Participation Type
Reading
Session Title
Session 7.17 Literature and Poetry
Presentation #1 Title
New Writing from Appalachia
Presentation #1 Abstract or Summary
1. Carrie Mullins will read from her first novel (forthcoming from Old Cove Press). The novel features Marie Massey, who is seventeen when she runs away from her subdivision home to live with her older boyfriend, Bobo Owens, and his rough family in Crawford County, Kentucky. Carrie Mullins lives in Mt. Vernon, Kentucky. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and has had short fiction published in Kudzu, Appalachian Heritage and Chicago Quarterly Review. 2. Susan Weinberg will read “Blue Window,” a work of creative nonfiction, set in the Blue Ridge mountains. Susan Weinberg has taught creative writing and co-directed the visiting writers series at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina, since 1994. Her fiction and creative nonfiction have appeared in more than 30 publications. Susan has been a licensed foster parent for Watauga County, NC, since 2003, and she offers life-writing workshops for foster and adoptive parents on the state and local level as a technique for self-care. 3. Robert Gipe will read from Trampoline, his first novel (forthcoming from Ohio University Press). The narrator of Trampoline, Dawn Jewell, lives in a coalfield county in eastern Kentucky, and is in high school. She’s having a rough go of it. Robert Gipe is director of the Appalachian Program at Southeast Kentucky Community & Technical College. He is producer of the Higher Ground community plays in Harlan County, Kentucky. He grew up in Kingsport, Tennessee.
At-A-Glance Bio- Presenter #1
Sandy Ballard is the editor of Appalachian Journal, founded in 1972 and published at Appalachian State University. She is co-editor of Voices from the Headwaters and Listen Here: Women Writing in Appalachia. She interested in new writers from Appalachia.
Presentation #2 Title
Reading from a novel, forthcoming from Old Cove Press, by Carrie Mullins
At-A-Glance Bio- Presenter #2
Carrie Mullins lives in Mount Vernon, Kentucky. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and has had short fiction published in Kudzu, Appalachian Heritage and Chicago Quarterly Review.
Presentation #3 Title
“Blue Window,” creative nonfiction, by Susan Weinberg
At-A-Glance Bio- Presenter #3
Susan Weinberg has taught creative writing and co-directed the visiting writers series at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina, since 1994. Her fiction and creative nonfiction have appeared in more than 30 publications.
Presentation #4 Title
Reading from Trampoline, a novel, forthcoming from Ohio University Press, by Robert Gipe
At-A-Glance Bio- Presenter #4
Robert Gipe is director of the Appalachian Program at Southeast Kentucky Community & Technical College. He is producer of the Higher Ground community plays in Harlan County, Kentucky.
New Writing from Appalachia
Drinko Library 349
1. Carrie Mullins will read from her first novel (forthcoming from Old Cove Press). The novel features Marie Massey, who is seventeen when she runs away from her subdivision home to live with her older boyfriend, Bobo Owens, and his rough family in Crawford County, Kentucky. Carrie Mullins lives in Mt. Vernon, Kentucky. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and has had short fiction published in Kudzu, Appalachian Heritage and Chicago Quarterly Review. 2. Susan Weinberg will read “Blue Window,” a work of creative nonfiction, set in the Blue Ridge mountains. Susan Weinberg has taught creative writing and co-directed the visiting writers series at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina, since 1994. Her fiction and creative nonfiction have appeared in more than 30 publications. Susan has been a licensed foster parent for Watauga County, NC, since 2003, and she offers life-writing workshops for foster and adoptive parents on the state and local level as a technique for self-care. 3. Robert Gipe will read from Trampoline, his first novel (forthcoming from Ohio University Press). The narrator of Trampoline, Dawn Jewell, lives in a coalfield county in eastern Kentucky, and is in high school. She’s having a rough go of it. Robert Gipe is director of the Appalachian Program at Southeast Kentucky Community & Technical College. He is producer of the Higher Ground community plays in Harlan County, Kentucky. He grew up in Kingsport, Tennessee.
