Monday, December 14, 2009

Which Writers Have Writing in the Forthcoming Anthology ECHOES ACROSS THE BLUE RIDGE?

Hello Fellow NCWN West Members and Friends. I have been working as the editor on Netwest’s forthcoming anthology for about one year now, with the work arriving in my mailbox from December 1, 2008 to February 28, 2009. Getting a book published is a long process. Sometimes things move along like clockwork, but time stalled due to circumstances beyond our control. Still, I am happy to announce we are making progress and seeing our way clear to publish the anthology, titled Echoes Across the Blue Ridge: Stories, Essays and Poems by Writers Living in and Inspired by the Southern Appalachian Mountains. In fact, we have completed the proofreading process. The galley copy is being made at this time. We plan for publication in the new year.


An Introduction to Echoes Across the Blue Ridge has been written for us by Robert Morgan.

Other North Carolina authors have endorsed the collection including Lee Smith and more comments are forthcoming.


These authors, who live within the Netwest area, were invited to contribute their work and they did so with generosity: Our Program Coordinator Kathryn Stripling Byer, Thomas Rain Crowe, Steven Harvey and Bettie M. Sellers. The anthology is dedicated to the memory of our Appalachian ballad poet Byron Herbert Reece.


Check the list below of other contributors who have work forthcoming in Echoes Across the Blue Ridge:


Ellen Andrews

Richard Argo

Glenda Barrett

Glenda Beall

Jo Carolyn Beebe

Janet Benway

Joan Thiel Blessing

Rachel T. Bronnum

John T. Campbell

Gary Carden

Nancy Sales Cash

James M. Cox

Paul Donovan

Robert Edward Fahey

Jayne Jaudon Ferrer

Debora Kinsland Foerst

Joyce Foster

Karen Gilfillan

Gerri Wolfe Grady

Lana Hendershott

Eugene Hirsch

Sam Hoffer

Karen Paul Holmes

Tom Hooker

Kitty Inman

Carl Iobst

George Ivey

Mary Michelle Brodine Keller

Eileen Lampe

Blanche Ledford

Brenda Kay Ledford

Susan Lefler

StarShield Lortie

John Malone

Gail Maye

Marshall McClung

Jennifer McGaha

Mary Lou McKillip

Dick Michener

Maren O. Mitchell

Janice Townley Moore

Clarence Lee Newton

Arnie Nielson

Nancy Purcell

Betty Jameron Reed

William V. Reynolds

Estelle Rice

Mary Ricketson

Judy Roney

Rosemary Royston

Peg Russell

Linda M. Smith

Susan Snowden

Dorothea Spiegel

Wendy Richard Tanner

Carole Richard Thompson

Shirley Uphouse

J.C. Walkup

Cecily Hamlin Wells

Eleanor Lambert Wilson

Charlotte Wolf

Jane J. Young


Congratulations to Philip Sampson of Young Harris, Georgia

whose photograph was chosen for the cover.


Congratulations to Katja Holmes for her cover and book design

and for formatting the galley manuscript .


MORE NEWS WILL COME . STAY POSTED,



3 comments:

  1. Congratulations to all these writers and poets! I am proud that my essay will be included and I know this will be a fine book. Many thanks to Robert Morgan for his introduction, and to all who shared work for NCWN West's second anthology by writers in western North Carolina.

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  2. Thank you, Nancy, for all your hard work. I look forward to the book being published in 2010. Congratulations to all the writers included in this anthology. I'm very grateful my mother (Blanche L. Ledford) and I were accepted in this book.

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  3. Nancy, Malaprop's is interested in a spring reading for Echoes, so I'll be in touch about that! K.

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