Workshop with Scott Gould, Registration Required

Date: Wednesday, September 16 8:30 am – 10:30 am Topic: Writing from Life Without Writing Memoir, A Fiction Workshop with Scott Gould Learn strategies for blending lived experience with fiction to create richer, more authentic stories through examples and a hands-on writing prompt. Location: Ashe County Public Library This workshop is free but registration is required as space is limited. SCOTT GOULD Scott Gould is the author of six books, including Peace Like a River, The Hammerhead Chronicles, winner of the Eric Hoffer Award for Fiction, and Things That Crash, Things That Fly, which won a 2022 Memoir Prize for Books. His other honors include a Next Generation Indie Book Award, an IPPY Award for Fiction, the Larry Brown Short Story Award and the S.C. Arts Commission Artist Fellowship in Prose. His work has appeared in a number of publications, including Kenyon Review, Crazyhorse, Pithead Chapel, Garden & Gun, and New Stories from the South, among others. He lives in Sans Souci, South Carolina. https://www.scottgouldwriter.com Beneath a Fallen Sky, the newest novel from award-winning Southern writer Scott Gould, follows four unique characters as they face the potential end of the world during the passage of Halley’s Comet. May 1910. As Halley’s Comet hurtles toward Earth, panic grips the mountains of northeast Alabama. Experts predict the end of all life, and in Fort Payne, four townsfolk face their final days. Charlie McCracken continues his mail route up Sand Mountain, caring for an elderly Cherokee woman who escaped the Trail of Tears. His aunt Zona baptizes terrified townsfolk for a quarter each, preaching her improvised scripture. Sheriff Tyus Wetley struggles to hold his anxious town-and his marriage-together, while brothel madam Elva Shugart seeks redemption as the heavens prepare to fall. Over four harrowing days, their paths collide in unexpected and sometimes violent ways. Beneath a Fallen Sky is a sweeping, unforgettable portrait of fear, faith, and the resilience of hope when the world seems poised to end.