Road Scholars Speakers Bureau

Georgann Eubanks

Author, consultant

Carrboro, NC

W: (919) 454-7429

ge@minnowmedia.net

Travel regions: negotiable

About Georgann Eubanks:

Georgann Eubanks is a writer and consultant with more than 25 years of experience in the nonprofit sector. Eubanks has published short stories, poems, reviews, an profiles in many magazines and journals including Oxford American, Bellingham Review, Southern Review, Boston Globe Sunday Magazine, and North American Review. She is a North Carolina Arts Council Literary Fellowship recipient, winner of a regional Emmy, former chair of the North Carolina Humanities Council, and former president of Arts North Carolina. Eubanks has served as director of the Duke University Writers Workshop (a summer writing program for adults) since 2989 and is the writing coach for the Friday Fellowship of the Wildacres Leadership Initiative.

Literary Trails of the North Carolina Mountains

With historic and present day photos and excerpts from the region’s writers of poetry, fiction, plays and memoir, Georgann Eubanks serves as energetic guide on a tour of the North Carolina mountains as revealed through its literature. From Wilma Dykeman to Carl Sandburg, Horace Kephart to Robert Morgan, Manley Wade Wellman to Sharyn McCrumb, learn how these writers came to love North Carolina and permanently enshrine the particularities of mountain culture in their works. This presentation is based on the guidebook of the same title, published by UNC Press in 2007.

Requirements: lectern, microphone, screen

Literary Trails of the North Carolina Piedmont

Why has the Piedmont, and Charlotte in particular, produced so many writers of mystery and crime novels? How has the textile mill culture influenced Piedmont literature throughout the 20th and into the 21st century? What are the roots of North Carolina’s extraordinary proliferation of creative writers? Based on her guidebook by the same title, Georgann Eubanks answers these questions and takes readers on a literary tour of North Carolina’s Piedmont, past and present.