Banquet Speaker: Terry Roberts
Terry Roberts is an acclaimed novelist, scholar, and teacher. His debut novel, A Short Time to Stay Here, won the Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction, and his second novel, That Bright Land, won the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award, as well as the James Still Award for Writing about the Appalachian South. Both novels won the annual Sir Walter Raleigh Award, given to the author of the best novel written by a North Carolinian. Roberts’ third novel, The Holy Ghost Speakeasy and Revival, was published in 2018. An accomplished literary scholar and former editor of The Thomas Wolfe Review, Roberts is Director of the National Paideia Center and lives in Asheville, North Carolina.
