September 19-23, 2011 Wildacres Retreat, Little Switzerland, NC USA
Georgann Eubanks, director of the Table Rock Writers Workshop, is known as an innovative teacher of creative writing. She began teaching noncredit writing courses for adults at Duke University and led the Duke University Writers' Workshop for 20 years. She has been a guest lecturer in creative nonfiction at UNC-Chapel Hill and has also taught creative writing through the Mountain Arts Program in the Schools, at Women's Prison in Raleigh, and in a wide variety of corporate and nonprofit settings nationwide. For more than a decade she has also served as writing coach to the William Friday Fellows of the Wildacres Leadership Initiative.

Eubanks has published short stories, poems, reviews and profile pieces in a wide range of magazines including Southern Review, Boston Globe Sunday Magazine, Oxford American, Our State, DUKE Magazine, and North American Review. She has also earned two regional Emmy Awards for her writing for public television through Minnow Media, a full service production company headquarterd in Carrboro, North Carolina.

Eubanks's latest writing project is a series of guidebooks, commissioned by the North Carolina Arts Council and published by UNC Press, that feature tours of North Carolina based on excerpts from the literature of the state and stories about the writers who have worked here. Literary Trails of the North Carolina Mountains was released in 2007 and has been favorably reviewed nationwide and abroad as a model guidebook for literary tourism. Literary Trails of the North Carolina Piedmont, featuring authors from 27 counties in the middle of the state,was published in October 2010. The third volume, Literary Trails of Eastern North Carolina is currently in development.

Cindy Campbell, registrar, has worked in the magazine business her entire career and is expert at conference logistics. She will work to make sure your experience with Table Rock is solid and friendly!

Donna Campbell, hospitality coordinator, is a principal in Minnow Media and an Emmy-winning documentary producer and writer with a long track record in print journalism. She is also the photographer for the Literary Trails of North Carolina series from UNC Press.

THE MINNOW SCHOOL is the educational arm of Minnow Media, LLC which was founded in 2000 by Georgann Eubanks and Donna Campbell. We are the proud sponsors of the Table Rock Writers Workshop and Solatido: A Southern Singer/Songwriters Workshop.


Special Musical Guest
in Residence

RICHARD PUTNAM, music producer and composer, has been a session player in the southeast for the last 30 years. He is a pianist, keyboardist and arranger who is comfortable with all musical styles. Richard performed and arranged the music for the documentary Ruth and Billy Graham: What Grace Provides for which he earned an Emmy nomination. He also writes commercial music for TV and radio. His clients include Amoco, GTE, Blue Cross & Blue Shield, Carolina Healthcare Systems, Presbyterian Hospital, Bojangles, and many more. As a songwriter, Richard's "Too Good to Turn Back Now" reached the Billboard Top 100.

Richard will be working with the SOLATIDO songwriters who will be in residence with us on the mountain for the week and will perform for us on Thursday night.