2016-464-E Arts - Eno Publishers - Spring 2016 Arts Grant Agreement

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DocuSign Envelope ID:A7B705FD-OEDD-4AC5-8764-8905D8B8991 F ENO Publishers Narrative 2016 OCAC Spring Application Organizational Profile Eno Publishers, a nonprofit publisher in Hillsborough,North Carolina, was started in 2007. We have a distinctly local and regional emphasis. Eno's mission is to publish books in print and online about the culture and history of the Carolinas and other areas of the South. To date, we've published 14 books, at the rate of two a year. Eno publishes the "27 Views" series, a collection of local anthologies from eight North Carolina communities. Our first two volumes in the series, 27 Views of Hillsborough and 27 Views of Chapel Hill, both received funding from the Orange County Arts Commission and feature the work of dozens of Orange County writers. These books strive to create a sense of place by inviting twenty-seven local authors to write about some aspect of their hometown. Most recently, we have focused our editorial program on Elizabeth Keckley, a nineteenth- century woman who was enslaved at the Burwell School in Hillsborough. She went on to purchase her freedom in the 1850s and become a highly sought after dress designer and dressmaker in Civil War-era Washington, DC. She became the dressmaker for and the confidante of First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln, which Keckley wrote about in her controversial 1868 memoir, Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House. Eno has just reissued the memoir. In addition we are publishing the first of two Elizabeth Keckley Readers, collections of scholarship that focus on the life,work, and legacy of Keckley. Current Programs and Services List of Eno Publishers books currently in print: 2016 • Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House, by Elizabeth Keckley; introduction by Dolen Perkins-Valdez • The Elizabeth Keckley Reader, Volume One: Writing Nation, Writing Self, edited with an introduction by Sheila Smith McKoy 2015 • 27 Views of Wilmington: The Port City in Prose & Poetry; introduction by Celia Rivenbark • 27 Views of Greensboro: The Gate City in Prose & Poetry; introduction by Marianne Gingher 2009-2014 • Undaunted Heart(the story of Chapel Hill's Ella Swain), by Suzy Barile • Rain Gardening in the South, by Helen Kraus &Anne Spafford • Chapel Hill in Plain Sight, by Daphne Athas • 27 Views of Hillsborough: A Southern Town in Prose & Poetry; introduction by Michael Malone • 27 Views of Chapel Hill: A Southern University Town in Prose & Poetry; introduction by Daniel Wallace • Brook Trout and the Writing Life, by Craig Nova • 27 Views of Asheville: A Southern Mountain Town in Prose & Poetry; introduction 1