“Alchemy of Craft: That’s the Thing About Ceremony…” with Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle
April 11, 2:00-4:00pm
In-person at UNC Asheville’s Reuter Center
From flash to fairytales to long-form fiction, our goal as storytellers is to create a spell that binds us to our readers. This workshop will focus on casting this spell through the cultivation of essential craft ingredients, understanding the measurement of literary devices, and how to stir the pot without it boiling over.
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR
Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle is an enrolled citizen of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and lives in Cherokee, North Carolina. A graduate of Yale University and the College of William & Mary, Clapsaddle is the author of Even As We Breathe (UPK, 2020), the first novel published by an enrolled citizen of the Eastern Band of Cherokee. The novel was a finalist for the Weatherford Award, winner of the 2021 Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award, and named one of NPR’s Best Books of 2020.
Clapsaddle currently serves on the Board of Trustees for the North Carolina Writers’ Network, the Board of Directors for the Museum of the Cherokee People and is an editor for the University Press of Kentucky’s Appalachian Futures series. In 2025, she was named Appalachian Heritage Writer-in-Residence at Shepherd University.
Registration Information
- Cost: $75.00
- Parking: Parking is located in front of and behind the Reuter Center. Visitors to UNCA campus will need to purchase a $3 visitor parking permit.
- Questions? Email ldanzis@unca.edu