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The Mountain Heritage Literary
Festival
June 13-15, 2008
Tentative MHLF Schedule
(subject to change)
Friday, June 13
12 noon-2 p.m.-Registration -Abraham Lincoln
Library and Museum
Familiar faces Liz Lamont and Mary Allen welcome you to
the festival. Stop in here for your packets and
residence hall keys. Don't forget to sign up for
the participant readings. Time slots are limited.
2-2:05 p.m.-Official Welcome-Arnold
Auditorium, Abraham Lincoln Library and Museum
Sherilyn Emberton, LMU Vice President for Academic
Affairs, welcomes you to our beautiful and historic
campus.
2:05-2:45 p.m.-Opening Remarks-Arnold Auditorium,
Abraham Lincoln Library and Museum
Festival Director Silas House opens the festival with a
look at what it means to be someone who goes through the
day with their eyes-and arms-open as a writer.
3-3:45 p.m.-Writing Prompts-Carnegie-Vincent Library, 2nd Floor
-Fiction with Mark Powell - Brooks Reading Room
-Poetry with Maurice Manning - Murray Alumni Lounge
-Nonfiction with George Ella Lyon - Medical Library
classroom
-Songwriting with Kate Larken - DCOM Study Room
Refreshments in the 2nd floor lobby
4-5 p.m.-Concurrent Sessions
- Does it balance? Does it fly? - Brooks Reading
Room
Brooke Calton looks at techniques for revising a novel.
For a writer in the midst of revising a novel the
process can be endless, frustrating, illuminating, and
addictive. The reader should not see the hours
that go into the novel; they should only be captivated
by the story in motion. In this seminar we will
discuss the challenges that are raised when revising a
novel. Calton will present techniques that are
meant to offer ways to face these challenges outside of
the book, before you actually change anything within the
text. Suggested for fiction writers. -
"Tale-telling and Sanging"-Festival Tent (rain plan:
Medical Library classroom)
Anne Shelby gathers everyone in for an old-timey tale-telling, featuring her strong and brave Molly Whuppie character.
Someone might even break into a song. Suggested for young adult, poetry, songwriters.
5:10-6:30 p.m.-Play-Arnold Auditorium, Abraham
Lincoln Library and Museum-
On Agate Hill, adapted and performed by Barbara
Bates Smith
Join the creator of Ivy Rowe in her latest
one-woman show, a tour-de-force based on the celebrated
latest novel from Lee Smith that follows the wild and
poetic life of Molly Petree, a "spitfire" whom we first
meet on a ghostly plantation during the Reconstruction
and travel with from a strict boarding school to the
rugged mountains of Western North Carolina. Bates
Smith is joined by Jeff Sebens on hammered dulcimer in
music that builds the tension, causes you to tap your
foot, and moves you, too.
6:45-7:45 p.m.-Supper-University Dining Hall
8-9 p.m.-Concert-Arnold Auditorium, Abraham
Lincoln Library and Museum
Sheila Kay Adams and Jim Taylor bring us their raw and
beautiful ancient tones with haunting vocals and
claw hammer banjoes. Knowing Sheila Kay, she's
liable to throw in a great story or two.
9-9:30 p.m.-Reception/Signing-Front Lobby,
Abraham Lincoln Library and Museum
Get your books or CDs signed by Sheila Kay and Jim while
munching on some late-night Appalachian snacks.
Saturday, June 14
7:30-9 a.m.-Early Morning Hike-Meeting in Abraham
Lincoln Library and Museum parking lot
Meet your guide, Mary Allen, at the parking lot and she
will organize carpools and lead everyone on a short
two-mile drive to the Daniel Boone trailhead where
you'll start a peaceful, easy hike to the saddle of the
Cumberland Gap on the actual Wilderness Road, cut by
Daniel Boone in the late 1700s. This quiet and
inspirational walk is perfect for waking up your writing
mind and discovering your Appalachian heritage.
Our volunteers will be there with coffee, juice, and
muffins to fix you up before you hit the trail (Rain or
shine).
8:15-9:15-Breakfast-University Dining Hall
A full Southern breakfast. Come hungry.
10 a.m.-12 noon-Concurrent Sessions-Master
Classes-Library, Carnegie-Vincent Library, 2nd Floor
-Fiction with Mark Powell - Brooks Reading Room
-Poetry with Maurice Manning - Murray Alumni Lounge
-Nonfiction with George Ella Lyon - Medical Library
classroom
-Songwriting with Kate Larken - DCOM Study Room
12:15-1:15 p.m.-Awards Dinner-University Dining Hall
Join us for a delicious lunch topped off by our literary
contest award announcements. Awards will be given
for the short story, poetry, essay, and children's
writing contests that are sponsored every year by the
Mountain Heritage Literary Festival.
1:15-1:45 p.m.-The James Still Lecture-University Dining
Hall
Bill Weinberg, a long-time friend of James Still (and
one of his literary executors) offers his special
insight into the LMU graduate many know as "the Dean of
Appalachian Literature."
2-2:50 p.m.-Concurrent Sessions, choose one
- Julia Watts and Larry Thacker-Brooks Reading
Room
Two
of Appalachia's most interesting authors bring you
their insights and short readings. Watts is
the Lambda Award-winning author of Finding H.F.
and seven other novels. A native of
Southeastern Kentucky, she now lives in Knoxville.
Larry Thacker is the author of Mountain
Mysteries and is the director of student
success and retention at LMU. He also writes a
column for Premier Overlook and The
Middlesborough Daily News. - Liz Lamont and
Richard Saunders-Elizabeth D. Chinnock Chapel
Come explore the rich literary tradition of LMU that includes not only James Still and Jesse Stuart, but also the lesser known-but equally important-Don West and teacher and author Henry Harrison Kroll who changed countless lives during his tenure at LMU. Recommended for nonfiction, scholarly, poetry. -
"Say What?"-Dialogue Session with Darnell Arnoult-location
TBA
What is dialogue? What are its purposes in fiction? In this session, beloved teacher and writer Darnell Arnoult will look at ways to write stronger, more believable dialogue, use beats to weave dialogue into scene structure, discuss ways to edit dialogue down to its essential best, and use indirection to make dialogue more interesting.
3-4:p.m.-Publishing Panel-Arnold Auditorium,
Abraham Lincoln Library and Museum
Get the inside scoop on the publishing world with our
esteemed panel of editors and publishers. Each
panelist will offer a brief statement and then the
session will be turned over to your questions, so come
prepared to ask anything you ever wanted to know about
the publishing world. Guests include Laura Sutton,
acquisitions editor at the University Press of Kentucky,
Kate Larken, president of Motes Books, Sandra Ballard,
editor of Appalachian Journal, and George
Brosi, editor of Appalachian Heritage.
Lemonade and cookies will be available.
4:15-5:15 p.m.-Front Porch Talk-Arnold
Auditorium, Abraham Lincoln Library and Museum
Readings by staff members Maurice Manning, Mark Powell,
George Ella Lyon and Silas House, with
music by Kate Larken followed by a Q&A session where
you can ask the writers anything you'd like to know
about the writing life.
5:15-6:30 p.m.-Reflective Time
Use this time to get some writing done, take a walk
around our beautiful campus, or just get ready for the
big festivities tonight.
6:30-7:20 p.m.-Awards Banquet-University
Dining Hall
We'll settle down to a delicious home-style supper and
then present the Lee Smith Award for properly
representing the region and the Jean Ritchie Fellowship,
the largest monetary prize in Appalachian literature.
7:20-7:45 p.m.-Tribute Concert-University
Dining Hall
The Johnson Sisters are one of the best a capella sister
acts in Appalachia, or anywhere else for that matter.
They'll offer us several songs that show up in the work
of Lee Smith, and maybe even a couple to pay tribute to
the legendary Jean Ritchie.
7:45-8:05-Keynote Address by Lee Smith
The author of such classics as Fair and Tender Ladies,
Oral History, The Devil's Dream, and Saving Grace brings
her keen insights about the current state of Appalachian
literature.
8:10-9 p.m.-Writer's Market/Booksigning-University
Dining Hall
Bring your books, or buy new ones from us. Lee
Smith and all staff members will be available for our
grand finale booksigning event. While you wait,
you can browse around George and Connie Brosi's
Appalachian Bookstore or check out the wares provided by
Jamie Johnson's basket or the Paint Creek Potters, who
create the Lee Smith Award every year.
Sunday, June 15
9-10 a.m.-Light Breakfast/Checkout-University Dining
Hall
We'll have a breakfast of fruits, pastries, juices and
coffee. Please return your room keys to Denton or
Silas at this time.
10-10:30 a.m.-Hymn Singing-
Anne Shelby leads us in a closing fellowship of
hymn-singing, silent prayer, and a message of hope to
set us on our travels. Anne will be helped in the
hymn-singing by Jason Howard and Jessie Lynne Keltner.
We'll say our good-byes here, or you can stick around
for the optional participant readings.
10:45-12 noon-Participant Readings-Elizabeth
D. Chinnock Chapel
Those who signed up on the fist day will be able to read
short pieces of their work at this optional event.
Before leaving the Cumberland Gap area, we suggest you
explore the national park, where you can hike (easy
trails close by or the lengthy and beautiful White Rocks
Trail is about 10 miles away at Rose Hill, VA), spelunk
at the Gap Cave or Sand Cave, go back in time at the
Hensley Settlement, visit the museum and artisan store
at the visitor's center, or view three states from the
Pinnacle Overlook. There is too much to do to pass
it up. For more information, visit
www.nps.gov/cuga.
Lincoln Memorial University
Cumberland Gap Parkway
P.O. Box 2005
Harrogate, TN 37752
Phone:
423.869.6432 or 800.325.0900, ext. 6432
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