The West Virginia Fall Writers Conference will be Nov. 5, 2022 from 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m. at the Clarksburg Public Library. Sessions will be led by Marie Manilla, Art Stringer, John Van Kirk, and Renee Nicholson. For details, see wvwriters.org.
West Virginia Book Festival 2022
October 17, 2022 by Leave a Comment
The West Virginia Book Festival will be held Fri, Oct 21, 7 a.m. – Sat, Oct 22, 2 p.m. in the Charleston Coliseum & Convention Center. Details.
October Read of the Month: “Haints on Black Mountain: A Haunted Short Story Collection” by Ann Hite
October 6, 2022 by Leave a Comment
There are novelists who never master the short story form or who wouldn’t consider writing memoir. There are also writers of short fiction who balk at the idea of committing to a novel. And though 2012 Georgia Author of the Year and Townsend Prize finalist Ann Hite stays true to her Appalachian settings and Southern […]
“Alone in the House of My Heart” by Kari Gunter-Seymour
October 5, 2022 by Leave a Comment
Alone in the House of My Heart (Ohio University Swallow Press, 2022) is a rich and varied collection of poems by Kari Gunter-Seymour, Ohio Poet Laureate and founder/executive director of the “Women of Appalachia Project,” an arts organization she created to address discrimination directed at women from the Appalachian region. Divided in to five sections, […]
“The Strange Inheritance of Leah Fern,” by Rita Zoey Chin
October 5, 2022 by Leave a Comment
Reviewed by Donna Meredith Exquisitely beautiful and eerily wise. Deeply philosophical yet full of magic. An enchanting novel with intriguing characters. Rita Zoey Chin’s The Strange Inheritance of Leah Fern (Melville House, October 2022) is all these things—and more. In other words, a work of literary excellence. The novel begins with a disturbing scene. Leah […]