Entertainment Weekly’s Most Anticipated Books of 2019 includes
Sugar Run by Mesha Maren
BuzzFeedNews – 66 Books Coming in 2019 That You’ll Want to Keep On Your Radar includes
Sugar Run by Mesha Maren
Literary Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2019 – January - includes
Sugar Run by Mesha Maren
Southern Living’s Best New Books Coming Out Winter 2019 (world-wide) includes
Sugar Run by Mesha Maren
BookRiot’s 55 Amazing New Books You Need to Read this Winter includes
Sugar Run by Mesha Maren
Autostraddle chose SugarRun by Mesha Maren to represent West Virginia in its map of Queer Books Across America
Amazon’s Best of the Month – January, 2019 - includes
Sounds Like Titanic: A Memoir by Jessica Chiccahitto Hindman
Amazon Editor’s picks for the best books of 2018: Top 20 includes
Dopesick by Beth Macy
Southern Living’s Best Southern Books of the Year 2019 include:
Bearskin by James A. McLaughlin
Fire Sermon by Jamie Quatro
The Line that Held Us by David Joy
Mac Wiseman died of kidney failure in Nashville on February 24th at the age of 93. He is best known as a musician, but is also the author of an autobiography, Mac Wiseman: All My Memoires Fit for Print. In it’s obituary, The New York Times called Wiseman, “the bluegrass balladeer and guitar player known as “the Voice with a Heart.” He was a founding member of the Foggy Mountain Boys and Bill Monroe’s Blue Grass Boys. He was also a crossover musical success and a music producer and entrepreneur. He was born in Crimora, Virginia, in the Shenandoah Valley and studied in Dayton, Virginia. He began his career in Harrisonburg, Virginia, and Knoxville, Tennessee. He met Lester Flatt in Bristol, and hosted an annual bluegrass festival in Renfro Valley, Kentucky.
Crystal Wilkinson has been chosen as the next Appalachian Heritage Festival Writer in Residence next September at Shepherd University in Shepherdstown, West Virginia. She will also judge the finalists in this year’s West Virginia fiction competition, open to all West Virginia residents and students with a deadline of May 1. The winning stories will appear in Volume XII of the Anthology of Appalachian Writers featuring Crystal Wilkinson. These programs are sponsored by the Shepherd University Center for Appalachian Studies and Communities led by Dr. Sylvia Bailey Shurbutt. https://www.shepherd.edu/news/affrilachian-writer-crystal-wilkinson-set-to-select-winners-of-the-w-va-fiction-competition/
Michael Knight, who lives in Knoxville and teaches at the University of Tennessee has a new novel forthcoming in April, At Briarwood School for Girls, set in the outer suburbs of Washington, D.C. It has been named one of Southern Living’s Best New Books Coming Out Spring 2019.