Robert Goolrick, who grew up in Lexington, Virginia, won the Library of Virginia Literary Award in Fiction for the outstanding work of fiction by a Virginia author at their Award Ceremony in October 2016. His novel, The Fall of Princes, is set in New York where he has lived since he left Virginia.
November 2016 - News of the Appalachian Literary Scene
Crystal Wilkinson has won the 10th Annual Ernest J. Gaines Award, one of the most prestigious honors a rising African American fiction writer can earn, for her first novel, Birds of Opulence. The award will be presented, along with a check for $10,000, in January at the Manship Theatre in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Wilkinson grew up in Casey County, Kentucky, and currently teaches at Berea College in Madison County, Kentucky. She and her partner, Ron Davis, own and manage Wild Fig Books & Coffee in Lexington, Kentucky.
Robert Goolrick, who grew up in Lexington, Virginia, won the Library of Virginia Literary Award in Fiction for the outstanding work of fiction by a Virginia author at their Award Ceremony in October 2016. His novel, The Fall of Princes, is set in New York where he has lived since he left Virginia.
Robert Goolrick, who grew up in Lexington, Virginia, won the Library of Virginia Literary Award in Fiction for the outstanding work of fiction by a Virginia author at their Award Ceremony in October 2016. His novel, The Fall of Princes, is set in New York where he has lived since he left Virginia.