Join Wiley Cash as he discusses the writerly craft behind some of the most iconic scenes in Thomas Wolfe’s debut novel “Look Homeward, Angel.”
A wide variety of functional and decorative pottery, prints, and other artwork created by UNC Asheville students will be on sale in the S. Tucker Cooke Gallery of Owen Hall .
A wide variety of functional and decorative pottery, prints, and other artwork created by UNC Asheville students will be on sale in the S. Tucker Cooke Gallery of Owen Hall […]
Margaret Renkl is the author of “Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss” (2019) and “Graceland, at Last: Notes on Hope and Heartache From the American South” (2021) and “The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year” (2023), which won the 2024 Southern Book Prize.
Celebrate the opening reception of the J. Todd Bailey Thomas Wolfe Collection with UNC Asheville! The J. Todd Bailey Thomas Wolfe Collection contains over 662 monographs and five linear feet of manuscript and related ephemera materials.
In this generative, one-day intensive, we’ll move step by step through building the draft of a short essay—from idea generation through early drafting, with prompts along the way to help with structure, image, point of view, theme, and form.
Ken Wagener, Butler Chaired Professor Emeritus at the University of Florida, will deliver UNC Asheville’s 27th S. Dexter Squibb Distinguished Lecture. A renowned polymer chemist, Wagener will explore the complex role of plastics in modern life—from their everyday benefits to their environmental challenges—inviting audience discussion on their future in society.
“Southern Indigenous Waters” is the first event in the “Rising Waters: Writing Place and Environment” Thomas Howerton lecture series, a series that puts humanities scholars in conversation with natural sciences scholars about issues affecting us all. On October 30, 2025, Duke hydrologist Ryan Emanuel and East Carolina University literary scholar Kirstin Squint will discuss the centrality of place and water for southern Indigenous people.