This event is co-sponsored by The Schaefer Center Presents series and Appalachian JournalPoet Liz Robbins' (she/her) third collection, Freaked, won the 2015 Elixir Press Annual Poetry Award, judged by Bruce Bond; her second collection, Play Button, won the 2012 Cider Press Review Book Award, judged by Patricia Smith. Her first collection is Hope, As the […]
This event is co-sponsored by The Schaefer Center Presents series and Appalachian JournalASHLEIGH BRYANT PHILLIPS is from Woodland, North Carolina. Her debut short story collection, Sleepovers, won the 2019 C. Michael Curtis Short Story Book Award. Sleepovers was called "elegant and mesmerizing" by the New Yorker and "blunt and life-affirming" by Publisher's Weekly. Stories from it appear in […]
This event is co-sponsored by The Schaefer Center Presents series and Appalachian Journal2023 Rachel Rivers-Coffey Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing, Novelist and Editor Emily Nemens is a writer, illustrator, editor, and educator. Her debut novel, The Cactus League, was published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in February 2020 and released in paperback by Picador in […]
Photo by Sam BrownThis event is co-sponsored by The Schaefer Center Presents series and Appalachian JournalNovelist Irina Zhorov was born in Uzbekistan, in the Soviet Union, and moved to Philadelphia on the eve of its dissolution. After failing to make use of a geology degree, she received an MFA from the University of Wyoming. Zhorov […]
photo by Joli LivaudaisThis event is co-sponsored by Appalachian Journal and The Schaefer Center Presents seriesPoet Nickole Brown received her MFA from the Vermont College, studied literature at Oxford University, and was the editorial assistant for the late Hunter S. Thompson. She worked at Sarabande Books for 10 years. Her first collection, Sister, a novel-in-poems, was […]
This event is co-sponsored by Appalachian Journal and The Schaefer Center Presents series Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Natasha Trethewey served two terms as the 19th Poet Laureate of the United States (2012-2014). In his citation, Librarian of Congress James Billington wrote, “Her poems dig beneath the surface of history—personal or communal, from childhood or from a […]
photo by Ross Fletcher GordonThis event is co-sponsored by Appalachian Journal and The Schaefer Center Presents series Crime novelist Scott Blackburn is an English instructor and a 2017 graduate of the Mountainview MFA program of Southern New Hampshire University. He lives in High Point, North Carolina, with his wife and two children. When he is […]
This event is co-sponsored by The Schaefer Center Presents series Juneteenth is America’s vital new holiday, commemorating the end of slavery. ANNETTE GORDON-REED, the first Black person to win the Pulitzer Prize for History and MacArthur Genius, is one of the integral voices who helped Juneteenth officially enter our national conversation. Her book about this profound day—On […]
This event is co-sponsored by Appalachian Journal and The Schaefer Center Presents series Environmental writer and 2022 Rachel Rivers-Coffey Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing Leigh Ann Henion is the New York Times bestselling author of Phenomenal: A Hesitant Adventurer's Search for Wonder in the Natural World. The book is about how she chased eclipses, migrations, and other natural […]
This event is co-sponsored by Appalachian Journal and The Schaefer Center Presents series When memoirist Neema Avashia tells people where she’s from, their response is nearly always a disbelieving: “There are Indian people in West Virginia?” A queer Asian American teacher and writer, Avashia fits few Appalachian stereotypes. But the lessons she learned in childhood […]
Photo by Rebecca Dayle AshbyThis event is co-sponsored by Appalachian Journal and The Schaefer Center Presents series Poet Savannah Sipple is the author of WWJD & Other Poems (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2019), which was included on the American Library Association's Over the Rainbow Recommended LGBTQ Reading List. It explores what it is to be a […]
A VISITING WRITERS SERIES EVENTCosponsored by The Schaefer Center Presents and Appalachian Journal Fiction Writer and Environmental Journalist Megan Bergman Monday, April 4Craft Talk: 3:30-4:30pmReading: 6-7pmTable Rock Room, 201-B Plemmons Student UnionFree More information: english.appstate.edu/node/905ABOUT MEGAN BERGMAN Megan Mayhew Bergman is the author of How Strange a Season, Almost Famous Women, and Birds of a Lesser Paradise. Her short fiction has […]
A VISITING WRITERS SERIES EVENTCosponsored by The Schaefer Center Presents and Appalachian Journal 2022 Juanita Tobin Memorial Reading"Carrying Back the Music to Its Source: Naming the Sacred Place" Thursday, March 24Craft Talk: 3:30-4:30pmReading: 6-7pmTable Rock Room, 201-B Plemmons Student UnionFree More information: english.appstate.edu/node/904ABOUT ANNIE WOODFORD Annie Woodford is the author of Bootleg (Groundhog Poetry Press, 2019), which […]
A VISITING WRITERS SERIES EVENTCosponsored by The Schaefer Center Presents and Appalachian Journal Virtual presentation of Robert Morgan's reading of his short story "Judaculla Rock," available now through May 10. More information: english.appstate.edu/node/903ABOUT ROBERT MORGAN Hendersonville native Robert Morgan is the author of 15 books of poetry, most recently Terroir and Dark Energy. He has also […]