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/appalachianheritage/litartsnews/default.html Pushcart Prize XXX, to be released in November, will include R.T. Smith's story, "Jesus Wept," from the spring 2004 Southern Review and Diane Fisher's poem, "Pearlie Tells What Happened at School," originally published in her collection Kettle Bottom. www.perugiapress.com/events.html and http://news.wlu.edu/news/page/ normal/1303.html No Lonesome Road: The Prose and Poetry ofDon West, edited by Jeff Biggers and George Brosi, and reviewed in this issue by Chris Green, will be given anAmerican BookAward at a ceremony in Oakland, California, on September 4. http://www.bookweb.org/news/awards/1293.html The Southeast Bookseller's Association has announced the winners of the 2005 SEBA Book Awards. Saints at the River by Ron Rash won in the fiction division, http://rusoffagency.com/news/news3.htm Since 1970, Berea College has presented an annual Weatherford Award to the year's outstanding Appalachian book. Now, the award is co-sponsored by the Appalachian Studies Association and is presented in two parts: fiction and non-fiction. The Weatherford Award in fiction for 2004 was presented to Ron Rash for his novel Saints at the River. The Weatherford Award for non-fiction was presented to Michael Montgomery for Dictionary of Smoky Mountain English, www.berea.edu/appalachiancenter/weatherfordaward.asp According to Publishers Weekly, March 28, 2005, Barbara Kingsolver has signed a contract with HarperCollins to write a novel, Noies to a Future Historian, and a book about eating home-grown food, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year ofFood Life. Both titles are tentative. Silas House has accepted a position as Assistant Professor of English and Writer-in-Residence at Lincoln Memorial University. www.middlesborodailynews.com/articles/2005/07/16/news/380house.txt Students at Virginia Tech University in Blacksburg, VA, have founded Active Voices, active.voices@vt.edu ...