2024 Schedule of Events
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Writers & Readers Day
2022 Theme: “Diversity in Appalachian Literature”
The Virginia Highlands Festival’s tradition of celebrating Appalachian literature focuses on established and emerging writers, poets, and authors who share our diverse culture with the world. Literature is a circle of communication, and readers are the integral completion of that circle. To honor the full embrace of Appalachian Literature from inspiration to page to insight, we celebrate writers and readers with Writers & Readers Day.
Writers' Day
2021 Theme: “Telling Our Story”
Using memories to write poetry, drama, and fiction.
Writers’ Day celebrates writers of all genres and skill levels as they unite to create, collaborate, and appreciate literature. Writers’ Day workshops offer a wide variety of topics on literary fiction, poetry, drama, the art of illustration, and the adaptation process.
Writers' Day
A day of workshops that center around "writing from the heart using family and a sense of place in writing poetry, drama, and fiction.