The Great Smokies Review

Profiles

Tommy Hays: A Writer in Full

by Marie Hefley

Abigail DeWitt: The World Began on D-Day

by Marie Hefley

Frances Mayes: Following the Sun

by Marie Hefley

When Art Reveals the Artist: A View of David Ebershoff

by Marie Hefley

A Serendipitous Life

by Marie Hefley

Jennifer McGaha: Homesteading Is Where Her
Heart Is

by Marie Hefley

Christine Hale: Meditations on Memoir

by Marie Hefley

Robert Beatty: Imagination, Invention, and Reinvention

by Marie Hefley

Denise Kiernan: First Comes Curiosity

by Marie Hefley

Megan Shepherd: “The Bookseller’s Daughter”

by Marie Hefley

Terry Roberts: When Life and Writing Intersect

by Marie Hefley

Wiley Cash: Always Home in the Mountains

by Marie Hefley

Danny Bernstein: One Step at a Time

by Jim Murphy

Cynn Chadwick—Can’t Help Telling Stories

by Marie Hefley

Creative Hyphenate Maryedith Burrell

by Nancy Russell-Forsythe

Vicki Lane: An Inspiration to the Rest of Us

by Nancy Russell-Forsythe

Heather Newton: First-Time Novelist

by Nancy Russell-Forsythe

For Patti Digh, Life Is a Verb

by Nancy Russell-Forsythe

Screenwriter Joe Stinson “Makes Her Day”

by Nancy Russell-Forsythe

  • TABLE OF CONTENTS

  • Issue 26 – Spring 2022

  • Home

    • Elizabeth Lutyens, Editor in Chief
      Sweet Smell of Success

    Recognition

    • Honoring Tommy Hays

    Reflection

    • Heather Newton
      “The Stole: Fiction, Memory, and Unwanted Legacies”

    Nonfiction

    • Lily Rountree
      “Bed Bugs”
    • Rachel Zoebry
      “Keeping Up with the Koploviches”

    Fiction

    • Cathy T. Scott
      “Mr. and Mrs.”
    • K. E. Dixon
      “Myrtle”
    • Brian Postelle
      “Hard Ground”
    • Amy Miller
      “First They Chose the Bait”
    • Orlando Davidson
      from Baseline Road

    Poetry

    • JF Upjohn
      “Beauty—Did You Miss It”
    • Priscilla Frake
      “Poems Don't Always Do What We Tell Them”

    Craft Session

    • Sebastian Matthews
      “Cut for the Dog: A Revision Tale”

    Interview

    • Janet Moore Talks with Heather Newton
      “One Messy Mess”: Recipe for a Full Life

    Archives

  • TGSR

    Elizabeth Lutyens, Editor-in-Chief, Founder
    Janet Moore, Special Features Editor
    Julie Abbott, Submissions Editor
    Zoe Newton, UNC Asheville Intern
    Lilly Danzis, GSWP Administrative Assistant
    Michael Mauney, Photographer

    The Great Smokies Review is an online publication of The Great Smokies Writing Program, a joint effort of the UNC Asheville departments of Literature and Language, Creative Writing, and the Asheville Graduate Center.

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