The July Indie Next List – from the American Booksellers Association – includes:
Stay and Fight by Madeline Ffitch
Under Currents by Nora Roberts
The Library of Virginia nominates three people for three Literary Awards each year. Here are the nominees with strong personal and/or subject connections to Appalachia:
FICTION:
James A. McLaughlin – Bearskin
Tim Poland – Yellow Stonefly
NON- FICTION:
Catherine Kerrison – Jefferson’s Daughters: Three Sisters, White and Black in a Young America
Beth Macy – Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America
POETRY:
Michael Chitwood – Search and Rescue
Erika Meitner – Holy Moly Carry Me
Kim Michele Richardson is happy to announce that she can now share the full version and lyrics of Ruby Friedman Orchestra's song "Book Woman of Troublesome Creek". Words and music by Ruby Friedman Guitar, Violin, Banjo : Ben Landsverk – inspired by the book she published by the same name.
Crystal Wilkinson is a finalist for the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature. http://www.longwood.edu/english/dos-passos-prize/?fbclid=IwAR0Vu80T_4To0lFybYU2WlE15VwCEoMNTkHodKVlGSr4HoL-BFMQk3FZ5FU