Craft Talk with George Hovis: Setting, the Birthplace for a Novel
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In this episode 261, host Landis Wade has a craft talk with George Hovis, an award-winning author and professor about strategies for finding the mysterious, the surreal, and the sublime available in everyday landscapes and explores how setting gives birth to characters and plots–and how, in turn, the actions of characters define a place.
About the Author:
George Hovis’s novel The Skin Artist (SFK, 2019) was a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Book Award and nominated for the Sir Walter Raleigh Award. George is also the author of the monograph Vale of Humility: Plain Folk in Contemporary North Carolina Fiction (University of South Carolina Press, 2007). A Pushcart Prize nominee and winner of the Denny C. Plattner Award from Appalachian Heritage, his short stories and essays have appeared widely, in such journals as The Carolina Quarterly, Southern Cultures, Mississippi Quarterly, Limestone, The Southern Literary Journal, and North Carolina Literary Review. He is a professor of English at SUNY Oneonta and a recipient of the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching. George earned a PhD in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and has attended the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and the Appalachian Writers’ Workshop and has lectured on the craft of fiction writing at the Amelia Island Book Festival, The North Carolina Writers’ Network, UNC-Wilmington, Murray State University, the Charlotte Writers’ Club, and Charlotte Lit.
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