Cauley wins first two Wilma Dykeman Awards for Writers of Color
Crystal Cauley, a Hendersonville creative writer, spoken word poet and African American advocate, recently won two awards for short stories published in The Urban News.
Cauley was the recipient of the first two Wilma Dykeman Awards for Writers of Color along with $200 for The Talking Walls and Grounded: A Mother s Love.
Wilma Dykeman was a writer, speaker, teacher, historian, environmentalist and social justice advocate who lived near the French Broad River in the mountains of North Carolina and Tennessee.
Dykeman is a North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame inductee. She died in 2006.
Rutherford County Library System Updates Jul 19, 2021 at 09:30 pm by WGNS
The local library system in Rutherford County has updates for the community, as heard above!
Pre-K story time is back at the Linebaugh Library in Murfreesboro…
If you need more details…
Learn more online HERE.
More Library News: Friends of Linebaugh Library Celebrates 40th Anniversary
Rutherford County, TN Founded in July of 1981, the Friends of Linebaugh Library (FOLL) is celebrating its 40th anniversary. The goals set for the organization in 1981 remain the same: to stimulate interest in enrichment of the resources and facilities of the Linebaugh Public Library; to provide an opportunity for those interested in the library to participate through exhibits, programs, and publications; and to attract bequests and gifts, books, manuscripts, other library materials, and money above and beyond resources of the library. MTSU Professor Dr. William Beasley was elected as the first
ASHEVILLE, North Carolina (WLOS) The community will honor author Wilma Dykeman on Thursday, May 20, on what would have been her 101st birthday, and the public is invited to help celebrate.
The celebration will take place from 3-6 p.m. on Thursday at 8 River Arts Place in Asheville, in the River Arts District.
Dykeman has meant a great deal and been instrumental in the development of the French Broad Riverfront that the community recently named the new greenway after her.
Here is a list of events to commemorate her birthday:
3 pm play reading: Actress Lauren Fortuna will read from an in-progress work: a one-woman play about Wilma Dykeman.
She don t try to hide it
Diamonds on the soles of her shoes . . .
Well that s one way to lose these
Walking blues .
Whereas Paul Simon’s rich lady friend had “diamonds on the soles of her shoes,” you and I will probably have to make-do with mica. We could do worse. There are sunny days when millions of mica flakes sparkle in the stones we walk upon to help us lose “those walking blues.”
The word “mica” is derived from the Latin “micare” for “to shine or glitter.”
Two thousand years BC, when thin sheets were used as surfaces for painting mythological scenes, it was supposed that mica represented the preserved form of lightning flashes.