Cormac McCarthy Literary Festival

Blount County Public Library
Event Location: 
Blount County Public Library
When: 
Friday, November 1, 2019 - 5:30am to Sunday, November 3, 2019 - 12:15pm

The Cormac McCarthy Literary Festival celebrates authors preserving culture, sparking conversation and weaving tales in Appalachia. This three day festival, November 1st-3rd, 2019 will showcase local and regional authors, celebrate local history and Blount County Public Library's Centennial, and have activities for the whole family to engage with East Tennessee’s unique literary history.

The festival is named after Cormac McCarthy to highlight his time in Blount County and also a piece of public art he made in 1971 while living here. This seven-ton Aztec-inspired mosaic was originally sited in downtown Maryville, but relocated to the library property in July 2000, during construction (and renovation of the downtown streetscape).

Confirmed authors attending the festival are Ron Rash and Sharyn McCrumb.

Ron Rash is the author of the 2009 PEN/Faulkner finalist and New York Times bestseller Serena and Above the Waterfall, in addition to four other prize-winning novels, The Cove, One Foot in Eden, Saints at the River, and The World Made Straight.

Sharyn McCrumb is an award-winning Southern writer, best known for her Appalachian “Ballad” novels, set in the North Carolina/Tennessee mountains, including the New York Times Best Sellers, The Ballad of Tom Dooley, She Walks These Hills and The Rosewood Casket. ​

For the full schedule of events and authors, please visit their website.