Clint Bowman & Emma Ensley

Name: Clint Bowman & Emma Ensley
Start: 2025-01-26T13:00:00-05:00
Location: 3 East Jackson Street, Sylva, NC, United States, North Carolina 28779

Schedule

Sun, 26 Jan, 2025 at 01:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

3 East Jackson Street, Sylva, NC, United States, North Carolina 28779 | Sylva, NC

Clint Bowman & Emma Ensley will visit City Lights Bookstore for a reading on Sunday, January 26th at 1:00pm. Clint will read from his latest poetry collection, "If Lost", and Emma from her forthcoming story collection, "The Computer Room".
Inspired by the mountains, forests, animals, and people of Appalachia, "If Lost" is Clint Bowman's exhilarating debut about how these elements collide and struggle to co-exist in an ever-changing landscape. Bowman's poems are a guide through this beautiful, brutal, and often misunderstood world where threats to the region come from all sides. Invasive species strangle the trees around corrupt churches and failing convenience stores, while truckers cry in parking lots and deer contemplate death along the highway. In "If Lost", Bowman demonstrates how everyone and everything is lost in some way, but that it's possible to find a way out.
"The Computer Room", Emma Ensley's stunning debut collection of short stories, captures messy, heartfelt, and often surreal moments of coming of age in small-town America in the early days of the internet. Through 12 unforgettable stories, Ensley brings to life the joys, fears, and complexities of adolescence and early adulthood—where first loves, friendships, and the search for identity collide with messy bedrooms, teenage rebellion, and the quiet hum of the family computer. Ensley’s sharp, heartfelt writing makes you laugh, reflect, and feel connected to those fleeting moments of youth when everything seemed both endlessly possible and impossibly confusing.
Clint Bowman is a native of Davidson County, North Carolina. His debut chapbook, "Pretty Sh!t", was published in May 2023 by Bottlecap Press. Clint is the co-founder and facilitator of the Dark City Poets Society (DCPS) in Black Mountain, NC, where he currently lives with his family. When Clint isn't volunteering his time to the DCPS, he works as a recreation coordinator— leading hikes, river cleanups, trail workdays, and other outdoor programs.
Emma Ensley is a fiction writer, artist, and graphic designer living in Asheville, North Carolina. She grew up in North Georgia and on the internet, and considers both places equally influential to her work. Her short fiction has appeared in Joyland, The Quarterless Review, and Peach Mag.