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Fred Chappell, former North Carolina Poet Laureate and longtime professor at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, died on Jan. 4 at age 87.

Asserting that his novels and short stories were equally as great as his poetry could get you in trouble with Chappell’s adoring poetry fans. They will think of him always

Fred Chappell, former North Carolina Poet Laureate and longtime professor at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, died on Jan. 4 at age 87.

(1) 1632 AT FANTASCI. The first 1632Con from 1632 & Beyond will be at FantaSci in Raleigh-Durham, NC from April 19-21. Kevin Ikenberry, author of the Assiti Shards book The Crossing, is one of the con’s Special Guests. Bjorn Hasseler, Bethanne Kim, and Chuck Thompson will all be there, as will other authors from the series.

A Western Carolina University professor has been named to the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame.Ron Rash,the Parris Distinguished Professor in Appalachian

Fred Chappell, a poet, novelist and critic whose Faulknerian capacity to express universal themes of love, loss and memory through his evocations of North…

Editor’s Note: A renowned Western North Carolina writer, Charles Frazier burst onto the worldwide literary scene with his seminal 1997 novel “Cold Mou...

Fred Chappell, widely known as the “bard of Canton” and as one of the most renowned literary figures across North Carolina and beyond, died on Jan. 4, 2024, at the

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