October 2007
Friday, October 12—Sunday, October 14—The Kentucky State Poetry Society Annual Meeting will be held at Blue Licks Battlefield State Resort Park. Festivities will include poetry readings, music, a poetry workshop, and an awards banquet. Eastern Kentucky poet and novelist, Rebecca Bailey, is the keynote speaker and workshop leader. For more information, contact Sally Adkins, KSPS President, P.O. Box 24, South Shore, KY 41175, email .
Saturday, October 13—Sunday, October 14—The seventh annual West Virginia Book Festival will be held at the Charleston Civic Center. George Brosi will be leading a workshop at the Festival. There is also an Elderhostel in conjunction with the Festival. For more info on the Elderhostel, visit here.
Sunday, October 14—Robert Morgan will kick off his nation-wide booksigning tour (Boone: A Biography) in Pikeville, Kentucky at Booknotes at 3:00 p.m. 180 Town Mountain Road. Info from Glenda Hall at 606-437-1030.
Tuesday, October 16—Dorothy Foltz-Gray, writer for O, The Oprah Magazine and others, will lead a workshop titled "Writing for Magazines: Queries that Work" for people who want to learn how to target ideas and write successful queries to national magazine editors. The workshop will be at the UT Conference Center in downtown Knoxville, TN, 6-9:00 p.m. You can sign up on-line; by telephone with credit card-865 974 0150; by mail using a registration form from the extension catalog; by faxing that form (865 974-0154); or in person at 313 UT Conference Center (the old Miller building).
Wednesday, October 17—The Pike County Library Fall Festival of Authors and Folk Artists will have authors signing and selling their books, as well as writing workshops with Chris Holbrook, Crystal Wilkinson, George Eklund, Gwyn Hyman Rubio, Silas House, and Paul Brett Johnson. Participation is free. For more information, contact or 606-432-1275.
Thursday, October 18 and Friday, October 19th — The 26th Annual Emory & Henry College Literary Festival featuring Michael Chitwood, Emory, Virginia
Friday, October 19–Sunday, October 21—The Southern Appalachian Writers Cooperative (SAWC) will meet at the Highlander Center in New Market, Tennessee.
Saturday, October 20—Celebration of Area Authors at Montgomery County High School in Mt. Sterling, Kentucky, sponsored by Montgomery County Council for the Arts. About 20 authors will be signing and selling their works. There will also be a used book sale and bake sale. For more information, email .
Tuesday, October 23—Silas House will visit Portsmouth, Ohio, where he will speak at the Portsmouth Public Library at 2:00 p.m. and the Clark Memorial Library at 7:00 p.m. His novel, Clay’s Quilt is the community’s “One Book” this year. For more details, email Mary at .
Wednesday, October 24—Writers Normandi Ellis, Libby Falk Jones, Steve Rhodes, and Barbara Wade will read from their works at Artspace (Berea Arts Council, on the College Square in Berea) at 7:00 p.m. For more information, contact Gwen Childs, Director of Berea Arts Council, 859-985-9317.
Friday, October 26—The 2007 Bill Russell River Hero Award will be awarded to Wilma Dykeman, who passed away last December at the age of 86. The Tennessee Clean Water Network’s Bill Russell River Hero Award honors those who strive to protect, restore and enhance the watersheds of Tennessee and the communities that depend on them. The event will be held at the Foundry in Knoxville, TN. Tickets are $30. For more info, visit http://www.tcwn.org/riverhero/h/event.php.
Saturday, October 27—Playwriting Workshop with Jerry Stubblefield Aspiring playwrights will learn the format and structure for writing the one, two or three-act play, including characterization, dialogue, theme, and resolution. Stubblefield earned his BFA in Playwriting from the University of Texas, and has studied with David Henry Hwang, Arthur Miller, Wendy Wasserstein and others. Saturday, 10-4pm. 75, or $70 for Workshop members. Held at held at The Writers' Workshop, 387 Beaucatcher Road, in Asheville, NC. Registration is in advance since class size is limited, either online, or by mail: The Writers' Workshop, 387 Beaucatcher Rd., Asheville, NC, 28805. For more information please contact , or call 828-254-8111.