Hear four bright Indigenous voices in contemporary literature Thursday, April 9 at 12:30pm at Confluence: A WCU Litfest Panel.

Writers Vanessa Lillie (Cherokee Nation), Debora Taffa (Quechan [Yuma] Nation, Laguna Pueblo), and Shane Hawk (Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma) join our own Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle (Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians) in conversation.

Presented by the WCU Department of English Studies and the Museum of the Cherokee People with support from North Carolina Arts Council and South Arts, this event is a part of Western Carolina University’s Spring Literary Festival, an annual event dedicated to bringing established and emerging literary talent to the WCU campus and region.

Confluence: A WCU Litfest Panel is free of charge and open to all. Registration is not required.

Western Carolina University’s annual Spring Literary Festival has a long tradition of bringing established and emerging literary talent to our campus and region. It reflects WCU’s commitment to providing the best humanities education possible to its students and to bringing the best of the arts to the mountains.

The festival grew out of Western Carolina University’s Visiting Writers Series, the oldest such series in North Carolina. While the area has a rich literary heritage all its own, the festival seeks to secure that heritage’s place on the nation’s literary stage by bringing local and national writers together.