News of the Appalachian Literary Arts

News of the Appalachian Literary Arts For updates and expanded listings, please see our website at: www.berea.edu/ApCenter/AppHeritage.html Silas House has been selected to receive the 2003 James Still Award for Writing of the Appalachian South at the Fellowship of Southern Writers conference April 24, in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The Emory and Henry College Annual Literary Festival has selected Ron Rash to be the next featured author. The festival is scheduled for October 23-24. The Last Girls by Lee Smith was chosen as the Good Morning America "Read This!" Book club pick for January, 2003. The 26th Annual Appalachian Studies Conference will feature presentations on Harriette Simpson Arnow, Marilou Awiakta, Patricia Johnson, George Ella Lyon, Jeff Daniel Marion, Albert Stewart, James Still and Frank X. Walker. It will also feature poetry readings by fifteen writers from the Southern Appalachian Writers Cooperative as well as Richard Hague and Edgar H. Thompson. The nominees for the 2002 Weatherford Award presented by Berea College and The Appalachian Studies Association are: Mary K. Anglin—Women, Power, and Dissent in the Hills of Carolina, Robert Armstead as told to S.L. Gardner—Black Dust, Margaret Bender—Signs ofCherokee Culture, Chris Bolgiano—Living in theAppalachian Forest, Jim Clark, editor—Fable in the Blood, Lenore McComas Coberly—The Handywoman Stories, Tina Collins—The Soup Bean War, Laura DeNooyer-Moore—All That is Hidden, David C. Duke—Writers and Miners, Paula Hathaway Anderson-Green—A Hot-Bed of Musicians, Lila Hopkins—Weave Me a Song, Benita J. Howell—Culture, Environment, and Conservation in the Appalachian South, Bill C. Malone— Don't Get Above Your Raisin', Jeff Daniel Marion—Ebbing & Flowing Springs, Felicia Mitchell—Her Words, Linda Hager Pack—A is for Appalachia!, Jess Stoddart—Challenge and Change in Appalachia: The Story of Hindman Settlement School, John Alexander Williams— Appalachia, Isabel Zuber—Salt. ...