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Sherry Austin

Art Form: Fiction Writing/Non-Fiction Writing

Flat Rock, NC

Web Site: http://www.sherryaustin.com

 

About Sherry Austin

Sherry Austin is the author of MARIAH OF THE SPIRITS, a collection of literary ghost stories, as well as the more recent novel, WHERE THE WOODBINE TWINES. She has been awarded two literary fellowships--one for fiction and one for literary nonfiction--from the North Carolina Arts Council, an agency funded by the state of North Carolina and the National Endowment for the Arts. She has also received an award and residency from the Blumenthal Foundation; a nomination for fiction for the Sir Walter Raleigh Award; and a nomination for the Appalachian Book of the Year Award. She was a 2005 speaker for the North Carolina Humanities Council on the topics "The Literary Ghost" and "The Great Blue Hills of God: A Search for Spirit in Southern Appalachia." She is currently working in the literary nonfiction genre. Her website is www.sherryaustin.com. She lives in Flat Rock, NC.

Touring Artists Directory Profile

Austin offers two programs. “Reading and Writing Fiction Fantastique” is a two-hour workshop that introduces participants to a kind of speculative fiction known as “weird” literature (e.g., slipstream, interstitial, bizarro) which has roots in the magical realism of surrealist authors such as Julio Cortazar, Jorges Luis Borges, Italo Calvino, and others. Adventurous readers and writers will go away inspired to stretch their minds toward the borderlands of the human imagination. Appropriate for adults of all ages. Fee: $400 plus expenses. “Writing the Days Between Your Years” is a day-long workshop in which participants learn and practice the tools professional writers use to create one strong, well-crafted, compulsively readable short piece of memoir in a fun, comfortable environment. Also for adults of all ages. Fee: $1,200 plus expenses. Can also be done as a residency; fee negotiable.