Award-Winning Author and Teacher Dale Neal Shares Tips for How to Write Past Appalachian Stereotypes Like Moonshine and Snakehandlers

In this episode, host Landis Wade has a conversation with award-winning author Dale Neal about how to imagine the now, not rehashing the past, how to write past the easy stereotypes of Southern Gothic and Appalachian literature. Access the episode HERE

Dale Neal is a novelist, teacher and veteran journalist, living in Asheville about a mile from the banks of the French Broad River. He is the author of “Appalachian Book of the Dead,” award-winning “Cow Across America” and “The Half-Life of Home.” As a reporter, he traveled everywhere from Upper Paw Paw in Madison County to Karachi in Pakistan, covering culture, books, religion, business, science and technology for the Asheville Citizen-Times. He currently teaches fiction and nonfiction at Lenoir-Rhyne University’s Asheville Center for Graduate Studies.