, Kathryn Stripling Byer, serves
as an ambassador of North Carolina literature, past and present.
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