April 20: 19th U.S. Poet Laureate and Pulitzer Prize Winner Natasha Trethewey
Apr 11, 2023
Reading and Book Signing with Natasha Trethewey
Thursday, April 20, 2023, from 6-7:30 p.m.
Blue Ridge Ballroom (Room 201AB), Plemmons Student Union
Appalachian Journal marks 50 years of spotlighting Appalachia
Mar 9, 2023
BOONE, N.C. — Appalachian State University’s Appalachian Journal: A Regional Studies Review marks its 50th anniversary this academic year, with the journal’s semicentennial volume set to publish later this spring.
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March 1-5: A Fable for Now
Feb 23, 2023
A Fable for Now is a satirical and allegorical fable about the present and future of the earth.
Arts & Cultural, Events
6 award-winning authors to visit App State for spring 2023 Hughlene Bostian Frank Visiting Writers Series
Feb 22, 2023
BOONE, N.C. — Six acclaimed authors will visit Appalachian State University’s Boone campus this spring, as part of the university’s 2022–23 Hughlene Bostian Frank Visiting Writers Series.
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Worley and Birkhofer receive North Carolina Literary Review honor
Feb 21, 2023
The 2023 Ehle Prize is awarded to Melissa D. Birkhofer and Paul M. Worley for their essay, “She Said That Saint Augustine Is Worth Nothing Compared to Her Homeland: Teresa Martín and the Méndez Cancio Account of La Tama (1600).”
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The Spring 2023 Hughlene Bostian Frank Visiting Writers Series
Feb 13, 2023
BOONE, N.C.
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February 25: Second Annual Boone Docs Film Festival
Feb 8, 2023
2nd Annual Boone Docs Film Festival
Saturday, February 25, 2023, from 2-5 p.m.
Appalachian Theatre of the High Country (559 West King Street, Boone, NC 28607)
General Admission: $10
January 30: Black in Appalachia Common Reading Event
Jan 24, 2023
BOONE, N.C. — This year’s common reading, Junaluska: Oral Histories of a Black Appalachian Community, provides an intimate view into the historically African American community of Junaluska in Boone, North Carolina.
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Appalachian Journal (vol. 49, no. 3-4) now available
Dec 8, 2022
BOONE, N.C. — The newest issue of Appalachian Journal (vol. 49, no.
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November 17: "Gather, Heal, Grow" with Nico Albert Williams
Nov 10, 2022
BOONE, N.C. — Join Cherokee Chef Nico Albert Williams of Burning Cedar Indigenous Foods for a discussion on how ancestral foods can create a pathway to healing generational trauma and health disparities caused by the colonization of the Indigenous people of North America.
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