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News of the Appalachian Literary Arts For updates and expanded listings, please see our web site at: www.berea.edu/appalachianheritage/litartsnews/default.html The Library of Congress has finally changed its subject heading (LCSH) from "Mountain Whites" to "Appalachians (People)" http:// www.lib.odu.edu/anss/sbacquestions/saco.html Kettle Bottom by Diane Gilliam Fisher has made the American Booksellers Association Book Sense Picks Poetry Top Ten for Spring 2005. http://news.bookweb.org/booksense/3300.html Finalists in fiction for the 2005 Southeastern Booksellers Association (SEBA) Book Award include: My Old True Love by Sheila Kay Adams, The Coal Tattoo by Silas House, and Saints at the River by Ron Rash. http://www.sebaweb.org/Awards/SEBABook/sebabook.htm Ron Rash has been announced as the tenth recipient of the Lillie D. Chaffin Literary Award presented each year by Morehead State University. The ceremony will take place on June 3. http://www.wcu.edu/pubinfo/news/Rashawards05.htm The Southern Kentucky Book Festival announced the Kentucky Literary Awards on April 15. Silas House was the winner in fiction for The Coal Tattoo, and James Baker Hall was the winner in poetry for The Total Light Process. Karen Salyer McElmurray was a finalist in non-fiction for The Surrendered Child. http://www.sokybookfest.org/BookFest06/klawinners04.htm The 2005 Tennessee Mountain Writers Contest Overall and Poetry and Writing for Young People Winner is Sylvia Woods of Oak Ridge, for Fiction is Vicki H. Moss of Chattanooga, for Non-Fiction is Judy L. DiGregorio of Oak Ridge, and for Inspirational is Patti Perry-Armes of Knoxville. http://www.tmwi.org/ June's Kentucky Educational Television's Bookclub featured book is Strange Birds in the Tree ofHeaven by Karen Salyer McElmurray. http:// www.ket.org/bookclub/ Lexington, Kentucky, Public Library's One Book of April 2005, was Clay's Quilt by Silas House, http://www.lexpublib.org/features/onebook/ ...

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