NCWC: Visiting Writers Series

The Visiting Writers Series has been an integral part of the cultural life of North Carolina Wesleyan College since the 1960s. Each year, the College invites up to seven writers to read from their work and meet with students. Recently, the Series has paid particular attention to writers from Eastern North Carolina or of the Black Mountain School.

Past visitors to the campus include:

Derek Walcott, winner of the Nobel Prize;
Robert Creeley, acknowledged as one of the major voices in contemporary American poetry;
Jonathan Williams and Fielding Dawson, important writers from the Black Mountain tradition;
Reynolds Price and Doris Betts, writers from the American South whose works, spanning decades,are considered seminal to contemporary Southern letters;
Kaye Gibbons and Allan Gurganus, new award-winning Southern writers.

What is more, appearances by Louise Anderson, Hermine Pinson, and Jim Barnes, among others, accentuate the College's commitment to writers of color and the many, diverse cultures of eastern North Carolina in particular and the United States in general.

Upcoming events in the Visiting Writers Series are posted in the College Events Calendar.