Winter 2005
The fabulous new West Virginia Literary map, the culmination of a tremendous effort spearheaded by Phyllis Moore, is now available for purchase here.
Kathryn Stripling Byer of
Cullowhee has been named North Carolina Poet Laureate.
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Ron Rash’s “Speckle Trout” published by The Kenyon Review has been selected to be included in the O. Henry Prize Stories 2005. [ Read More ]
The Fellowship of Southern Writers will award the Cleanth Brooks Medal for Lifetime Achievement to George Garrett, the Robert Penn Warren Prize for Fiction to David Madden and the James Still Award for Writing of the Appalachian South to Ron Rash. Robert Morgan will be inducted into the Fellowship in April. [ Read More ]
The 23rd Annual Literary Festival at Emory and Henry College in Emory, Virginia, last September honored West Virginia poet, Maggie Anderson.
The seventh annual Library of Virginia Literary Awards presented George Garrett of Charlottesville with the Literary Lifetime Achievement Award. R. T. Smith’s Brightwood: June 11, 2008 ok of poetry by a Virginian. [ Read More ]
Lee Smith served as fiction judge and Cathryn Hankla as poetry judge for the Tennessee Writers’ Alliance Writers’ Contest. In fiction, Ronald Lands of Oak Ridge was the winner, and in poetry, first place went to Reenie Mooney of Talbot, second place to Marianne Worthington, a native of Knoxville, and third place went to Frank Jamison of Kingston.