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In the latest installment of our minisode series, Poetry Corner, Kendra Winchester is joined by Amy M. Alvarez.
Books Mentioned
Makeshift Altar by Amy M. AlvarezBlue on a Blue Palette by Lynne ThompsonBecoming AppalAsian by Lisa KwongIncendiary Art by Patricia SmithMothman Apologia Volume 116 by Robert Wood LynnGuest Info
Amy M. Alvarez’s work has appeared in Ploughshares, The Missouri Review, swamp pink (Crazyhorse), and The Cincinnati Review, among others. She has been awarded fellowships from CantoMundo, VONA, Macondo, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Furious Flower Poetry Center. Alvarez is coeditor of Essential Voices: A COVID-19 Anthology and teaches writing and literature at West Virginia University. In 2022, she was inducted as an Affrilachian Poet. Learn more at amymalvarez.com.X / Twitter | Website
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In today’s episode of the podcast, Kendra Winchester talks to authors Natalie Naudus and Jonathan Corcoran.
Books Mentioned
Gay the Pray Away by Natalie NaudusNo Son of Mine by Jonathan CorcoranThe Prettiest Star by Carter SickelsAnother Appalachia by Neema AvashiaShae by Mesha MarenNight Watch by Jayne Anne PhillipsBlack Tickets by Jayne Anne PhillipsFierce Attachments: A Memoir by Vivian GornickBastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy AllisonScissors, Paper, Rock by Fenton JohnsonGuest Info
Natalie Naudus: Website | TikTok | Instagram | X
Jonathan Corcoran: Website | X | Instagram
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In the latest installment of our minisode series, Poetry Corner, Kendra Winchester is joined by Dorian Hairston.
Books Mentioned
Pretend the Ball Is Named Jim Crow: The Story of Josh Gibson by Dorian HairstonLove Child's Hotbed of Occasional Poetry: Poems & Artifacts by Nikki FinneyPraisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts by Crystal WilkinsonThe Big Smoke by Adrian MatejkaLeadbelly by Tyehimba JessIsaac Murphy: I Dedicate This Ride by Frank X WalkerGUEST INFO
Dorian Hairston: X / Twitter | Website
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In today's episode of the podcast, Kendra Winchester talks to photographers Raymond Thompson Jr and Julie Rae Powers.
Books Mentioned
Buy Deep RutsAppalachian Ghost by Raymond Thompson JrThe Book of the Dead by Muriel RukeyserThe Hawk’s Nest Incident: America's Worst Industrial Disaster by Martin CherniackThe Hawk’s Nest Tunnel: An Unabridged History by Patricia SpanglerElegy by Dawoud BeyThe Afronauts by Cristina De MiddelTest of Faith: Signs, Serpents, Salvation by Lauren PondGuest Info
Raymond Thompson Jr. Website | Instagram
Julie Rae Powers Website | Instagram
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In this special live recording of Read Appalachia, host Kendra Winchester talks to Ron Rash and Ann Pancake. A special thanks to Jeremy B. Jones and Western Carolina University for hosting us at the 22nd Spring Literary Festival.
Books Mentioned
Above the Waterfall by Ron RashThe Risen by Ron RashStrange As This Weather Has Been by Ann PancakeThe Stories of Breece d'j Pancake by Breece d’j PancakeBlack Ticket: Stories by Jane Anne PhillipsClearing in the Sky & Other Stories by Jesse StuartThe Knockout Artist by Harry CrewsI Am One of You Forever by Fred ChappellGUEST INFO
Ron Rash: Website
Ann Pancake: Website
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In this special edition of Poetry Corner, host Kendra Winchester is joined in conversation with poets Willie Edward Taylor Carver Jr., Rahul Mehta, and Doug Van Gundy. A special thanks to the librarians at Western Carolina University for helping arrange this recording.
Books Mentioned
Gay Poems for Read States by Willie Edward Taylor Carver Jr.Feeding Ghosts by Rahul MehtaA Life Above Water by Doug Van GundyGuest Info
Doug Van GundyTwitter / X | Instagram
Rahul Mehta
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Willie Edward Taylor Carver Jr.
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In the latest installment of our minisode series, Poetry Corner, Kendra Winchester is joined by Ohio Poet Laureate Kari Gunter-Seymour.
Books Mentioned
Dirt Songs by Kari Gunter-SeymourAlone in the House of My Heart: Poems by Kari Gunter-SeymourWomen Speak Volume 9 edited by Kari Gunter-SeymourThings Mentioned
Women of Appalachia Project
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Kari Gunter-Seymour
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Host Kendra Winchester talks to Neema Avashia and Sarah Lemon about their experience carving out the time to write.
Things Mentioned
Lemon’s Substack, The Devil’s CutBooks Mentioned
GUESTS
Neema Avashia
Website | Instagram | Twitter / X
Sarah Nicole Lemon
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In the latest installment of our minisode series, Poetry Corner, Kendra Winchester is joined by special guest upfromsumdirt.
Books Mentioned
The Second Stop Is Jupiter by upfromsumdirtMumbo Jumbo by Ishmael ReedQuilting: Poems 1987-1990 by Lucille CliftonLet the Dead In by Saida Agostiniupfromsumdirt, Ron Davis, is an autodidactic poet and award-winning visual artist based in Lexington, Kentucky. He is the author of two previous poetry collections, Deifying a Total Darkness and To Emit Teal, and is currently storyboarding a graphic novel based on his poetry. He has also published works in anthologies and periodicals including The Future of Black: Afrofuturism, Black Comics, and Superhero Poetry; Anthology of Appalachian Writers; Hayden's Ferry Review; and more. He received the Kentucky Al Smith Award in Art in 2010 and the Southeastern Libraries Association Award for Excellence in Original Artwork in 2022. His artwork is featured in the NAACP Image Award-winning poetry collection, Perfect Black by Crystal Wilkinson and A is for Affrilachia by Frank X Walker. He was inducted as a member into the Affrilachian Poets in 2022.
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In a special episode of the podcast, Kendra interviews Julie Rae Powers about their new photography book, Deep Ruts.
Julie Rae Powers received their MFA in Photography from The Ohio State University and their BFA in Photography from James Madison University. Their photographic and written work has focused on family history, coal, Appalachia, the queer “female” gaze, the butch body, and queer chosen families. Their work is collected by the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at the University of Michigan, have been awarded the Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award in 2016 and 2020 and was selected in Critical Mass’ Top 200 for 2021. Julie Rae is a part of Y’all Means All: Queering Appalachian Voices edited by Z. Zane McNeil. Soft Lightning Studio, an inclusive photo book publisher created and ran by Julie Rae published The Home We Know by Ben Willis which was featured in the Washington Post and is collected by the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Watson Library. Additionally, they are the author and editor of a forthcoming collection of Queer Appalachian photographers. For their day job they work as an Instructional Designer.Website | Instagram
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To kick off Season 2 of Read Appalachia, host Kendra Winchester talks to special guests Erica Abrams Locklear and Crystal Wilkinson.
You can find the full show notes here.Things Mentioned
Chefs MentionedJohn Fleer, RhubarbWilliam Dissen, The MarketplaceAshleigh Shanti, Good Hot FishSean Brock, AudreyTravis Milton, HickoryBooks Mentioned
GUEST INFO
Erica Abrams Locklear
Crystal Wilkinson
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In Read Appalachia’s season finale, Kendra Winchester is joined by Mandi Fugate Sheffel, the owner of the bookstore Read Spotted Newt, which is located in Hazard, Kentucky.
Things Mentioned
Read Spotted Newt WebsiteSupport the Read Spotted Newt on Bookshop.orgStorygraphBooks Mentioned
All affiliate links for this episode go to support the Read Spotted Newt.
Guest InfoMandi Fugate Sheffel was born and raised in Red Fox, Ky. A graduate of Eastern Kentucky University, she found her passion for writing and storytelling at the Appalachian Writers Workshop at the Hindman Settlement School. Her personal essays and opinion pieces can be found in Still: The Journal, Lexington-Herald Leader, and the Courier Journal. Her forthcoming personal essay collection, The Nature of Pain, will be released in 2025 through The University Press of Kentucky. She currently owns and operates, Read Spotted Newt, an independent bookstore in the coalfields of eastern Kentucky.
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This month’s episode is about short stories! Host Kendra Winchester talks to special guests Halle Hill and George Singleton.
Things Mentioned
Short Story Advent CalendarHub City PressBooks Mentioned
Guest Info
Halle Hill is from East Tennessee and lives in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. A graduate of Maryville College and the M.F.A. Writing program at Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), she is the winner of the 2021 Crystal Wilkinson Creative Writing Prize and was a finalist for the 2021 ASME Award for Fiction. Her short stories have been published in Joyland, New Limestone Review, Southwest Review, and Oxford American, where she won the 2020 Debut Fiction Prize. Good Women is her first book.X | Instagram | Website
George Singleton has published ten collections of stories, two novels, a book of writing advice, and a collection of essays. His stories have appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, Harper’s, Story, One Story, Playboy, the Georgia Review, Zoetrope, Subtropics, and elsewhere. His personal essays have appeared in Garden and Gun, Bark, Best American Food Writing, Oxford American, and elsewhere He’s received a Pushcart, and a Guggenheim fellowship. A member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers, he lives in South Carolina.
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Host Kendra Winchester is joined by Nathan Shuherk (@schizophrenicreads) to chat about regional American literature and the commonalities between the Midwest and Appalachia.
Things Mentioned
Schizophrenic Reads: The PodcastBooks Mentioned
Guest InfoNathan Shuherk (@schizophrenicreads) is a book influencer that focuses on nonfiction books. He lives in Indianapolis with his partner, 3 cats, and too many books.
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In the latest installment of our minisode series, Poetry Corner, Kendra Winchester is joined by special guest Denton Loving.
Books Mentioned
Tamp by Denton LovingValediction: Poems and Prose by Linda ParsonsRing of Earth by William WoolfittOutside the Frame by Catherine Pritchard Childress The Act of Contrition & Other Stories by Joseph BathantiAnd Dogs to Chase Them by Ray TrotterAsides: Occasional Essays by George Singleton
Guest Info
Denton Loving: Website | X
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For September’s theme, we’re discussing rural literature for young people. Host Kendra Winchester is joined by special guests Dr. Chea Parton and Nora Shalaway Carpenter.
Things Mentioned
Literacy In PlaceReading Rural YAL podcastWhippoorwill Book Award for Rural YA LiteratureRead Appalachia / Literacy in Place CollaborationBooks Mentioned
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Chea Parton
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Nora Shalaway Carpenter
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In the latest installment of our minisode series, Poetry Corner, Kendra Winchester is joined by special guest Marlanda Dekine.
Books Mentioned
Thresh & Hold by Marlanda DekineMotherworld: A Devotional for the Alter-Life by Destiny HemphillRiver Hymns by Tyree DayeCardinal by Tyree DayeGossypiin by Ra Malika ImhotepRice by Nikki FinneyGuest Info
Marlanda Dekine
Twitter | Instagram | Website
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It’s Read Appalachia’s Birthday! Host Kendra Winchester is joined by special guests David Joy and Joy Priest.
You can find the complete show notes over on our website.Things Mentioned
Interview with Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle (Reading Women)Interview with Leah Hampton (Reading Women)Interview with Bernard Clay (100 Days in Appalachia)Books Mentioned
Guest Info
David JoyTwitter | Instagram
Joy Priest
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In the second installment of our minisode series, Poetry Corner, Kendra Winchester is joined by special guest Lucien Darjeun Meadows.
You can find the complete show notes over on Read Appalachia's website.BOOKS MENTIONED
In the Hands of the River by Lucien Darjeun MeadowsBecoming AppalAsian by Lisa KwongWhere you Come From Is Gone by Annie WoodfordThresh & Hold by Marlanda DekineMid/South Sonnets edited by C. T. Salazar and Casie DoddGUEST INFO
Lucien Darjeun MeadowsWebsite | Twitter | Instagram
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For Disability Pride Month, host Kendra Winchester is joined by Appodlachia co-host Callie Pruett Schwaber to discuss the importance of disabled people telling their own stories.
Things Mentioned
Kendra’s interview with Alice Wong on Reading WomenBooks Mentioned
Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an Ally by Emily LadeauBlind Man’s Bluff: A Memoir by James Tate HillWhat Doesn't Kill You: A Life with Chronic Illness - Lessons from a Body in Revolt by Tessa MillerIllness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors by Susan SontagSome Days: A Tale of Love, Ice Cream, and My Mom's Chronic Illness by Julie A. StammEl Deaf by Cece BellDisability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century edited by Alice WongGuest Info
Callie Pruett SchwaberTwitter | Instagram
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