Participation Type
Panel
Session Title
Kiss My Grits
Session Abstract or Summary
This panel of women writers aims to further explore ideas about badass women via Appalachian Literature. We consider the badass to be the women who inspired us and the women we represent in our work. As writers and editors, the panelists will read a short selection of original work and discuss the way women are represented in contemporary Appalachian literature, particularly the unseen women who break the gender expectation in the region.
Presentation #1 Title
Kiss My Grits
Presentation #1 Abstract or Summary
This panel of women writers aims to further explore ideas about badass women via Appalachian Literature. We consider the badass to be the women who inspired us and the women we represent in our work. As writers and editors, the panelists will read a short selection of original work and discuss the way women are represented in contemporary Appalachian literature, particularly the unseen women who break the gender expectation in the region.
At-A-Glance Bio- Presenter #1
Savannah Sipple is a writer from eastern Kentucky. Her poems have recently been published in Appalachian Heritage, The Pikeville Review, Southern Indiana Review, and Deep South Magazine. Her prose has been published in Quaint magazine, the anthology Appalachia Now: Short Stories of Contemporary Appalachia and in Still: The Journal. She is also a writer and co-creator at Structure and Style.
At-A-Glance Bio- Presenter #2
Karen Salyer McElmurray’s Surrendered Child: A Birth Mother’s Journey, was an AWP Award Winner for Creative Nonfiction. Her novels are The Motel of the Stars, Editor’s Pick by Oxford American, and Strange Birds in the Tree of Heaven, winner of the Chaffin Award for Appalachian Writing. Other stories and essays have appeared in Iron Horse, Kenyon Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, and Riverteeth, and in the anthologies An Angle of Vision; To Tell the Truth; Fearless Confessions; Listen Here; Dirt; Family Trouble; and Red Holler. Her writing has been supported by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the North Carolina Arts Council, and the Kentucky Foundation for Women. Most recently, her essay, “Strange Tongues,” was the recipient of the Annie Dillard Award from The Bellingham Review.
At-A-Glance Bio- Presenter #3
Amanda Jo Runyon is a mother, writer, and instructor in Pike County, Kentucky. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in journals such as The Louisville Review, Still: The Journal, Pine Mountain Sand and Gravel, and Kudzu as well as Seeking Its Own Level, volume 4 of the Motif Anthology. She is co-editor of the literary journal The Pikeville Review.
Kiss My Grits
This panel of women writers aims to further explore ideas about badass women via Appalachian Literature. We consider the badass to be the women who inspired us and the women we represent in our work. As writers and editors, the panelists will read a short selection of original work and discuss the way women are represented in contemporary Appalachian literature, particularly the unseen women who break the gender expectation in the region.
