This is the biggest honor I've received for my writing so far. I am on Cloud Nine! ~ Ginger
Pertinent portions of the email:
2014
Writers Master Class with Homer Hickam
Thursday,
September 25, 2014, 3:00-4:30 p.m., Byrd Legislative
Center
The audience is invited to participate, as
copies of Master Class finalists’ submissions are provided, and all are asked to
share their thoughts as we undertake a conversation about good writing, both
fiction and poetry.
After each writer is introduced, s/he will come to
stage left to the podium and introduce the piece to be read ... Writers will remain on the
stage to answer questions and to respond to Homer Hickam, winner of the WV
Humanities Council’s Appalachian Heritage Writer’s Award and Shepherd
University’s 2013 Writer-in-Residence; to Dr. Sylvia Bailey Shurbutt,
Anthology of Appalachian Writers Managing Editor; to Natalie Sypolt, past
winner of the WV Fiction Competition, published fiction writer, writing
instructor, and anthology editor; or to the audience...
Again this year, at your request, we will select only 6-8 readers,
hoping that the others will submit their work to the Anthology of Appalachian
Writers, Homer Hickam Volume VII; however we want to be clear that many fine
works were submitted to the master class, making the selection process extremely
difficult, as we attempt to connect local writers with the Appalachian Heritage
Writer-in-Residence and hold a useful conversation about good writing. Thanks to
everyone who submitted...
1)
Ginger Hamilton reading The Sugar
Blues
2)
Jessica L. Hall reading All and
Nothing
3)
Jessica Salfia reading The Coal
Madonna
4)
Terry W. McNemar reading Last
Chestnut
5)
Melissa Howley reading The Worth of
Water
6)
Zach Davis reading When He Calls
You
7)
Kristin Doherty reading What Happened
to Joanie
8)
Jim Koenig reading The
Turn
