This year you're invited to two exciting opportunities for conversation prior to the festival: a panel discussion among social workers, law enforcement, health care workers, and others about the opioid crisis in the region and a live recording of the Diversity Dialogues podcast at the East Asheville Library (in collaboration with Malaprop's Bookstore) with poet and psychiatrist Eric Tran and pyschologist Jay Manalo
6:00 pm - Dopesick in WNC: A Conversation about the Opioid Crisis
→204 Health and Human Sciences Bldg
3:00 pm - Poetry and Healing: A Live Recording of Diversity Dialogues with Eric Tran and Jay Manolo
During the festival, writers will read and discuss their work, answer audience questions, and sign books (books sold by City Lights Bookstore). All festival events will take place in the AK Hinds University Center
12:00 pm - Gilbert-Chappell Poets (UC Theater)
4:00 pm - Glenn Taylor and Idra Novey (UC Theater)
7:00 pm - Ashley M. Jones (UC Theater)
12:00 pm - Stephen J. West and A. Kendra Greene (UC Theater)
4:00 pm - Mark Powell and Charles Dodd White (UC Theater)
7:00 pm - Beth Macy (UC Theater)
12:00 pm - Winners of creative writing competitions (UC Theater)
4:00 pm - Eric Tran and Nickole Brown (UC Theater)
7:00 pm - SA Cosby (UC Theater)
12:00 pm - Lisa Lefler and Tom Belt (UC Illusions)
4:00 pm - Angela Velez (UC Illusions)
7:00 pm - Jason Mott (UC Illusions)