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Meredith Sue Willis and Nancy L. Abrams are among the speakers at the West Virginia Book Festival to be held on Friday, October 26th and Saturday the 27th at the Charleston Civic Center. Rick Bragg, Karida L. Brown, Charles Frazier, Robert Gipe, Jesse Graves, Silas House, Marilyn Kallet, Chris Offutt, Jamie Quatro, Lee Smith, Wendy Welch, and Charles Dodd White are among the authors who will be featured at the Southern Festival of Books to be held  in Nashville from Friday, October 12 through Sunday October 14. The September 17th issue of TIME magazine featured former Roanoke Times reporter, Beth...

Appalachia returns to the best-seller lists!  August’s last New York Times best-seller lists had Tailspin by Sandra Brown, set in North Georgia, as the #3 fiction hardback and Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America by Beth Macy, which concerns Southwest Virginia, as the #7 non-fiction hardback. Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America by Roanoke’s Beth Macy was on Amazon’s Best Books of August 2018 list and Publishers Weekly’s list of Fall 2018 top ten forthcoming books in the Politics and Current Events category. The Birds of Opulence by Crystal Wilkinson was named...

The Last Ballad by Wiley Cash made the American Booksellers Association’s June 2018 Indie Next List “Now in Paperback” The Best Cook in the World by Rick Bragg made the American Bookseller’s Association’s May 2018 Indie Next List. Country Dark by Chris Offutt made the American Bookseller’s Association April 2018 Indie Next List

Ed Cabbell died on May 13, 2018, at the age of 71 in Rome, Georgia, where he had been living for several years. Best known as the co-author of Blacks in Appalachia with Dr. Bill Turner, Ed is widely viewed as the first and most knowledgeable proponent of Black Appalachian life. He created and edited the periodical Black Diamonds as well as special Black Appalachian issues of other magazines. He founded the John Henry Festival and graced other musical venues with his renditions of traditional Black Appalachian songs. Ed was born and raised in Southern West Virginia and studied at...