NORTH CAROLINA LITERARY FESTIVAL
Schedule of events and subject to change without notice.
GMH= George Moses Horton Conference
Signings to be indicated in final printed program.
All events free unless indicated.
Friday, April 3

1:30-2:00	George Moses Horton Conference Welcoming Remarks (GMH)
William L. Andrews and Marjorie Hudson—Wilson Library Assembly Room

2:00-2:25	“The Significance of George Moses Horton” (GMH) 
		William Carroll— Wilson Library Assembly Room

2:30-3:15	Keynote Address: “Production, Reception, Scholarship: The Study of 
		African-American Poetry in the 21st Century”  (GMH)
		Jerry W. Ward— Wilson Library Assembly Room

3:00		Exhibitor set-up on Polk Place

3:30-5:00	Panel on the Poetry of Margaret Walker (GMH)
		SallyAnn Ferguson, Maryemma Graham, Joyce Pettis and  
Joanne V. Gabbin— Wilson Library Assembly Room

5:00                 Readers’ Reception Welcome and Reading
		Clyde Edgerton— Morehead Planetarium Banquet Hall
		$15.00 fee per person.

8:00 pm	Margaret Walker—Hanes Art Center Auditorium, Room 121 (GMH)

Saturday, April 4

8:30-10:00 	George Moses Horton Conference Panel on the Poetry of Yusef  
 Komunyakaa (GMH)
Angela Salas, Keith D. Leonard and Trudier Harris— Wilson Library 
		Assembly Room

9:00		Michael Chitwood and THE INDEPENDENT poetry contest winners—
			Greenlaw 304
		Wilma Dykeman and Carrie Allen McCray—Saunders 212
		UNC-CH Creative Writing Students—Greenlaw 302
		Andrew Scott and Susan R. Masters—Hanes 209
		Neil Caudle, Lou Lipsitz and James Seay—Murphey 108
“Wisteria or The New Old South Again” by John Justice and Joe      Newberry—Gerrard Hall
		Sonja Hanes Stone Black Cultural Center Panel; Dr. Selwyn Carrington, 
			Dr. William A. Darity, Jr. and Dr. Gerald Horne—Murphey 112

10:00		Daphne Athas and Nancy Peacock—Greenlaw 101
		Gloria Houston—Hanes 209
		Yusef Komunyakaa—Hamilton 100 (GMH)
		Jack Butler—Saunders 212
		Max Steele—Wilson Library Assembly  Room
		Betty Smith—Murphey 111
		NC Central University Creative Writing Students—Greenlaw 302
		Susan Steinfirst Lecture: Mary Pope Osborne—Manning 209
		
11:00		John Grisham—South Building.
		(Rain location—Memorial Hall)

12:00		45 North Carolina Authors for Lunch—Alumni Center
		$25.00 fee per person.

1:00		UNC-Asheville Creative Writing Students—Greenlaw 302
		Ellen Douglas—Hanes 210
		Rita Dove—Memorial  Hall (GMH)
		Carrie Brown, Sarah Dessen and Susan Kelly—Murphey 112
		Angelettes: Susan Ketchin, Lois Douglass and Brenda Linton—Wilson 
			Library Assembly Room
		Lawrence Naumoff—Saunders 112
		Palmyra LoMonaco and Donna Jakob—Hanes 209
		Edward Ball and John  Bentley Mays—Greenlaw 101
		
2:00		Louis D. Rubin, Jr.—Hamilton 100
		Jaqueline Ogburn—Hanes 209
		Carolina African American Writers Collective Members: L.Teresa Church,
			Lenard D. Moore and Oktavi—Murphey 108
		Allan Gurganus—Memorial Hall
		MariJo Moore and Lawrence Dunmore—Saunders 112
		St. Andrew’s Presbyterian College Creative Writing Students
—Greenlaw 302
		UNC-CH Dramatic Art Performance—Playmakers Theater

2:30		George Moses Horton Conference Panel on the Poetry of Rita Dove 
		(GMH)
Joanne V. Gabbin, Malin Walther, Elizabeth Beaulieu and
 William Richardson Nash— Wilson Library Assembly Room

3:00		Rubin Writers Panel: Jane Gentry Vance, Jill McCorkle, Anne G. Jones, 
Lucinda Mackethan, Anne Bradford Warner and Lee Smith.
—Hamilton 100
		Mystery Writers Panel: Joan Hess, Margaret Maron and John A. Miller. 
			Molly Weston, Moderator—Saunders 212
		Thomas Meyer, Janet Lembke and Jonathan Williams—Hanes 210
		Reynolds Price—Memorial Hall
		Anne Vilen—Bingham 103
		William McCranor Henderson—Gerrard Hall
		Patsy Baker O’Leary—Hanes 209

4:00		Rubin Writers: Annie Dillard, Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey,
Katie Letcher Lyle, Margaret Gibson, Sylvia Wilkinson and   Elizabeth Seydel Morgan—Hamilton 100
		James Applewhite—Manning 209
		Elizabeth Spencer—Memorial Hall
		Sam Fulwood III—Saunders 112
		Rick Boyer—Bingham 103
“Good Ol’ Girls” by Paul Ferguson. Music by Matraca Berg and Marshall   Chapman—Swain Performance Venue, Studio 7
		Ann Simpson signing—Student Recreation Center

4:15-5:00	George Moses Horton Conference Keynote Address: “Integral 
		Music”  (GMH)
Aldon Nelson— Wilson Library Assembly Room

Sunday, April 5

12:00		Doris Betts—Hamilton 100
		Carolina African American Writers Collective Members: Victor Blue,
			Janice Hodges, Lana Williams and Darrell Stover—Murphey 108
		ECU Creative Writing Students—Greenlaw 302
		Panel: Deep Within and Far Away. Lillian Furst, Jun Wang, Daphne Athas 
			and David Freeman. James Peacock, Moderator.—Murphey112
		Mary Pope Osborne—Hanes 209
		MFA at UNC-Greensboro Students—Greenlaw 304

1:00		Panel on the South: Tony Horwitz, Hal Crowther, John Bentley Mays, 
Peter Applebome and	John Egerton. John Shelton Reed, Moderator.—Hamilton 100
		Duke University Creative Writing Students—Greenlaw 302
		Robert Morgan and Michael McFee—Greenlaw 101
		Alice Adams—Saunders 112
		Carol F. Fantelli and Judith Ernst—Hanes 108
		Tara Powell and Brooke Calton—Murphey 112
Readers from the North Carolina Reading Association.—Hanes 209
		Self  Knowledge Symposium essay contest winners—Hanes 210

2:00		UNC-Wilmington Creative Writing Students—Greenlaw 302
		Derek Walcott: Address—Hamilton 100
		Marianne Gingher and Marly Youmans—Greenlaw 101
		Laurence G. Avery—Hanes 210
		Paul Jones—Manning 209
Janice Radway—Bingham 103
		William H. Hooks—Hanes 209

3:00		Ariel Dorfman—Hamilton 100
		Randall Kenan and Tim McLaurin—Murphey 111
		Lorraine Johnson-Coleman—Bingham 103
		Mystery Writers Panel: William Hoffman and Steven Womack.
			Molly Weston, Moderator—Saunders 212
		Alan Shapiro—Greenlaw 101
		UNC-Charlotte Creative Writing Students—Greenlaw 302
		Clay Carmichael and Susie Wilde—Hanes 209
		
4:00		Julie Tetel—Greenlaw 101
		Cherry L. F. Johnson and Ruth Moose—Hanes 209
		George Elliott Clarke and Jeffery Beam—Hanes 210
		Elizabeth Cox and Melissa Malouf—Murphey 108
“Good Ol’ Girls” by Paul Ferguson. Music by Matraca Berg and Marshall   Chapman—Swain Performance Venue, Studio 7
Elon College Creative Writing Students—Greenlaw 302
Norton Anthology of Southern American Literature: William L. Andrews 
			and Trudier Harris—Wilson Library Assembly Room