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April 19, 2007 issue


Cold Mountain Review Celebrates
35th Anniversary with Fundraiser

Cold Mountain Review, a literary journal housed in the Department of English at ASU, will hold a fundraiser gala at the Mariam and Robert Hayes Performing Arts Center in Blowing Rock, on Friday, April 20, from 6:30 to 9:00 p.m. The event marks the first of two celebrations commemorating CMR’s 35-year legacy.

The fundraiser includes readings by CMR co-founder and Appalachian alumnus Donald Secreast. Joining Secreast for the event will be author and playwright Bob Inman.

Secreast is the author of two short story collections: The Rat Becomes Light and White Trash, Red Velvet. He was Charles Frazier’s traveling companion for Frazier’s book Adventuring in the Andes, which carried them both through Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia. Secreast teaches creative writing and American literature at Radford University in Virginia.

Inman is the author of four novels, all published by Little, Brown and Company: Home Fires Burning, Old Dogs and Children, Dairy Queen Days and Captain Saturday. Inman’s first stage play, the musical comedy Crossroads had its world premiere in June 2003 at Blowing Rock Stage Company.

Come early and enjoy music, a delicious array of food and a cash bar showcasing North Carolina wines. After the readings, coffee and dessert catered by Stick Boy Bread Company will be served. The suggested donation is $25, but all are welcome.

The second event marking Cold Mountain Review’s 35th anniversary will be the unveiling of the special double-issue edited by Joseph Bathanti on October 27 at the Broyhill Inn and Conference Center in Boone.

The anniversary issue’s cover features the art of Scott Ludwig, an assistant professor in Appalachian’s Department of Art. Ludwig received a Fulbright-Hays Group Project grant that involved five weeks of travel and research in Turkey. He recently completed a trek across the country in search of “neo-post-pop-global Americana.”

Cold Mountain Review is a nonprofit literary journal that relies on donations, grants and subscriptions to remain viable and to bring the best contemporary writing to its readers. However, like most small literary magazines, and despite its notable history, the magazine still relies upon the generosity of readers and writers.

Donations from the April 20 fundraiser will assist Cold Mountain Review in publishing many of the best writers in the country, such as Betty Adcock, James Applewhite, Houston Baker, Ron Bayes, Fred Chappell, Susan Ludvigson, Lewis Nordan, Vivian Shipley and Virgil Suarez, all of whom are included in the 35th anniversary issue.

For more info, click to www.coldmountain.appstate.edu or e-mail Betty Conway at conwaybm@appstate.edu.

 

Want To Go?

Date: Friday, April 20
Time: 6:30 to 9:00 p.m.
Location: Hayes Performing Arts Center, Blowing Rock
Cost: $25 suggested donation