June 2009
Friday, June 12 - Appalachian Heritage Featured Author Reading. A panel of writers will speak and read in honor of Jim Wayne Miller, Featured Author of the Summer 2009 issue of Appalachian Heritage. This includes his widow, Mary Ellen Miller; former Appalachian Center director, Loyal Jones; and Morris Grubbs, editor of the Jim Wayne Miller reader forthcoming from the University Press of Kentucky. He is also the editor of Conversations with Wendell Berry and Home and Beyond: An Anthology of Kentucky Short Stories. The reading will be held in conjunction with the Alumni Office during the Summer Reunion, as both Jim Wayne and Mary Ellen Miller are alumni of Berea College and will take place in the Appalachian Center Gallery in the Bruce Building on the Berea College campus. Refreshments will be served at 7:30 p.m. and the reading will begin at 8:00 p.m.
Friday, June 12 - Sunday June 14 – Mountain Heritage Literary Festival at Lincoln Memorial University. The Mountain Heritage Literary Festival is in its fourth year, and among the many speakers is Denise Giardina, this year’s keynote speaker. For more information on the Festival, please click here.
Sunday, June 14 – Friday, June 19 – Tinker Mountain Writers' Workshop at Hollins University. Choose from a variety of workshops led by a remarkably talented faculty. Space is limited. For more information, please visit www.hollins.edu/tmww.