“Reading helps me know what to do in my life and in the world. It also increases my capacity for empathy, which is a muscle that […]

“Growing up in a small southern town, you get to know who the storytellers are…. It took me a long time to come to the conclusion that, yes, […]

“Living in the lowcountry has given me a renewed purpose in life, and the festival grew out of that sense of direction…. I’m blessed to be able […]

“It’s like you find this true light, which for me was writing, and then you lose that light, and then you have to go find that true […]

 

“My impulse as a writer is to have readers enter a novel the same way you enter a dream.”–Wiley Cash

Porch Talk went to the 29th annual Southern […]