News of the Appalachian Literary Arts

News of the Appalachian Literary Arts For updates and expanded listings, please see our web site at www.berea.edu/ApCenter/AppHeritage.html Barbara Kingsolver, a native of Carlisle, KY, was recently honored as the overall winner in the Nautilus Awards of 2003 for her book Small Wonders. This nation-wide award is for authors who "contribute significantly to conscious living and positive social change." Among the winners of the nation-wide IPPY Awards—The Independent Publisher's Book Awards—are Jeff Daniel Marion in the Poetry category for Ebbing and Flowing Springs and Kiki DeLancey in the Short Story category for Coal Miner's Holiday. Ron Rash was a finalist in the General Fiction category for One Foot in Eden. Ron Rash has been awarded Forward magazine's prestigious first place Gold Award for Best Literary Fiction of 2002 for his novel, One Foot in Eden. "Irish Mountain" by Pinckney Benedict will appear in The Best of the Small Presses: The Pushcart Prize: 2003 XXVII. The story first appeared in the literary magazine, Zoetrope:All Story and is available on line at: www.allstory.com/issues.cgi?action=show_story&story_id=133 The novels A Parchment ofLeaves by Silas House and The Last Girls by Lee Smith have been nominated for the Southern Book Critics Circle Award. Silas House was recently voted Kentucky's Best Author in a statewide poll announced in the June issue of Kentucky Monthly. Barbara Kingsolver came in third. The first place winners of this year's Tennessee Mountain Writers Awards are for Poetry: Marianne Worthington of Williamsburg, KY. Non-fiction: Penny Dyer of Chattanooga, TN. Youth: Frank Jamison of Kinston, TN. Jimmy Carl Harris of Birmingham, AL won in both the fiction and the inspirational categories. 12 ...