OLLI Appalachian Term Program Series – Writer Silas House

As part of a theme term on Appalachia, the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UNC Asheville (OLLI) will be offering a series of evening programs, free and open to everyone at 7 p.m. in the Reuter Center, Manheimer Room.

• Friday, October 25, 7 p.m. Kentucky writer and activist Silas House will discuss his work, and the documentary film Hillbilly, in which he appears. Silas House is the nationally bestselling author of six novels, and his work frequently appears in The New York Times and Salon and has appeared in Time, Garden and Gun, and Oxford American. House serves on the fiction faculty at the Spalding MFA in Creative Writing and as the NEH Chair at Berea College. He is a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers, the recipient of three honorary doctorates, and is the winner of the Nautilus Award, an EB White Award, the Appalachian Book of the Year, the Jesse Stuart Award, the Lee Smith Award, and many other honors. His book Southernmost (June 2018) was long-listed for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction and appeared on several the Best of 2018 lists of The Advocate, Booklist, Paste, Southern Living, Garden and Gun, and others.  The book was also awarded the Weatherford Award as well as the Judy Gaines Young Award. In addition to being an accomplished writer, House is an activist. He has been involved in the fight against mountaintop removal mining since being invited on a tour with environmentalist, author and public intellectual Wendell Berry. He serves on the board of Appalachian Voices, the clearing house for grassroots organizations fighting mountaintop removal. He has recently focused also on bullying and fairness issues and particularly about the challenge of “small hearts in small towns.”

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