Regional Authors John Lane and George Singleton to Read at UNCA Dec. 3

UNCA’s Writers at Home reading series continues at 3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 3, at UNCA’s Laurel Forum, Karpen Hall with a readings by John Lane and George Singleton. Writers at Home is part of the Great Smokies Writing Program, a consortium of the Western North Carolina writers’ community and UNC Asheville’s Creative Writing Program. The program is free and open to the public.

A poet, essayist and editor, Lane teaches at Wofford College in Spartanburg, S.C. He has had numerous poetry collections published, including "Against Information & Other Poems" and a book of essays entitled "Weed Time." Last year, with Gerald Thurmond, Lane co-edited "The Woods Stretched for Miles: New Nature Writings from the South." He has collaborated with musician Mark O’Connor by providing improvisational poems as liner notes for his Sony Classical release "Midnight on the Water." His most recent collection of poems, "The Dead Father Poems," brings together a series of poems with prints by artist Douglas Whittle.

Singleton’s first collection of short stories, "These People Are Us," will be published by Black Belt Press in April 2001. His stories have been anthologized in "New Stories from the South," "Writers Harvest 2" and "New Southern Harmonies." His fiction has appeared in a wide variety of magazines. Singleton was educated at Furman University and UNC Greensboro. He teaches fiction writing at the South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities in Greenville, S.C.

For more information, call UNCA’s Literature and Language Department at 828/251-6411.

Media Contacts:

• Tommy Hays, Great Smokies Writing Program Director, 828/254-1389
• Jill Yarnall, UNCA Public Information Assistant, 828/251-6526