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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...

Finalists for the 2019 Southern Book Prize include: For Fiction: The Line That Held Us by David Joy Scribe by Alyson Hagy Gods of Howl Mountain by Taylor Brown For Non-Fiction The Best Cook in the World by Rick Bragg   Publishers Weekly’s Spring 2019 adult announcements featured several books about our region. In the Cooking & Food section is Smoke, Roots, Mountain, Harvest: Recipes and Stories Inspired by My Appalachian Home by Lauren McDuffie scheduled for release in May.  The Literary Fiction section notes The Ash Family by Molly Dektar due in April and Under Currents by Nora Roberts...

GATLINBURG, Tenn. — On December 13, 2018, The Great Smoky Mountains Association has announced the launch of the first ever writer’s residency offered in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Funded by GSMA, the Steve Kemp Writer’s Residency is designed to connect writers with the Smokies in meaningful ways and to inspire some of their best work. The program is named for 30-year GSMA veteran Steve Kemp, who retired in September 2017 after directing the publication of hundreds of books, magazines, brochures and newsletters that continue to support the preservation of the national park. GSMA will accept applications for the first Steve...

Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia by Steven Stoll was one of five books short-listed for Phi Beta Kappa’s Ralph Waldo Emerson Award, but it was not selected as the final winner. The West Virginia Library Commission and the West Virginia Center for the Book have announced the One Book One West Virginia selection for 2018-19. Each year, one book written by an Appalachian author is selected for this prestigious honor, and this year's honoree is Water Street by Crystal Wilkinson. Finalists for the 2019 Southern Book Prize include The Road to Bittersweet by Donna Everhart Steal Away Home by...

This month's #1 on the November 2018 Indie Next List is Scribe by Alyson Hagy! Dopesick by Beth Macy was one of only five finalists in non-fiction for the 2018 Kirkus Prize, a national prize with a $50,000 stipend. The Last Ballad by Wiley Cash is the 2018 Winner in Literary Fiction of the Southern Book Prize. Fall 2018 Okra Picks - "The Best Southern Literature, Fresh Off the Vine" - from the Southern Independent Booksellers Association includes: Yellow Stonefly by Tim Poland Lorraine by Ketch Secor Scribe by Alyson Hagy Backyard Bears by Amy Cherrix Quiver by Julia Watts...