Events / Readings / Reviews / Articles
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2022
Special Guest Speaker, Mildred Haun Literary Conference, Walters State Community College, Saturday, Feb 5th, 2:30-3:15
Netflix, Swap Shop, Season 2, premiere, Feb 16th, trailer here
Appalachian Studies Association Conference, March 17-20, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, reading
Attending Tennessee Mountain Writers Association Conference, April 7-9, Oak Ridge, TN
Attending ETSU Spring Literary Festival, April 12-13, Johnson City, TN
Reading, w/ Hilda Downer and Ann Shurgin, Dos Gatos Cafe, April 27th, Johnson City, TN, 7pm
Downtown Yoga Festival, Saturday, June 5th, vending as K&L Relics
Attending Mountain Heritage Literary Festival, June 10 - 11, Lincoln Memorial University, Harrogate, TN
Authors' Roundtable, Taylor Books, FestivALL Event, Charleston, WV, June 19th, 3-5pm (reading fiction on panel)
Guest evening reader, attendee, West Virginia Wesleyan LR-MFA program, June 30-July 10, Buchannon, WV
(Tentative) Hindman Writers Workshop, July 24-29, Hindman, KY
Reviews and Coverage of Labor Days, Labor Nights: More Stories
US Review of Books
Bristol Herald Courier article
Mountain Press article
Read Appalachia Review
2021
Three Emerging Writers, ETSU, Zoom Event, Wed, March 3rd, Event ID 934 9128 3198, Reading along with Shuly Cawood and Ciona Rouse
Reading / Signing - Cravings Cafe, Johnson City, TN, First Friday, May 7th, 7PM (In-person)
Virtual Author Talk - Kingsport Public Library, Thurs, June 10th - 7pm
On-line reading, poem, "James Still Divines Tomorrow," June 24th, 2021
Reading / Signing - Appalachian Book Store - Norton, VA, Saturday, Aug 7th - Noon (In-person) (Postponed due to Covid)
Writers Assoc of Northern Appalachia, WANA Live, Reading, Sept 23rd
Reviews of Working it Off in Labor County: Stories
Southern Review of Books review and Feb in Review
Still: The Journal
West Virginia Independent Observer
Bristol Herald Courier
Publishers Weekly
Chapter 16
Literary Hub collection of reviews
Cowboy Jamboree review
Press Releases & Coverage
for Working it Off in Labor County: Stories
The Loafer
Middlesboro News
Knoxville Daily Sun
Interviews
Young Ravens Literary Review interview
Heartwood Literary Magazine interview
Magnolia Review interview
Rappahannock Review interview
Jocelyn Mathewes interview
Mountain Mysteries: The Mystic Traditions of Appalachia (2007)
Bristol Herald Courier article
Events / Readings
2020
Fiction Workshop Leader, 11th Annual Mildred Haun Conference, Walter State Community College, Morristown, TN, Friday, February 7th.
Reading/Workshop, Poetry Society of Tennessee, NE Chapter,
Saturday, March 28th, 2 PM, Grandview Christian Church, Johnson City, Tennessee (Postponed)
Guest Reader in Poetry, Wordstream: Weekly Writers Voice, WDVX, Podcast,
Knoxville, TN, April 3rd, 12-1 PM. (Postponed)
2019
Poetry Reading, Willow Tree Coffeehouse and Music Room, Johnson City, TN,
Thursday, February 7th, 7 PM.
Art Show, Dos Gatos Cafe, Month of March, Johnson City, TN.
2018
Panel, New Poetry, Mountain Heritage Literary Festival, Lincoln Memorial
University, Friday, June 15th, 2:45 PM, Avery Hall, 213
Art Opening, First Friday Event, Matrix Minerals, May 4th, Johnson City, TN
Instacrafty Booth, Art Sales, May 20th, Covered Pavilion, Downtown
Johnson City, TN, Noon - 6PM
2017
Voices Anthology Reading / Hindman, Ky / Aug 25th
Artist of the Month, Sept 2017 / First Friday Reception
Sept 1st, 6-8, The Local Company, Johnson City, TN
Class Presentation / Alderson-Broaddus College, WV
Sept 6th, 1 PM
Wordstock Poetry Reading, Phillipi, WV, 6PM, Sept 6th
Night of Earth Poetry Reading / Samadhi Healing Center /
Sept 30th / 6:30 PM