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Welcome reader! Since its publication in 2007, Literary Trails of the North Carolina Mountains has sold very well. News of its distinctive approach to cultural tourism has stretched at least from New York to Australia. Thank you for your encouragement and interest in this project commissioned by the North Carolina Arts Council. No other statein the country that I know of has made this kind of investment in its literary heritage

The assignment to create tours that take readers and travelers along literal trails that trace out the lives and works of North Carolina's men and women of letters throughout history has unearthed pure treasure -- dozens of little known stories and anecdotes about the literary legends and the everyday writers of our state.

Volume II: Literary Trails of the North Carolina Piedmont--issued in October of 2010 and covering the heartland of the state--has also been well received by readers and reviewers (see below).

Publication of the Literary Trails series has led to the creation of this website, but information about the events surrounding that occasion is not all that is here. I invite you to meet the network of colleagues and friends with whom I have had the pleasure of collaboration over the years as a writer, teacher, consultant, and documentary producer. Here you can also find information about the Table Rock Writers Workshop, the Solatido Songwriters Workshop, and my consulting practice with nonprofits.

I am now well into the third volume of this series on Eastern North Carolina. In the meantime, you can order a personalized, autographed copy of either book from me on the Literary Trails page of this website.

Thanks for visiting.

Georgann Eubanks

"An especially engaging aspect of Literary Trails of the North Carolina Piedmont is Eubanks's use of second person. She speaks directly to readers and invites them to see with her eyes, listen with her ears, and eventually explore for themselves the routes laid out in the book. In an age where physical geography has been shrunk via telephone or internet communications, Eubanks expands the landscape, spotlighting treasures..." -- Lorraine Hale Robinson in the North Carolina Literary Review, number 20, 2011

Visit UNC Press to read an interview with Georgann about the new book

What reviewers said about the first volume of Literary Trails:

"A treasure of a book!"
--Nancy Olson, Quail Ridge Books & Music

"Although it has all the details to make
it a good travel guide, Literary Trails of
the North Carolina Mountains makes for great reading as well. Every page is
packed with little-known facts and fascinating anecdotes that will leave even
well-informed N.C. trivia buffs impressed."
---Renee Wright, NC Magazine

"...an ambitiously imaginative geographic and literary trek...an intensely detailed, highly readable guidebook"
--Marcy Smith, Book Page Editor,
The News & Observer, Raleigh

"A Smithsonian-quality guide"
--Rob Neufeld, Asheville Citizen-Times