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Literary festival at Emory & Henry

The annual Literary Festival at Emory & Henry honors the work of an author with strong ties to southern Appalachia. The first such event was held in 1982, celebrating the achievement of Sherwood Anderson during his years in nearby Smyth County, Virginia. Since then, each festival has honored a living writer and has brought that person to campus for a reading and a public interview. In addition, each festival has typically included the presentation of three papers about the featured author's work. The proceedings of these festivals, together with some writing by the featured author, are published in an annual issue of The Iron Mountain Review, one of this college's most substantial contributions to Appalachian literary studies. Now in its twenty-first year, the festival has honored such notable writers as James Still, Fred Chappell, Lee Smith, John Ehle, Jim Wayne Miller, Wilma Dykeman, Robert Morgan, Mary Lee Settle, Charles Wright, David Huddle, George Ella Lyon, Jeff Daniel Marion, Meredith Sue Willis, Gurney Norman, Jo Carson, Denise Giardina, George Scarbrough, Lisa Alther, and Kathryn Stripling Byer. Back issues of The Iron Mountain Review--except for the Anderson and Smith issues, which are no longer available--may be ordered from the editor (John Lang, Dept. of English) at a cost of $5 each.

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