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2005 Appalachian Writers Conference
Registration is open for the 2005 Appalachian Writers Conference, held this year at King College in Bristol, Tennessee, July 8 - 10. Click the link to see the Call for Papers and the various contests. Silas House will be the keynote speaker.
Being a Bluegrass girl by birth and marriage, I haven’t lived in Appalachia as defined by the Appalachian Regional Commission. Nevertheless, I attended this conference last year when it was held at Cumberland College. I can recommend it as very well-organized and energetic, with much to offer in the way of plenary sessions, workshops, readings, publisher’s tables, and good networking. I met some poets whose work I hadn’t known, learned about some regional publishers, and was generally impressed with the enthusiasm, intelligence, and talent of Appalachian writers.
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