Events

Upcoming Events:

August 26, 2025, 7:00-8:30 pm, ET: Online generative writing session with special guest Shannon Knapp from Heart of Horse Sense, an equine therapy center. More details TBA. Free & open to the public, but registration required. Link will be made available at the beginning of August.

October 5, 2025, (welcome reception at 1:00 pm, ET, followed by reading and book signing at 2:30 pm): Reading & Discussion with poet Jane Hirshfield co-sponsored by the Western North Carolina Arboretum and Malaprop’s Bookstore, WNC Arboretum Educational Center, 20 Frederick Law Olmsted Way, Asheville, NC. IN-PERSON ONLY. Free & open to the public, but registration required. Link will be made available at the beginning of August.

October 21, 2025, 7:00-8:30 pm, ET: Online generative writing session with special guest Zoë Fay-Stint, our 2024-25 Hellbender Fellow. More details TBA. Free & open to the public, but registration required. Link will be made available at the beginning of October.

December 9, 2025, 7:00-8:30 pm, ET: Online generative writing session with special guest poet Kim Stafford. More details TBA. Free & open to the public, but registration required. Link will be made available by mid-November.

Past Events:

May 2-4, 2025: Panel presentation at the North Carolina Writers’ Network Conference: What the Mountains Need Now (Nickole Brown, Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle, Tanya Davis, Jeremy Jones, Ronni Lundy), Asheville, NC.

April 27, 2025: Reading featuring poets Zoë Fay-Stindt, Lacy Snapp, & Catherine Jagoe as part of the Writers at Home Reading Series co-sponsored by the University of North Carolina Asheville’s Great Smokies Writing Program and Malaprop’s Bookstore, Asheville, NC. Free & open to the public.

March 26-30, 2025: Two panels at the Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) Conference: Hellbent Hope: Poets Holding Fast During This Time of Ecological Crisis (Nickole Brown joined David Baker, CMarie Fuhrman, and Matthew Olzmann) & Poetry & Climate: Building Eco-Resilience Through Poetry & Community Action (Nickole Brown joined David Hassler, Jane Hirshfield, Kimberly Blaeser, & Sean Hill).

February 12, 2025: Online generative writing session: The First Answer is Love: A Valentine to the Earth with special guest Tierra Curry from the Center for Biological Diversity. Free & open to the public.

January 25, 2025: Generative writing workshop—Hellbent Hope—to bear witness to Hurricane Helene, First Presbyterian, Burnsville, NC. Free & open to the public.

January 2, 2025: Online generative writing session: Ring The Bells: Intentions & Practices for The Coming Year with special guest poets Jane Hirshfield and Kai Coggin. Free & open to the public.

December 16, 2024: Generative writing workshop—Hellbent Hope—to bear witness to Hurricane Helene, Bagatelle Books, West Asheville, NC. Free & open to the public.

December 14, 2024: Generative writing workshop—Hellbent Hope—to bear witness to Hurricane Helene, Malaprop’s Bookstore, Asheville, NC. Free & open to the public.

December 12, 2024: Generative writing workshop—Hellbent Hope—to bear witness to Hurricane Helene, City Lights Bookstore, Sylva, NC. Free & open to the public.

December 1, 2024: Online generative writing session in collaboration with Poet Camp: Climate Catastrophe & The Writer’s Task, led by Nickole Brown.

November 23, 2024: Generative writing workshop—Hellbent Hope—to bear witness to Hurricane Helene, First Presbyterian, The Wild Violet, Mars Hill, NC. Free & open to the public.

November 21, 2024: Online generative writing session: Gratitude Difficult But Necessary: The Practice of Awe & Awareness Amidst Ecological Crisis with special guest poet Kai Coggin. Free & open to the public.

October 19, 2024: Community reading to bear witness to Hurricane Helene, House Gathering, Asheville, NC.