Meet a Bestselling Southern Author
Wiley Cash is the New York Times bestselling author of four novels, including A Land More Kind than Home, and the founder of This Is Working, an online creative community. He is the 2025 recipient of the North Carolina Award for Literature, the state’s highest civilian honor.
A three-time Southern Book Prize winner, his most recent work, When Ghosts Come Home, is a haunting Southern thriller of hidden secrets and racial tension set in coastal North Carolina.
Lit Chat Interview
Wiley Cash joins us from 2 to 3 p.m. on Saturday, April 11, at Southeast Library for a 40-minute conversation with author C.H. Hooks, followed by 20 minutes of audience Q&A. Over the past several years, he has been a sought after in-conversation partner, having been asked to join writers like Kwame Alexander, Erik Larson, David Zucchino and Lisa Jewell for events.
A book signing will follow the Lit Chat, with books available for sale on site by San Marco Books & More. Books can be pre-ordered on their website and picked up at the program.
Keep Reading
Check out Cash’s works from the Library!
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- Harbor Lights, by James Lee Burke
- Fever Beach, by Carl Hiaasen
- The Maltese Iguana, by Tim Dorsey
- Owning Up, by George Pelecanos
- Razorblade Tears, S. A. by Cosby
- This is Why We Lied, by Karin Slaughter
Writer's Lab: Writing in Place
Earlier that day, Wiley Cash will present a free 90-minute writing workshop. He’s been a fellow at Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony, and he teaches fiction writing and literature at the University of North Carolina-Asheville, where he serves as the Executive Director of the Literary Arts.
Join us starting at 10:30 a.m. at Southeast Library to discuss how place can inform, limit, and embolden you and the characters you're writing about.
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