Faith Eidse, PhD, recently signed a Masthof Press publishing contract for her Kingsbury award-winning memoir, Deeper than African Soil, of surviving revolution, disease, and boarding school trauma while growing up among worlds in Congo, Canada and the U.S. She has published five fiction and non-fiction titles, including Florida’s oral history of 2007, Voices of the […]
Meredith Sue Willis
November 2, 2022 by Leave a Comment
Meredith Sue Willis grew up in a West Virginia family of teachers. She has published twenty-two books, and her novels and stories are considered part of the Appalachian Renaissance. She also writes science fiction, young adult, books for children, and books about how-to-write and how-to-teach-writing. She teaches novel writing at New York University’s School of […]
The Pat Conroy Residency
November 1, 2022 by Leave a Comment
The Pat Conroy Residency is accepting applications until December 14, 2022. The nonprofit Pat Conroy Literary Center offers a Writer’s Residency twice annually—typically in early March and early November, conjoined to our March Forth program and our Pat Conroy Literary Festival respectively. The residency is available to writers of all genres, published or unpublished, unless otherwise noted in the specific call […]
Kentucky Book Festival
October 27, 2022 by Leave a Comment
The 41st annual Kentucky Book Festival will return to Joseph-Beth Booksellers in Lexington on October 29, 2022. For details, see their website.
Edwina Pendarvis
October 19, 2022 by Leave a Comment
Edwina Pendarvis, Professor Emeritus, Marshall University College of Education, has authored books, chapters, and articles on creativity, literature, arts, and culture. She has served as an interim editor for Journal of Appalachian Studies and currently serves as book editor for Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel. She has written about the intersection of creativity and Appalachian culture […]
Atlanta Writers Conference Nov. 4-5, 2022
October 17, 2022 by Leave a Comment
This year’s Atlanta Writers Conference has seven parts. You can participate in all seven or pick and choose the parts you are interested in. Click here for the pricing of each activity. Except for the Pre-Conference Edits, which will occur via email exchanges, all activities will be in-person at the Westin Atlanta Airport Hotel on November 4-5, […]