News of the Appalachian Literary Arts

News of the Appalachian Literary Arts For updates and expanded listings, please see our website at: www.herea.edu/ApCenter/AppHeritage.html "Still Moments," an exhibit in tribute to the late James Still, which includes the cover photo of this magazine, is currently accepting bookings. Contact Judy Hensley at judith@kih.net. This exhibit features Jennifer McDaniel's photos with Still's poems, oil paintings by Rhonda Robinson and Judith Victoria Hensley's photos of individuals alongside their written tributes to James Still. The exhibit opened last year at Southeast Community College in Cumberland, Kentucky, and it was on display throughout October at Lincoln Memorial University in Harrogate, Tennessee. Winners of the Appalachian Writers Association contest for 2002 are: Story - "Private Adoption" by Bev Olert. Essay - "Mother's Kitchen" by Sue Richardson Orr. Poetry-"LATE WINTER 1958: Big Sandy Valley" by Stephen M. Holt - on page 112 of this magazine! The twenty-first annual Literary Festival of Emory and Henry College, Emory, Virginia, honored Michael McFee, a native of Arden, North Carolina. It was held October 3-4, 2002. Lee Smith's new novel, The Last Girls, is a Literary Guild, Doubleday and Book of the Month Club selection. Silas House's new novel, A Parchment of Leaves, is a Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club selection. Richard Drake's A History of Appalachia is a History Book Club selection. A Hollywood movie based on the best-selling novel, Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier, is scheduled for release on December 25, 2003, by Mirimax Films. Jude Law is cast as Inman and Nicole Kidman as Ada. The Director/Screenwriter is Anthony Minghella. Doris Buchanan Smith, the author of Return to Bitter Creek and other outstanding youth novels, died in Atlanta at the age of 68 on August 8, 2002. A memorial service was held in Hayesville, North Carolina, on September 8. ...