North Carolina is home to a strong writing community. The state’s writing world has flourished in part because of an equally-strong literary ecosystem of publishers, independent bookstores, and readers. The inaugural celebrates this literary ecosystem in downtown Durham this weekend with workshops, author dinners, and more.
Host Frank Stasio is joined by three participating writers to talk about their place in the literary scene: Katharine Dubois, whose pen name is , talks about straddling the worlds of fictional romance and academia; is a speculative fiction author working on and writing for an online fictional serial to be released in June; and is a poet and performance artist releasing a new project called “Last Temptation Before Sunrise” this weekend.