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Malaprop's Bookstore / Cafe, in collaboration with Citizen Vinyl and Blue Ridge Public Radio, presents An Evening with Dale Neal + Special Guest Sheila Kay Adams. The author event takes place at Citizen Vinyl on Tuesday, July 23. Doors at 6 p.m., event at 7 p.m. Free. Dale Neal is the author of five novels: *The Kings of Coweetsee*, coming July 2024; *The Woman with the Stone Knife*, coming November 2024; *Appalachian Book of the Dead*, shortlisted for the Thomas Wolfe Literary Award; *Cow Across America*, winner of the Novello Literary Award; and *The Half-Life of Home*. His short stories and essays have appeared in *Our State, Smoky Mountain Living, North Carolina Literary Review, Carolina Quarterly*, and elsewhere. A former longtime journalist with the *Asheville Citizen-Times*, he earned an MFA in creative writing at Warren Wilson College. For more visit dalenealbooks.com. A seventh-generation ballad singer, storyteller and musician, Sheila Kay Adams was born and raised in the Sodom Laurel community of Madison County, an area renowned for its unbroken tradition of unaccompanied ballad singing dating back to the early Scottish, Scots-Irish, and English settlers in the mid-17th century. In 2013, she received the National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellowship Award, which recognizes traditional artists for artistic excellence and their efforts to preserve American culture for future generations. In 2016, she received the North Carolina Heritage Award. Presented by Citizen Vinyl. This is an all-ages event