Southern Appalachian Writers Cooperative 2012 EventsJune 2012
Appalshop’s Seedtime on the Cumberland Festival is June 7-9, 2012. Join us for the SAWC Literary Reading at Seedtime, Saturday, June 9, at 12 noon Live on WMMT-FM, Jim Webb emcees SAWC's annual Seedtime reading broadcast live on the radio and (thanks to the internet) heard around the world. Scheduled to appear: Gurney Norman, Richard Hague, Pauletta Hansel, Scott Goebel, Misty Skaggs, Dale Marie Prenatt, Frankie Finley, Dana Wildsmith, and Minnie Moore (as time allows). The reading will take place in the conference room at Appalshop, 91 Madison Avenue, Whitesburg, KY. If you cannot join us in person, tune in via the internet (www.appalshop.org). 6:00 pm (time subject to a tweak) Elmo's Haven Ribbon Cutting, Feast, Cookout, and Swarp Following the SAWC reading on Saturday, June 9, we’ll trek up the mountain to Wiley’s Last Resort (4.7 miles up US 119 South from Route 15), cut the ribbon on Elmo's Haven-- the Artists' Cabin at the End of the Whirled, and share a feast. The cabin is a retreat for writers, artists, and activists of all kinds. We'll have a cookout (bring a dish to share if you're not coming too far) followed by a no-holds-barred poetry reading and and genuine Letcher County Swarp. Much work needs done to open by June. Last Call for donations of your time, talents, and treasure-- they are welcome and greatly needed. To reserve the cabin or to help the cause, please contact Scott Goebel at 859-468-5995 or badbranch3@gmail.com. October 2012 The Southern Appalachian Writers Cooperative’s Annual Fall Gathering is October 19-21, 2012 at Highlander Center.We will gather in a relaxed, informal, and supportive atmosphere. Much of the time is spent in Highlander’s main gathering space, a circular room rimmed with large wooden rocking chairs sharing and discussing our written work. We encourage you bring your musical instruments and join in the fun and fellowship. As well, writers are encouraged to bring their books, chapbooks, CDs, DVDs and broadsides for sale or swap at the media table. We share meals, have free time to write, explore the woods, catch up with old friends and nurture new ones. On Saturday evening we swarp and enjoy the annual Delbert Awards Ceremony, notoriously emceed by Jim Webb. Sunday morning we take care of business, making plans for readings, gatherings and publications for the coming year. For more information, contact Coordinator David Wayne Hampton at hillbillyland2@yahoo.com. SAWC is on Facebook! Folks should check out our Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Southern-Appalachian-Writers-Cooperative/157245575677?v=info) for updates.
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Pine Mountain Sand &Gravel Issue 15, The Mountains Have Come Closer, is now available.
In 1980, Jim Wayne Miller’s “The Mountains Have Come Closer,” gave voice to one of Appalachian poetry’s lasting personas, “The Brier,” who pondered and preached and opined, much as Jim himself did, on the tension inherent in being of and from Appalachia in the late twentieth century.
In 2001 we marked the 15th anniversary of Jim Wayne’s passing. We invited Appalachian writers to ponder and preach and offer their literary opinion on the ways in which the mountains have come closer, even as, perhaps, we have moved farther, or further, away. We weren't asking for new Brier poems, necessarily, or for pieces written in memoriam, though we got a few dandy ones we just had to publish. Published in cooperation with Wind Publications, Mountain Sand &Gravel Issue 15, The Mountains Have Come Closer is available for $12 per copy (plus postage) by contacting pmsg.journal@gmail.com and on Amazon. For updates and events visit https://www.facebook.com/pmsg.journal Co-edited by Pauletta Hansel and Michael Henson, contributors are: Jennifer Barton, Jim Clark, Hilda Downer, Kate Fadick, Karen George, Susan Glassmeyer, Scott Goebel, Chris Green, Jonathan Greene, David Hampton, Richard Hague, Pauletta Hansel, Matthew Haughton, Michael Henson, Jane Hicks, Jim Hinsdale, Randall Horton, Charlie Hughes, Hope Johnson, Kate Larken, Brenda Ledford, Denton Loving, David T. Manning, John C. Mannone, Jay McCoy, Thomas Keats McKnight, Jim Minick, Cara Ellen Modisett, Valerie Nieman, Molly Odell, Jeremy Paden, Eddy Pendarvis, Rhonda Pettit, Dale Marie Prenatt, Chrissie Anderson Peters, Rita Quillen, John Ray, Billy Ray Sanders, Roberta Schultz, Misty Marie Rae Skaggs, Barbara Smith, Katherine Soniat, H.S Sowards, Sherry Stanforth, Elizabeth Swann, Dominique Traverse, Jim Webb, Dana Wildsmith and Marianne Worthington. Call for Submissions,
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