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Intro music: "Back to the Patch" by Sue Powers. You can find more of her music at https://www.devilishmerry.com/.]]>enBooksCopyright WANA LIVE!https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/be6d25a3db726b788054a39823256484.jpghttp://writersassociationofnorthernappalachia.comSat, 19 Jun 2021 06:56:30 +0000WANA LIVE!WANA LIVE!wanalivereadingseries@gmail.comWANA LIVE! is the reading series of the Writers Association of Northern Appalachia, which livestreams on YouTube and Facebook every Thursday night at 8 PM EST. New episodes of the WANA LIVE! podcast will be uploaded two weeks after their livestream...https://writersassociationofnorthernappalachia.org/.

Intro music: "Back to the Patch" by Sue Powers. You can find more of her music at https://www.devilishmerry.com/.]]>cleanepisodichttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/wana-live-reading-series-amy-clark-spain--45364655More info at http://www.amydclark.com]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/45364655Sat, 19 Jun 2021 06:56:28 +0000WANA LIVE!Amy Clark was born in the heart of the Appalachian mountains of Virginia and teaches at the University of Virginia's College at Wise. She is the 2012 recipient of the Jean Ritchie Fellowship in Appalachian Writing. Her book, TALKING APPALACHIAN...More info at http://www.amydclark.com]]>1509amy,appalachia,books,christina,clark,damian,discussion,dressick,fiction,fisanick,literature,live,non-fiction,poems,reading,series,spain,stories,wana,writingcleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/wana-live-reading-series-cat-pleska--45364653https://api.spreaker.com/episode/45364653Sat, 19 Jun 2021 06:55:33 +0000WANA LIVE!Cat Pleska, author, educator, publisher, and oral historian, holds an MFA in creative nonfiction writing. Her memoir, Riding on Comets was published by West Virginia University Press, 2015. Cat edited three anthologies and her essays have appeared in...889appalachia,books,cat,christina,damian,discussion,dressick,fiction,fisanick,literature,live,non-fiction,pleska,poems,reading,series,stories,wana,writingcleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/wana-live-reading-series-cody-mcdevitt-dan-reidmiller--45364652
Cody McDevitt is an investigative reporter based in Pittsburgh. He's written several books, including his most recent, Banished from Johnstown: Racist Backlash in Pennsylvania, which details one of the worst racial injustices in western Pennsylvania history. More than 2,000 Black and Latino people were forced from their homes after a racially charged police shooting. He is currently working on his next book about the history of the abortion rights movement.

Dan Reidmiller is a short-story writer based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. A recent graduate of Chatham University's MFA program, Dan is currently at work on his debut manuscript, tentatively titled, RIVER RATS: AND OTHER SIMERAL'S FERRY TALES. The project is a short-story cycle that intertwines the lives of a range of characters in a small, lower-class Appalachian town called Simeral's Ferry. During the day, Dan works full-time as a Content Writer and Strategist for an international software company, and in his spare time, he volunteers as a member of WANA, where he serves on the advisory board.]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/45364652Sat, 19 Jun 2021 06:54:50 +0000WANA LIVE!In honor of baseball season, WANA is featuring a double header tonight! Cody McDevitt is an investigative reporter based in Pittsburgh. He's written several books, including his most recent, Banished from Johnstown: Racist Backlash in Pennsylvania,...
Cody McDevitt is an investigative reporter based in Pittsburgh. He's written several books, including his most recent, Banished from Johnstown: Racist Backlash in Pennsylvania, which details one of the worst racial injustices in western Pennsylvania history. More than 2,000 Black and Latino people were forced from their homes after a racially charged police shooting. He is currently working on his next book about the history of the abortion rights movement.

Dan Reidmiller is a short-story writer based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. A recent graduate of Chatham University's MFA program, Dan is currently at work on his debut manuscript, tentatively titled, RIVER RATS: AND OTHER SIMERAL'S FERRY TALES. The project is a short-story cycle that intertwines the lives of a range of characters in a small, lower-class Appalachian town called Simeral's Ferry. During the day, Dan works full-time as a Content Writer and Strategist for an international software company, and in his spare time, he volunteers as a member of WANA, where he serves on the advisory board.]]>2452books,christina,cody,damian,dan,discussion,dressick,fiction,fisanick,literature,live,mcdevitt,non-fiction,poems,reading,reidmiller,series,stories,wana,writingcleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/wana-live-reading-series-liz-ahl--45364651https://api.spreaker.com/episode/45364651Sat, 19 Jun 2021 06:53:50 +0000WANA LIVE!Liz Ahl is the author of Beating the Bounds (Hobblebush Books, 2017), as well as several chapbooks of poetry, including A Thirst That’s Partly Mine, winner of the 2008 Slapering Hol Press Chapbook Prize. She lives in Holderness, New Hampshire and...1250ahl,appalachia,books,christina,damian,discussion,dressick,fiction,fisanick,literature,live,liz,non-fiction,poems,reading,series,stories,wana,writingcleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/wana-live-reading-series-patricia-thrushart--45364649https://api.spreaker.com/episode/45364649Sat, 19 Jun 2021 06:53:07 +0000WANA LIVE!Patricia Thrushart has published three books of poetry, Little Girl Against The Wall, Yin and Yang, and Sanctity: Poems from Northern Appalachia. Her work appears regularly in The Watershed Journal, a regional literary magazine of Northwestern...1458appalachia,books,christina,damian,discussion,dressick,fiction,fisanick,literature,live,non-fiction,patricia,poems,reading,series,stories,thrushart,wana,writingcleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/wana-live-reading-series-ron-donoughe--45364646
Like many painters he has held a variety of odd jobs – landscaper, gravedigger, chicken catcher, art teacher, museum installer, graphic designer, and college instructor.

He works full time now as a professional artist/painter. His work can be found in many corporate and private collections as well as the Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, The Westmoreland Museum of American Art and The University Museum at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

Ron’s interest in plein art painting led to the formation of The Plein-Air Painters of Western Pennsylvania. The group meets informally to paint Pittsburgh from April through November. In addition, his work has appeared in 12 films which were shot in the Pittsburgh region.]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/45364646Sat, 19 Jun 2021 06:52:22 +0000WANA LIVE!A native of Loretto, Pennsylvania now living in Pittsburgh, Ron Donoughe is best known for his spirited realistic landscape paintings of Western Pennsylvania. He has a B.A. in Art Education from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and has studied at...
Like many painters he has held a variety of odd jobs – landscaper, gravedigger, chicken catcher, art teacher, museum installer, graphic designer, and college instructor.

He works full time now as a professional artist/painter. His work can be found in many corporate and private collections as well as the Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, The Westmoreland Museum of American Art and The University Museum at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

Ron’s interest in plein art painting led to the formation of The Plein-Air Painters of Western Pennsylvania. The group meets informally to paint Pittsburgh from April through November. In addition, his work has appeared in 12 films which were shot in the Pittsburgh region.]]>1595appalachia,books,christina,damian,discussion,donoughe,dressick,fiction,fisanick,literature,live,non-fiction,poems,reading,ron,series,stories,wana,writingcleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/wana-live-reading-series-savannah-sipple--45364645https://api.spreaker.com/episode/45364645Sat, 19 Jun 2021 06:51:30 +0000WANA LIVE!Savannah Sipple is the author of WWJD & Other Poems (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2019), which was included on the American Library Association's Over the Rainbow Recommended LGBTQ Reading List. It explores what it is to be a queer woman in Appalachia and...1348appalachia,books,christina,damian,discussion,dressick,fiction,fisanick,literature,live,non-fiction,poems,reading,savannah,series,sipple,stories,wana,writingcleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/wana-live-reading-series-david-drayer--45364644
David Drayer is the author of the novels Strip Cuts, A Noble Story, Something Fierce, the novella, Attachment, and the autobiographical collection, Wayward Son: Travels and Reflections. Born in the small town of Rimersburg, Pennsylvania, Drayer has lived in Los Angeles, New York, and many cities in between. He holds an MFA from the University of Iowa and has worked countless jobs, including stints as an adjunct English professor, ghostwriter, actor, corporate trainer, and instructional designer. His novella, Attachment, is currently in development with Winterlight Pictures and Voyage Media and in Los Angeles.

David has a penchant for open-ended motorcycles trips, long hikes, and good food. More biographical information can be found at DavidDrayer.com]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/45364644Sat, 19 Jun 2021 06:50:41 +0000WANA LIVE!Join us at Watershed Books on Main Street in Brookville, PA for WANA LIVE!'s very first in-person reading and book signing with David Drayer. Book signing begins at 6:30 PM, which will be followed by a reading at 7:00 PM. David Drayer is the author...
David Drayer is the author of the novels Strip Cuts, A Noble Story, Something Fierce, the novella, Attachment, and the autobiographical collection, Wayward Son: Travels and Reflections. Born in the small town of Rimersburg, Pennsylvania, Drayer has lived in Los Angeles, New York, and many cities in between. He holds an MFA from the University of Iowa and has worked countless jobs, including stints as an adjunct English professor, ghostwriter, actor, corporate trainer, and instructional designer. His novella, Attachment, is currently in development with Winterlight Pictures and Voyage Media and in Los Angeles.

David has a penchant for open-ended motorcycles trips, long hikes, and good food. More biographical information can be found at DavidDrayer.com]]>955appalachia,books,christina,damian,david,discussion,drayer,dressick,fiction,fisanick,literature,live,non-fiction,poems,reading,series,stories,wana,writingcleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/wana-live-reading-series-judi-tarowsky--45364642
She discovered storytelling in 2006, and after winning first place in the inaugural Strand Theater Preservation Society Storytelling Festival Liar’s Contest in Moundsville, WV, began her study of the craft in earnest. She went on to earn a Graduate Certificate in Storytelling from the University of North Texas Library Sciences program.

Since then, Judi has performed at festivals, libraries, museums, and special events in West Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Maryland, and Wales. She also has produced and co-produced storytelling festivals at Prickett’s Fort in Fairmont, WV, and at Grand Vue Park in Moundsville, WV. She has been a regular storyteller during the summer at Wilson Lodge in Oglebay Resort, Wheeling, WV. Her original story, “The Heroes of the U.S.S. Shenandoah” was the keynote for the 90th commemoration ceremony for the crash of the U.S.S. Shenandoah airship in Belle Valley, OH.

She is a member of the West Virginia Storytelling Guild and a past president.]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/45364642Sat, 19 Jun 2021 06:49:46 +0000WANA LIVE!Judi Tarowsky was a newspaper reporter and editor for more than 25 years and wrote other people’s stories. Now, as a storyteller, she gets to tell her own. She discovered storytelling in 2006, and after winning first place in the inaugural Strand...
She discovered storytelling in 2006, and after winning first place in the inaugural Strand Theater Preservation Society Storytelling Festival Liar’s Contest in Moundsville, WV, began her study of the craft in earnest. She went on to earn a Graduate Certificate in Storytelling from the University of North Texas Library Sciences program.

Since then, Judi has performed at festivals, libraries, museums, and special events in West Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Maryland, and Wales. She also has produced and co-produced storytelling festivals at Prickett’s Fort in Fairmont, WV, and at Grand Vue Park in Moundsville, WV. She has been a regular storyteller during the summer at Wilson Lodge in Oglebay Resort, Wheeling, WV. Her original story, “The Heroes of the U.S.S. Shenandoah” was the keynote for the 90th commemoration ceremony for the crash of the U.S.S. Shenandoah airship in Belle Valley, OH.

She is a member of the West Virginia Storytelling Guild and a past president.]]>1041appalachia,books,christina,damian,discussion,dressick,fiction,fisanick,judi,literature,live,non-fiction,poems,reading,series,stories,tarowsky,wana,writingcleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/wana-live-reading-series-ed-simon--45364641
His essays have appeared in The Atlantic, The Paris Review Daily, The Washington Post, Newsweek, Poetry, McSweeney’s, Aeon, Jacobin, Salon, The New Republic and The New York Times among dozens of others.

Currently he is finishing Pandemonium, a work of illustrated nonfiction combining popular history, cultural criticism, and art history, which was recently acquired by Abrams Book and is scheduled for publication in 2021.

Originally a native of Pittsburgh, he has lived in New York City, Boston, and now Washington DC. He holds a PhD in English from Lehigh University.]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/45364641Sat, 19 Jun 2021 06:48:43 +0000WANA LIVE!Ed Simon is an Editor-at-Large for The Marginalia Review of Books, a channel of The Los Angeles Review of Books, a contributing editor for the History News Network, and a staff writer at The Millions, which the New York Times has called the...
His essays have appeared in The Atlantic, The Paris Review Daily, The Washington Post, Newsweek, Poetry, McSweeney’s, Aeon, Jacobin, Salon, The New Republic and The New York Times among dozens of others.

Currently he is finishing Pandemonium, a work of illustrated nonfiction combining popular history, cultural criticism, and art history, which was recently acquired by Abrams Book and is scheduled for publication in 2021.

Originally a native of Pittsburgh, he has lived in New York City, Boston, and now Washington DC. He holds a PhD in English from Lehigh University.]]>1644appalachia,books,christina,damian,discussion,dressick,ed,fiction,fisanick,literature,live,non-fiction,poems,reading,series,simon,stories,wana,writingcleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/wana-live-reading-series-ed-mclanahan--45364639https://api.spreaker.com/episode/45364639Sat, 19 Jun 2021 06:47:47 +0000WANA LIVE!Ed McClanahan, a native of northeastern Kentucky, is the author of The Natural Man, Famous People I Have Known, and five other books, most recently Not Even Immortality Lasts Forever (Counterpoint, 2020). He is the recipient of a Wallace Stegner...879appalachia,books,christina,damian,discussion,dressick,ed,fiction,fisanick,literature,live,mclanahan,non-fiction,poems,reading,series,stories,wana,writingcleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/wana-live-reading-series-tiffany-williams--45364638
Her debut EP, When You Go, released January 18, 2019, features five tracks, all of which were penned by the artist and are a meditation on life in the mountains—a place, as echoed in the title track, that "you can't leave […] when you go."

In addition to her keen abilities as a songwriter, Tiffany is an award-winning fiction writer (publishing as T.M. Williams). She is the recipient of the 2011 Jean Ritchie Fellowship for Appalachian Writing and the 2017 Denny C. Plattner Award for fiction. Her stories have been featured in Still: The Journal, Waxing & Waning, and Appalachian Heritage. While she is still writing songs, she is also currently at work on her first novel.]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/45364638Sat, 19 Jun 2021 06:46:51 +0000WANA LIVE!Tiffany Williams is a native of Eastern Kentucky. She is a coal miner's daughter, granddaughter, and great-granddaughter and an exciting emerging voice who crafts achingly beautiful songs about what it means, in her experience, to be from the...
Her debut EP, When You Go, released January 18, 2019, features five tracks, all of which were penned by the artist and are a meditation on life in the mountains—a place, as echoed in the title track, that "you can't leave […] when you go."

In addition to her keen abilities as a songwriter, Tiffany is an award-winning fiction writer (publishing as T.M. Williams). She is the recipient of the 2011 Jean Ritchie Fellowship for Appalachian Writing and the 2017 Denny C. Plattner Award for fiction. Her stories have been featured in Still: The Journal, Waxing & Waning, and Appalachian Heritage. While she is still writing songs, she is also currently at work on her first novel.]]>1085appalachia,books,christina,damian,discussion,dressick,fiction,fisanick,literature,live,non-fiction,poems,reading,series,stories,tiffany,wana,williams,writingcleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/wana-live-reading-series-jennifer-haigh--45364637
JENNIFER HAIGH is a novelist and short story writer. Her novel HEAT AND LIGHT won a Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and was named a Best Book of 2016 by The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal and NPR. Her previous books include FAITH, THE CONDITION, BAKER TOWERS and MRS. KIMBLE, winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction, and the short story collection NEWS FROM HEAVEN, winner of the Massachusetts Book Award and the PEN New England Award in Fiction. Her short stories have been published in Granta, The Atlantic, The Best American Short Stories and many other places. Jennifer Haigh has been awarded grants by the James Michener Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. She lives in Boston. https://www.jennifer-haigh.com/]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/45364637Sat, 19 Jun 2021 06:45:52 +0000WANA LIVE!Join us as we celebrate WANA LIVE!'s first birthday! Our writer this week is the incomparable Jennifer Haigh AND we will be announcing an exciting new WANA LIVE! initiative as a thank you for being here with us this past year. JENNIFER HAIGH is a...
JENNIFER HAIGH is a novelist and short story writer. Her novel HEAT AND LIGHT won a Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and was named a Best Book of 2016 by The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal and NPR. Her previous books include FAITH, THE CONDITION, BAKER TOWERS and MRS. KIMBLE, winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction, and the short story collection NEWS FROM HEAVEN, winner of the Massachusetts Book Award and the PEN New England Award in Fiction. Her short stories have been published in Granta, The Atlantic, The Best American Short Stories and many other places. Jennifer Haigh has been awarded grants by the James Michener Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. She lives in Boston. https://www.jennifer-haigh.com/]]>1684appalachia,books,christina,damian,discussion,dressick,fiction,fisanick,haigh,jennifer,literature,live,non-fiction,poems,reading,series,stories,wana,writingcleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/wana-live-reading-series-alison-stine--45364635
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http://www.alisonstine.com]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/45364635Sat, 19 Jun 2021 06:44:52 +0000WANA LIVE!lison Stine grew up in rural Ohio. Her first novel Road Out of Winter is a finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award. Her other books include three collections of poetry. Recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and National...
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A professional storyteller since 1990, Omope’s original works can be found in the Anthology of Appalachian Writers (Shepherd University) and Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel (Southern Appalachian Writers Collective). Achieving childhood dreams, Omope has travelled internationally, even representing Appalachia on a US State Department tour of Turkey in 2008. Her first published short story, “The Power of Water Baptism” (AAW, FRX Edition VI) was nominated for the prestigious Pushcart Prize.]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/45364631Sat, 19 Jun 2021 06:42:24 +0000WANA LIVE!Omope Carter Daboiku grew up in Ironton along the Ohio River in Lawrence County, Ohio, defined as northcentral Appalachia; and, cherished annual family trips “back home” to extended families living in both the Blue Ridge of Virginia and the Smokies...
A professional storyteller since 1990, Omope’s original works can be found in the Anthology of Appalachian Writers (Shepherd University) and Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel (Southern Appalachian Writers Collective). Achieving childhood dreams, Omope has travelled internationally, even representing Appalachia on a US State Department tour of Turkey in 2008. Her first published short story, “The Power of Water Baptism” (AAW, FRX Edition VI) was nominated for the prestigious Pushcart Prize.]]>1252appalachia,books,carter,christina,daboiku,damian,discussion,dressick,fiction,fisanick,literature,live,non-fiction,omope,poems,reading,series,stories,wana,writingcleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/wana-live-reading-series-tommy-dean--45364628https://api.spreaker.com/episode/45364628Sat, 19 Jun 2021 06:41:31 +0000WANA LIVE!Tommy Dean is the author of the flash fiction chapbook Special Like the People on TV from Redbird Chapbooks. The Editor at Fractured Lit, Dean’s work has appeared in the BULL Magazine, The MacGuffin, The Lascaux Review, New World Writing, Pithead...654appalachia,books,christina,damian,dean,discussion,dressick,fiction,fisanick,literature,live,non-fiction,poems,reading,series,stories,tommy,wana,writingcleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/wana-live-reading-series-john-lawson--45364623https://api.spreaker.com/episode/45364623Sat, 19 Jun 2021 06:40:42 +0000WANA LIVE!John Lawson has taught writing and rhetoric at Robert Morris University for twenty-two years. His poetry collection, Generations, was published by the St. Andrews University Press, and his poems have appeared in Main Street Rag, Vox Populi, and many...880appalachia,books,christina,damian,discussion,dressick,fiction,fisanick,john,lawson,literature,live,non-fiction,poems,reading,series,stories,wana,writingcleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/wana-live-reading-series-sherrie-flick--45364619https://api.spreaker.com/episode/45364619Sat, 19 Jun 2021 06:39:52 +0000WANA LIVE!Sherrie Flick is the author of the novel Reconsidering Happiness and two short story collections, Whiskey, Etc. and Thank Your Lucky Stars. Her stories have been performed for Selected Shorts and appear in Ploughshares, New World Writing, and Wigleaf,...846appalachia,books,christina,damian,discussion,dressick,fiction,fisanick,flick,literature,live,non-fiction,poems,reading,series,sherrie,stories,wana,writingcleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/wana-live-reading-series-jason-irwin--45364615www.jasonirwin.blogspot.com]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/45364615Sat, 19 Jun 2021 06:38:51 +0000WANA LIVE!Jason Irwin is the author of The History of Our Vagrancies (forthcoming, Main Street Rag), A Blister of Stars (Low Ghost, 2016), & Watering the Dead (Pavement Saw Press, 2008). He earned an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. He lives in Pittsburgh with...www.jasonirwin.blogspot.com]]>592appalachia,books,christina,damian,discussion,dressick,fiction,fisanick,irwin,jason,literature,live,non-fiction,poems,reading,series,stories,wana,writingcleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/wana-live-reading-series-jamilla-rice--45364613Her work includes poetry, short fiction, flash nonfiction and combinations of all of the above and more. Topics generally explore: the intersection of the personal and political; past as present and future; the beauty within the mundane and pain; the science, math and absurdity of human behavior; and the undying insistence of oppressed peoples to do more than simply exist. (Hence, all of the above).]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/45364613Sat, 19 Jun 2021 06:38:00 +0000WANA LIVE!Jamilla Rice dreams of when she can own her days and write. Until then, she squeezes out moments during her time as an athlete, educator, speaker, aunt, gardener, book nerd, baker, and British detective drama junkie. Her work has been published in...Her work includes poetry, short fiction, flash nonfiction and combinations of all of the above and more. Topics generally explore: the intersection of the personal and political; past as present and future; the beauty within the mundane and pain; the science, math and absurdity of human behavior; and the undying insistence of oppressed peoples to do more than simply exist. (Hence, all of the above).]]>832appalachia,books,christina,damian,discussion,dressick,fiction,fisanick,jamilla,literature,live,non-fiction,poems,reading,rice,series,stories,wana,writingcleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/wana-live-reading-series-jacinda-townsend--45364611https://api.spreaker.com/episode/45364611Sat, 19 Jun 2021 06:36:53 +0000WANA LIVE!Jacinda Townsend is the author of Kif, which is forthcoming from Graywolf Press in 2022, and Saint Monkey (Norton, 2014), which is set in 1950’s Eastern Kentucky and won the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize and the James Fenimore Cooper Prize for...803appalachia,books,christina,damian,discussion,dressick,fiction,fisanick,jacinda,literature,live,non-fiction,poems,reading,series,stories,townsend,wana,writingcleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/wana-live-reading-series-james-charlesworth--45364609https://api.spreaker.com/episode/45364609Sat, 19 Jun 2021 06:35:55 +0000WANA LIVE!James Charlesworth’s first novel, The Patricide of George Benjamin Hill, was published in 2019. His writing has appeared in Natural Bridge and was awarded finalist status in Glimmer Train's Short Story Award for New Writers. He was also the recipient...1483appalachia,books,charlesworth,christina,damian,discussion,dressick,fiction,fisanick,james,literature,live,non-fiction,poems,reading,series,stories,wana,writingcleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/wana-live-reading-series-leslie-ann-mcilroy--45364608https://api.spreaker.com/episode/45364608Sat, 19 Jun 2021 06:34:52 +0000WANA LIVE!Leslie Anne Mcilroy won the 1997 Slipstream Poetry Chapbook Prize for Gravel, the 2001 Word Press Poetry Prize for her first full-length collection Rare Space, the 1997 Chicago Literary Awards and the 2018 Gemini Flash Fiction contest. The publication...1030ann,appalachia,books,christina,damian,discussion,dressick,fiction,fisanick,leslie,literature,live,mcilroy,non-fiction,poems,reading,series,stories,wana,writingcleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/wana-live-reading-series-amy-jo-burns--45364607https://api.spreaker.com/episode/45364607Sat, 19 Jun 2021 06:33:43 +0000WANA LIVE!Amy Jo Burns is the author of the memoir Cinderland and Shiner, a novel which is out now from Riverhead Books. Her writing has appeared in The Paris Review Daily, Tin House, Ploughshares, Good Housekeeping, Electric Literature, Literary Hub, and the...899amy,appalachia,books,burns,christina,damian,discussion,dressick,fiction,fisanick,jo,literature,live,non-fiction,poems,reading,series,stories,wana,writingcleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/wana-live-reading-series-sheila-squillante--45364606Recent work has appeared or will appear in places like Copper Nickel, Crab Orchard Review, North Dakota Quarterly, Indiana Review, Waxwing, and River Teeth. She directs the MFA program in creative writing at Chatham University, where she edits The Fourth River, a journal of nature and place-based writing. From her dining room table, she edits Barrelhouse online.]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/45364606Sat, 19 Jun 2021 06:32:28 +0000WANA LIVE!SHEILA SQUILLANTE is the author of the poetry collection, Beautiful Nerve, and three chapbooks of poetry: In This Dream of My Father, Women Who Pawn Their Jewelry and A Woman Traces the Shoreline. Her second collection, Mostly Human, has won the 2020...Recent work has appeared or will appear in places like Copper Nickel, Crab Orchard Review, North Dakota Quarterly, Indiana Review, Waxwing, and River Teeth. She directs the MFA program in creative writing at Chatham University, where she edits The Fourth River, a journal of nature and place-based writing. From her dining room table, she edits Barrelhouse online.]]>991appalachia,books,christina,damian,discussion,dressick,fiction,fisanick,literature,live,non-fiction,poems,reading,series,sheila,squillante,stories,wana,writingcleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/wana-live-reading-series-michael-dittman--45364605www.Michaeldittman.com]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/45364605Sat, 19 Jun 2021 06:31:03 +0000WANA LIVE!Michael Dittman lives and writes near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania surrounded by the palimpsest of the Appalachian Rust Belt and its ghosts. He’s worked at bike shops, in newsrooms, and on top of roofs, but today he can be found more often at the front of...www.Michaeldittman.com]]>959appalachia,books,christina,damian,discussion,dittman,dressick,fiction,fisanick,literature,live,michael,non-fiction,poems,reading,series,stories,wana,writingcleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/wana-live-reading-series-laura-jackson-roberts--45364589https://api.spreaker.com/episode/45364589Sat, 19 Jun 2021 06:29:42 +0000WANA LIVE!Laura Jackson Roberts is an environmental writer and humorist from northern West Virginia. She holds degrees in environmental science and creative writing. A graduate of Chatham University, her work has appeared in many publications, including...839appalachia,books,christina,damian,discussion,dressick,fiction,fisanick,jackson,laura,literature,live,non-fiction,poems,reading,roberts,series,stories,wana,writingcleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/wana-live-reading-series-joseph-bathanti--45364588https://api.spreaker.com/episode/45364588Sat, 19 Jun 2021 06:28:14 +0000WANA LIVE!Joseph Bathanti, son of a union steelworker and union seamstress, respectively, grew up in Pittsburgh. He is the former Poet Laureate of North Carolina (2012-14) and recipient of the 2016 North Carolina Award in Literature. He is the author of ten...1252appalachia,bathanti,books,christina,damian,discussion,dressick,fiction,fisanick,joseph,literature,live,non-fiction,poems,reading,series,stories,wana,writingcleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/wana-live-reading-series-brittany-hailer--45364585https://api.spreaker.com/episode/45364585Sat, 19 Jun 2021 06:26:36 +0000WANA LIVE!Brittany Hailer is a freelance reporter and educator based in Pittsburgh. For her stories of people affected by the opioid epidemic, she received a 2019 Golden Quill Award from the Press Club of Western Pennsylvania and a Robert L. Vann Award of...726appalachia,books,brittany,christina,damian,discussion,dressick,fiction,fisanick,hailer,literature,live,non-fiction,poems,reading,series,stories,wana,writingcleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/wana-live-reading-series-jeremy-b-jones--45364582https://api.spreaker.com/episode/45364582Sat, 19 Jun 2021 06:25:26 +0000WANA LIVE!Jeremy is the author of Bearwallow: A Personal History of a Mountain Homeland (Blair, 2014), which won the 2014 Appalachian Book of the Year in nonfiction and was awarded gold in the 2015 Independent Publisher Book (IPPY) Awards in memoir. His essays...806appalachia,books,christina,damian,discussion,dressick,fiction,fisanick,jeremy,jones,literature,live,non-fiction,poems,reading,series,stories,wana,writingcleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/wana-live-reading-series-john-hoppenthaler--45364580
With Kazim, Ali, he has co-edited a volume of essays on the poetry of Jean Valentine, This-World Company (U of Michigan P, 2012). His essays, interviews, and essay/reviews appear in such journals as Arts & Letters, Southeast Review, Chelsea, Bellingham Review, Pleiades, The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poetry, The Cortland Review, Tar River Poetry, Waccamaw, North Carolina Literary Review, and Kestrel, where he served as Poetry editor for eleven years. He currently serves as Advisory Editor to the cultural journal Connotation Press: An Online Artifact, where he edits “A Poetry Congeries.” He also serves on the Advisory Board for Backbone Press, specializing in the publication and promotion of marginalized voices.

Among his honors are the ECU 5-Year Achievement for Research & Creative Activity Award, the ECU Department of English Award for Excellence in Research and Creative Activity, an Individual Artist Grant from the West Virginia Commission on the Arts, grants from the New York Foundation on the Arts and New York State Council on the Arts, and the North Carolina Community Council for the Arts, and Residency Fellowships from The Weymouth Center for the Arts and Humanities, the MacDowell Colony, the Elizabeth Bishop House, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. He was named and served two terms as the Gilbert-Chappell Distinguished Poet for the Eastern Region of North Carolina, and Domestic Garden received the Brockman—Campbell Award for the best collection of poetry by a North Carolinian in 2015.]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/45364580Sat, 19 Jun 2021 06:24:08 +0000WANA LIVE!John Hoppenthaler’s books of poetry are Domestic Garden (2015), Anticipate the Coming Reservoir (2008), and Lives of Water (2003), all with Carnegie Mellon University Press. His poetry and essays have appeared in many journals, anthologies, and...
With Kazim, Ali, he has co-edited a volume of essays on the poetry of Jean Valentine, This-World Company (U of Michigan P, 2012). His essays, interviews, and essay/reviews appear in such journals as Arts & Letters, Southeast Review, Chelsea, Bellingham Review, Pleiades, The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poetry, The Cortland Review, Tar River Poetry, Waccamaw, North Carolina Literary Review, and Kestrel, where he served as Poetry editor for eleven years. He currently serves as Advisory Editor to the cultural journal Connotation Press: An Online Artifact, where he edits “A Poetry Congeries.” He also serves on the Advisory Board for Backbone Press, specializing in the publication and promotion of marginalized voices.

Among his honors are the ECU 5-Year Achievement for Research & Creative Activity Award, the ECU Department of English Award for Excellence in Research and Creative Activity, an Individual Artist Grant from the West Virginia Commission on the Arts, grants from the New York Foundation on the Arts and New York State Council on the Arts, and the North Carolina Community Council for the Arts, and Residency Fellowships from The Weymouth Center for the Arts and Humanities, the MacDowell Colony, the Elizabeth Bishop House, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. He was named and served two terms as the Gilbert-Chappell Distinguished Poet for the Eastern Region of North Carolina, and Domestic Garden received the Brockman—Campbell Award for the best collection of poetry by a North Carolinian in 2015.]]>1071appalachia,books,christina,damian,discussion,dressick,fiction,fisanick,hoppenthaler,john,literature,live,non-fiction,poems,reading,series,stories,wana,writingcleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/wana-live-reading-series-deesha-philyaw--45364577https://api.spreaker.com/episode/45364577Sat, 19 Jun 2021 06:22:06 +0000WANA LIVE!Deesha Philyaw’s debut short story collection, THE SECRET LIVES OF CHURCH LADIES, focuses on Black women, sex, and the Black church and is a finalist for the National Book Award. Deesha is also the co-author of Co-Parenting 101: Helping Your Kids...1059appalachia,books,christina,damian,deesha,discussion,dressick,fiction,fisanick,literature,live,non-fiction,philyaw,poems,reading,series,stories,wana,writingcleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/wana-live-reading-series-pa-wilds-podcasters-mark-sanko-jeffrey-diamond--45364572https://api.spreaker.com/episode/45364572Sat, 19 Jun 2021 06:20:39 +0000WANA LIVE!Clarion University professors, Dr. Marc Sanko and Dr. Jeffrey Diamond, recently launched the podcast “Stories from the Pennsylvania Wilds,” where they showcase these important pieces of history from across the Wilds region. Join us as they talk about...1593books,christina,damian,diamond,discussion,dressick,fiction,fisanick,jeffrey,literature,live,mark,non-fiction,poems,reading,sanko,series,stories,wana,writingcleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/wana-live-reading-series-low-ghost-press-taylor-grieshober-bart-solarczyk--45364570
Bart Solarczyk lives in Pittsburgh, PA with his daughter, dog and cat. His poems have recently appeared in Big Hammer, Live Nude Poems, Rasputin, Winedrunk Sidewalk and River Dog. He appears in G.A.S. #3, a Gypsy Art Show video that can be viewed on YouTube, reading five of his poems. His book Tilted World is available from Low Ghost Press and on Amazon.]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/45364570Sat, 19 Jun 2021 06:19:13 +0000WANA LIVE!Taylor Grieshober is the author of the short story collection Off Days, published by Low Ghost Press in 2019. Her most recent story was awarded third place in the Masters Review Winter Short Story Contest, judged by Kimberly King Parsons. Her other...
Bart Solarczyk lives in Pittsburgh, PA with his daughter, dog and cat. His poems have recently appeared in Big Hammer, Live Nude Poems, Rasputin, Winedrunk Sidewalk and River Dog. He appears in G.A.S. #3, a Gypsy Art Show video that can be viewed on YouTube, reading five of his poems. His book Tilted World is available from Low Ghost Press and on Amazon.]]>1228appalachia,books,christina,damian,discussion,dressick,fiction,fisanick,ghost,literature,live,low,non-fiction,poems,press,reading,series,stories,wana,writingcleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/wana-live-reading-series-michael-knost--45364569
Michael is the host of a new podcast called The Author’s Voice. He received the Horror Writers Association’s Silver Hammer Award in 2015 for his work as the organization’s mentorship chair. He also received the prestigious J.U.G. (Just Uncommonly Good) Award from West Virginia Writer’s Inc. His Return of the Mothman is currently being filmed as a film adaption. He has taught writing classes and workshops at several colleges, conventions, online, and currently resides in Chapmanville, West Virginia with his wife, daughter, and a zombie goldfish.]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/45364569Sat, 19 Jun 2021 06:17:20 +0000WANA LIVE!Michael Knost is a Bram Stoker Award®-winning editor and author of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and supernatural thrillers. He has written in various genres and helmed multiple anthologies. His Writers Workshop of Horror won the 2009 Bram Stoker...
Michael is the host of a new podcast called The Author’s Voice. He received the Horror Writers Association’s Silver Hammer Award in 2015 for his work as the organization’s mentorship chair. He also received the prestigious J.U.G. (Just Uncommonly Good) Award from West Virginia Writer’s Inc. His Return of the Mothman is currently being filmed as a film adaption. He has taught writing classes and workshops at several colleges, conventions, online, and currently resides in Chapmanville, West Virginia with his wife, daughter, and a zombie goldfish.]]>2477appalachia,books,christina,damian,discussion,dressick,fiction,fisanick,knost,literature,live,michael,non-fiction,poems,reading,series,stories,wana,writingcleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/wana-live-reading-series-kristofer-collins--45364566https://api.spreaker.com/episode/45364566Sat, 19 Jun 2021 06:16:08 +0000WANA LIVE!KRISTOFER COLLINS is the publisher at Low Ghost Press and the books editor at Pittsburgh Magazine. He is the co-host of the Hemingway’s Summer Poetry Series. Over the years, he created a literary name for himself with projects such as The New Yinzer...910appalachia,books,christina,collins,damian,discussion,dressick,fiction,fisanick,kristofer,literature,live,non-fiction,poems,reading,series,stories,wana,writingcleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/wana-live-reading-series-chauna-craig--45364558https://api.spreaker.com/episode/45364558Sat, 19 Jun 2021 06:14:49 +0000WANA LIVE!Chauna Craig is professor of Creative Writing at Indiana University of Pennsylvania where she has also served as Director of Women Studies and Dean’s Associate of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences. Her writing has appeared in Prairie...866appalachia,books,chauna,christina,craig,damian,discussion,dressick,fiction,fisanick,literature,live,non-fiction,poems,reading,series,stories,wana,writingcleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/wana-live-reading-series-thanksgiving-marc-harshman--45364554https://api.spreaker.com/episode/45364554Sat, 19 Jun 2021 06:12:30 +0000WANA LIVE!Marc Harshman is the new poet laureate of West Virginia. A full-length collection of poems, GREEN-SILVER AND SILENT, has just been published by Bottom Dog Press. Four chapbooks of poems include ROSE OF SHARON, Mad River Press, MA. Periodical...1074appalachia,books,christina,damian,discussion,dressick,fiction,fisanick,harshman,literature,live,marc,non-fiction,poems,reading,series,stories,wana,writingcleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/wana-live-reading-series-kim-chinquee--45364552https://api.spreaker.com/episode/45364552Sat, 19 Jun 2021 06:06:48 +0000WANA LIVE!Kim Chinquee is the author of seven collections, most recently Snowdog, due out in January 2021 with Ravenna Press. She is the recipient of two Pushcart Prizes and has published in several joumals and anthologies including Noon, Denver Quarterly,...870appalachia,books,christina,damian,discussion,dressick,fiction,fisanick,literature,live,non-fiction,poems,reading,series,stories,wana,writingcleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/wana-live-reading-series-byron-hoot--45364550
You can find Hoot's books and books by other WCONA LIVE! writers at
bookshop.org/lists/wcona-live-northern-appalachia-s-literary-homeplace]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/45364550Sat, 19 Jun 2021 06:05:39 +0000WANA LIVE!Byron Hoot was born and raised in Morgantown, West Virginia and lived there until he went to college - a twelve year excursion. He never returned to West Virginia but he never left it. Appalachia, the hills and streams, the people, his memories of...
You can find Hoot's books and books by other WCONA LIVE! writers at
bookshop.org/lists/wcona-live-northern-appalachia-s-literary-homeplace]]>412appalachia,books,christina,damian,discussion,dressick,fiction,fisanick,literature,live,non-fiction,poems,reading,series,stories,wana,writingcleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/wana-live-reading-series-karen-weyant--45364549https://api.spreaker.com/episode/45364549Sat, 19 Jun 2021 06:03:27 +0000WANA LIVE!Born and raised in rural Pennsylvania, Karen J. Weyant is the author of two poetry chapbooks, Stealing Dust (Finishing Line Press) and Wearing Heels in the Rust Belt (Main Street Rag). Her poems and essays have appeared in Chautauqua, Copper Nickel,...653appalachia,books,christina,damian,discussion,dressick,fiction,fisanick,karen,literature,live,non-fiction,novels,poems,reading,series,stories,wana,weyantcleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/wana-live-reading-series-christina-veladota--43990175
Please stick around after Christina's reading for a special announcement.]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/43990175Sun, 21 Mar 2021 21:16:51 +0000WANA LIVE!Christina Veladota's poetry has appeared in many literary journals, including Glass: A Journal of Poetry, The Laurel Review, The Journal, Bellingham Review, Dialogist, Hotel Amerika, and Mid American Review. The author of two chapbooks, Clutch & Brood...
Please stick around after Christina's reading for a special announcement.]]>1853cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/wana-live-reading-series-sarah-shotland--43990037https://api.spreaker.com/episode/43990037Sun, 21 Mar 2021 21:01:32 +0000WANA LIVE!Sarah Shotland is the author of the novel Junkette, and her essays have been published in The lowa Review, Baltimore Review, and Creative Nonfiction. She is Program Director of Words Without Walls, which brings creative writing to jails, prisons, and...1131cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/wana-live-reading-series-kari-gunter-seymour--43990117


Her work was selected by former US Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey to be included in the PBS American Portrait crowdsourced poem, Remix: For My People. Her poetry appears in several publications including, The NY Times, Verse Daily, Rattle, Crab Orchard Review, Main Street Rag, Stirring, Still, CALYX and The LA Times. Her chapbook “Serving” is available from Crisis Chronicles Press. She is a Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize nominee. She teaches a monthly workshop series and has worked with incarcerated men, women, teens, and women in recovery housing.

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Her award winning photography has been published nationally in The Sun Magazine, Light Journal, Looking at Appalachia, Storm Cellar Quarterly, Anthology of Appalachian Writers, Vine Leaves Journal and Appalachian Review.



Gunter-Seymour is the founder/executive director of the “Women of Appalachia Project,” an arts organization she created to address discrimination directed at women from the Appalachian region by encouraging participation from women artists (spoken word and fine art ) of diverse backgrounds, ages and experiences to come together, embrace the stereotype, show the whole woman; beyond the superficial factors people use to judge her. (www.womenofappalachia.com).

​]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/43990117Sun, 21 Mar 2021 21:01:23 +0000WANA LIVE!Kari Gunter-Seymour is a ninth generation Appalachian and editor the Women of Appalachia Project anthologies, "Women Speak," volumes 1-6 and "Essentially Athens Ohio," an anthology focused on landmarks, tales and experiences of those living in or...


Her work was selected by former US Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey to be included in the PBS American Portrait crowdsourced poem, Remix: For My People. Her poetry appears in several publications including, The NY Times, Verse Daily, Rattle, Crab Orchard Review, Main Street Rag, Stirring, Still, CALYX and The LA Times. Her chapbook “Serving” is available from Crisis Chronicles Press. She is a Best of the Net and Pushcart Prize nominee. She teaches a monthly workshop series and has worked with incarcerated men, women, teens, and women in recovery housing.

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Her award winning photography has been published nationally in The Sun Magazine, Light Journal, Looking at Appalachia, Storm Cellar Quarterly, Anthology of Appalachian Writers, Vine Leaves Journal and Appalachian Review.



Gunter-Seymour is the founder/executive director of the “Women of Appalachia Project,” an arts organization she created to address discrimination directed at women from the Appalachian region by encouraging participation from women artists (spoken word and fine art ) of diverse backgrounds, ages and experiences to come together, embrace the stereotype, show the whole woman; beyond the superficial factors people use to judge her. (www.womenofappalachia.com).

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Nathaniel Ricketts is a poet from Pittsburgh and a 5th-year student in the Penn State English department's BA/MA program in creative writing. He is currently working on his master's thesis, a chap-book length collection of poems focused on class struggle and environmental politics in the Rust Belt.

Matthew Dougherty grew up in Ohio and is a third-year fiction student in the MFA program at West Virginia University. His stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Salamander, Sonora Review, and Crab Orchard Review, all as contest winners. He also enjoys writing and performing original songs under the artist name Matt Skerk.

Arista Rawat Engineer is a poet and fiction writer whose work explores questions that arise from the confluence of worlds-modernity and tradition, language and culture, myth and literature. She is a first-year student at Chatham University's MFA program. She is from Pune, India and loves being

in Pittsburgh because she's always lived in places that begin with a "P"!

Doralee Brooks lives in Pittsburgh and holds an MFA from Carlow University. Her poems have appeared in Voices from the Attic, Paterson Literary Review, Pittsburgh Poetry Review, and Dos Passos Review among others. Doralee's chapbook, When I Hold You Up to the Light, won the 2019 Cathy Smith Bowers Chapbook Contest published by Main Street Rag.

As always, you can find books by WCONA writers on BookShop.com/shop/WCONA LIVE]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/43990033Sun, 21 Mar 2021 20:57:44 +0000WANA LIVE!Join us on New Year's Eve as we celebrate the work of emerging writers from four graduate programs throughout northern Appalachia. Nathaniel Ricketts is a poet from Pittsburgh and a 5th-year student in the Penn State English department's BA/MA...
Nathaniel Ricketts is a poet from Pittsburgh and a 5th-year student in the Penn State English department's BA/MA program in creative writing. He is currently working on his master's thesis, a chap-book length collection of poems focused on class struggle and environmental politics in the Rust Belt.

Matthew Dougherty grew up in Ohio and is a third-year fiction student in the MFA program at West Virginia University. His stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Salamander, Sonora Review, and Crab Orchard Review, all as contest winners. He also enjoys writing and performing original songs under the artist name Matt Skerk.

Arista Rawat Engineer is a poet and fiction writer whose work explores questions that arise from the confluence of worlds-modernity and tradition, language and culture, myth and literature. She is a first-year student at Chatham University's MFA program. She is from Pune, India and loves being

in Pittsburgh because she's always lived in places that begin with a "P"!

Doralee Brooks lives in Pittsburgh and holds an MFA from Carlow University. Her poems have appeared in Voices from the Attic, Paterson Literary Review, Pittsburgh Poetry Review, and Dos Passos Review among others. Doralee's chapbook, When I Hold You Up to the Light, won the 2019 Cathy Smith Bowers Chapbook Contest published by Main Street Rag.

As always, you can find books by WCONA writers on BookShop.com/shop/WCONA LIVE]]>2166cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/wana-live-reading-series-pk-harmon--43990034https://api.spreaker.com/episode/43990034Sun, 21 Mar 2021 20:55:51 +0000WANA LIVE!P.K. Harmon is the Founding Editor of Al in Aelon Kein: the Marshall Islands Literary Review and former theatre director and Humanities professor of the College of the Marshall Islands. A graduate of Ohio University's Program in Creative Writing, he...961cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/wana-live-reading-series-matt-ference--43990029https://api.spreaker.com/episode/43990029Sun, 21 Mar 2021 20:54:10 +0000WANA LIVE!Matthew Ferrence wandered away from his birthplace in southwestern Pennsylvania to live in the high desert of southern Arizona, then in the urban cultural center of Paris, France. Pulled by shared geographies of their home Appalachians, he and his...1645cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/wana-live-reading-series-nancy-krygowski--43990031https://api.spreaker.com/episode/43990031Sun, 21 Mar 2021 20:52:45 +0000WANA LIVE!Nancy Krygowski is the author of The Woman in the Corner (University of Pittsburgh Press) which was named one of the top 100 (or so) books of poetry for 2020 by Library Journal. Her first book, Velocity, won the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize from the...897cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/wana-live-reading-series-ligonier-valley-writers-student-poetry-award-winners--43990026
Sonya Verbina, a fourth-grader at the Valley School of Ligonier, won the Walter McGough Memorial Award, sponsored by the family of Walter McGough and Ligonier Valley Writers, for “The Aztec Animal.” Category B, Chestnut Ridge Literary Poetry Award. Sponsored by Lou and Barbara Steiner. Sonya's Bio: Hi, my name is Sonya. I'm almost 10 years old, and I really love axolotls. Axolotls are small, endangered animals that come in many colors. Anyways, my name is Sonya and I can speak a couple of different languages. I can speak: Russian, English, a bit of Spanish, and a bit of Chinese. I love to read, and I'm interested in greek mythology.

AnnaMarie Stephenson, a sixth-grader at Ligonier Valley Middle School, won 1st prize for “You're Not Here” in Category B. Chestnut Ridge Literary Poetry Award (G 4-6: unrhymed verse, any subject). Sponsored by Lou and Barbara Steiner.
AnnaMarie’s bio: My name is AnnaMarie. I have always liked writing and science, but I never thought I would win 1st place in an unrhymed poem competition! My father died when I was very young. It was heartbreaking for me. I decided that I would take that and make a poem that makes me remember him. I really miss him.]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/43990026Sun, 21 Mar 2021 20:51:06 +0000WANA LIVE!Ligonier Valley Writers has just announced that students from schools throughout western Pennsylvania have won awards in LVW's 29th annual Student Poetry Awards. Two of those writers--Sonya Verbina and AnnMarie Stephenson--will be featured on WCONA...
Sonya Verbina, a fourth-grader at the Valley School of Ligonier, won the Walter McGough Memorial Award, sponsored by the family of Walter McGough and Ligonier Valley Writers, for “The Aztec Animal.” Category B, Chestnut Ridge Literary Poetry Award. Sponsored by Lou and Barbara Steiner. Sonya's Bio: Hi, my name is Sonya. I'm almost 10 years old, and I really love axolotls. Axolotls are small, endangered animals that come in many colors. Anyways, my name is Sonya and I can speak a couple of different languages. I can speak: Russian, English, a bit of Spanish, and a bit of Chinese. I love to read, and I'm interested in greek mythology.

AnnaMarie Stephenson, a sixth-grader at Ligonier Valley Middle School, won 1st prize for “You're Not Here” in Category B. Chestnut Ridge Literary Poetry Award (G 4-6: unrhymed verse, any subject). Sponsored by Lou and Barbara Steiner.
AnnaMarie’s bio: My name is AnnaMarie. I have always liked writing and science, but I never thought I would win 1st place in an unrhymed poem competition! My father died when I was very young. It was heartbreaking for me. I decided that I would take that and make a poem that makes me remember him. I really miss him.]]>483cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/wana-live-reading-series-jess-weible--43990000
Jess leads two writing groups, the Writer's Block Party and the Rebecca M. Arthur's Young Writers. She lives with her husband and two boys in Brookville, Pennsylvania.]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/43990000Sun, 21 Mar 2021 20:50:11 +0000WANA LIVE!Jess Weible is a freelance writer and reporter. Her writing has been featured in the Huffington Post and various local news outlets. Her column featuring writers of the Pennsylvania Wilds appears every month in the Brookville Mirror. Jess's poetry has...
Jess leads two writing groups, the Writer's Block Party and the Rebecca M. Arthur's Young Writers. She lives with her husband and two boys in Brookville, Pennsylvania.]]>1925cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/wana-live-reading-series-kayla-sargeson--43990025https://api.spreaker.com/episode/43990025Sun, 21 Mar 2021 20:50:00 +0000WANA LIVE!Kayla Sargeson is the author of the full-length collection First Red (Main Street Rag, 2016) and the chapbooks BLAZE (Main Street Rag, 2015) and Mini Love Gun (Main Street Rag, 2013). With Lisa Alexander, she co-curates the Laser Cat reading series622cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/wana-live-reading-series-karen-craigo--43990019https://api.spreaker.com/episode/43990019Sun, 21 Mar 2021 20:48:39 +0000WANA LIVE!Karen Craigo is the Poet Laureate of the State of Missouri. She is the author of two full-length collections (Passing Through Humansville, 2018, and No More Milk, 2016, both from Sundress Publications), as well as three chapbooks. She hails from...1186cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/wana-live-reading-series-lori-jakiela--43989962
A native of Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, and writer-in-residence at Lock Haven University, Jared has tried to cleave on multiple occasions. He even went to such extremes as to moped across these fine United States. This did not end well.

As luck should have it, his adventures crop up time and again in being one half of the singer-songwriter duo The Echo & Sway, and in his non-fiction, comics, and poetry.

He is the author of three chapbooks, most recently 2017’s “The Emperor’s New Poems: Poems New, Poems Used, Poems Slightly Abused” and is currently at work on a sequel of sorts to his first. This is not a joke.

As per his seven-year-itch, in relation to the newest wrinkle in his magnum opus, this post-apocalyptic fantasy is proving difficult to make amends during the current political climate.

“Last 4th of July” is the first installment of his “Traveling Tales of Waybackwhen.”

This is not the end.]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/43989962Sun, 21 Mar 2021 20:42:12 +0000WANA LIVE!Shedding his cells every seven years (as our species is so inclined) Jared A. Conti is but a shell of his former self. This is not his final form. A native of Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, and writer-in-residence at Lock Haven University, Jared has tried...
A native of Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, and writer-in-residence at Lock Haven University, Jared has tried to cleave on multiple occasions. He even went to such extremes as to moped across these fine United States. This did not end well.

As luck should have it, his adventures crop up time and again in being one half of the singer-songwriter duo The Echo & Sway, and in his non-fiction, comics, and poetry.

He is the author of three chapbooks, most recently 2017’s “The Emperor’s New Poems: Poems New, Poems Used, Poems Slightly Abused” and is currently at work on a sequel of sorts to his first. This is not a joke.

As per his seven-year-itch, in relation to the newest wrinkle in his magnum opus, this post-apocalyptic fantasy is proving difficult to make amends during the current political climate.

“Last 4th of July” is the first installment of his “Traveling Tales of Waybackwhen.”

This is not the end.]]>973books,christina,discussion,fisanick,jakiel,live,lori,novels,reading,stories,wana,writingcleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/wana-live-reading-series-jared-conti--43989931
A native of Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, and writer-in-residence at Lock Haven University, Jared has tried to cleave on multiple occasions. He even went to such extremes as to moped across these fine United States. This did not end well.

As luck should have it, his adventures crop up time and again in being one half of the singer-songwriter duo The Echo & Sway, and in his non-fiction, comics, and poetry.

He is the author of three chapbooks, most recently 2017’s “The Emperor’s New Poems: Poems New, Poems Used, Poems Slightly Abused” and is currently at work on a sequel of sorts to his first. This is not a joke.

As per his seven-year-itch, in relation to the newest wrinkle in his magnum opus, this post-apocalyptic fantasy is proving difficult to make amends during the current political climate.

“Last 4th of July” is the first installment of his “Traveling Tales of Waybackwhen.”

This is not the end.]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/43989931Sun, 21 Mar 2021 20:41:24 +0000WANA LIVE!Shedding his cells every seven years (as our species is so inclined) Jared A. Conti is but a shell of his former self. This is not his final form. A native of Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, and writer-in-residence at Lock Haven University, Jared has tried...
A native of Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, and writer-in-residence at Lock Haven University, Jared has tried to cleave on multiple occasions. He even went to such extremes as to moped across these fine United States. This did not end well.

As luck should have it, his adventures crop up time and again in being one half of the singer-songwriter duo The Echo & Sway, and in his non-fiction, comics, and poetry.

He is the author of three chapbooks, most recently 2017’s “The Emperor’s New Poems: Poems New, Poems Used, Poems Slightly Abused” and is currently at work on a sequel of sorts to his first. This is not a joke.

As per his seven-year-itch, in relation to the newest wrinkle in his magnum opus, this post-apocalyptic fantasy is proving difficult to make amends during the current political climate.

“Last 4th of July” is the first installment of his “Traveling Tales of Waybackwhen.”

This is not the end.]]>947books,christina,conti,discussion,fisanick,jared,live,novels,reading,stories,wana,writingcleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/wana-live-reading-series-sue-powers--43989908https://api.spreaker.com/episode/43989908Sun, 21 Mar 2021 20:36:17 +0000WANA LIVE!Sue Powers grew up outside of Pittsburgh in a family with deep roots in the musical landscape of Western Pennsylvania. Powers is a founding member of the group Devilish Merry, where she pioneered the use of the five-string banjo in Celtic music. The...991books,christina,discussion,fisanick,live,novels,powers,reading,stories,sue,wana,writingcleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/wana-live-reading-series-wendy-mcvicker--43989892https://api.spreaker.com/episode/43989892Sun, 21 Mar 2021 20:34:02 +0000WANA LIVE!Wendy McVicker currently the poet laureate of Athens, Ohio, and has been writing and stirring up poetry wherever she can (often through the Ohio Arts Council's Arts Learning program) for a lot of years. Her chapbook, The Dancer's Notes, was published...708books,christina,discussion,fisanick,live,mcvicker,novels,reading,stories,wana,wendy,writingcleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/wana-live-reading-series-heather-moser--43989856
Diving into her Appalachian roots, Heather is an active member of the Writer's Conference of Northern Appalachia as well the literary journal Northern Appalachia Review. She has also served as a guest author and narrator for Steve Stockton's Thirteen Past Midnight podcast. An ongoing contributor to the Weird Writer blog for Into the Fray Radio podcast as well as The Caravan, Library of Lore her work covers folkloric elements from different time periods and cultures. Heather is also a researcher for the film production company Small Town Monsters, assisting with films such as MOMO: The Missouri Monster and upcoming The Mothman Legacy.]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/43989856Sun, 21 Mar 2021 20:31:27 +0000WANA LIVE!Heather Moser grew up in the foothills of Appalachia. She is a classics professor, author, and researcher. Her areas of study include moral panics, particularly related to the Bacchic cult during the Roman Republic and the European Witch Craze of the...
Diving into her Appalachian roots, Heather is an active member of the Writer's Conference of Northern Appalachia as well the literary journal Northern Appalachia Review. She has also served as a guest author and narrator for Steve Stockton's Thirteen Past Midnight podcast. An ongoing contributor to the Weird Writer blog for Into the Fray Radio podcast as well as The Caravan, Library of Lore her work covers folkloric elements from different time periods and cultures. Heather is also a researcher for the film production company Small Town Monsters, assisting with films such as MOMO: The Missouri Monster and upcoming The Mothman Legacy.]]>931books,christina,disucssion,fisanick,heather,live,moser,novels,reading,stories,wana,writingcleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/wana-live-reading-series-brent-house--43989815https://api.spreaker.com/episode/43989815Sun, 21 Mar 2021 20:26:55 +0000WANA LIVE!Brent House, a contributing editor for The Tusculum Review, is a native of Necaise, Mississippi, where he raised cattle and watermelons on his family’s farm. Slash Pine Press published his first collection, The Saw Year Prophecies, and his poems have...1083books,brent,christina,fisanick,house,live,novels,reading,stories,wana,writingcleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/wana-live-reading-series-nichola-moretti--43989774https://api.spreaker.com/episode/43989774Sun, 21 Mar 2021 20:23:01 +0000WANA LIVE!Nichola Moretti is an adjunct instructor of writing in the Robert Morris University journalism concentration and the Community College of Allegheny County North and West English Department. Among other roles, she has worked as a photographer, writer...878books,christina,discussion,fisanick,novels,reading,stories,writingcleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/wana-live-reading-series-margo-orlando-littell--43989761https://api.spreaker.com/episode/43989761Sun, 21 Mar 2021 20:17:55 +0000WANA LIVE!Margo Orlando Littell is the author of the novels The Distance from Four Points and Each Vagabond by Name, both published by the University of New Orleans Press. Each Vagabond by Name won the University of New Orleans Publishing Lab Prize and an IPPY...599books,christina,discussion,frisanick,literature,littell,live,margo,novel,reading,stories,wana,writingcleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/wana-live-reading-series-neema-avashia--43989710https://api.spreaker.com/episode/43989710Sun, 21 Mar 2021 20:12:19 +0000WANA LIVE!Neema Avashia was born and raised in southern West Virginia, the daughter of Indian immigrant parents who moved to Appalachia in the early 70s so her father could work in the chemical industry. She has lived and worked in Boston for the last 17 years...762avashia,books,christina,discussion,fisanick,literature,neema,novels,reading,stories,writingcleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/wana-live-reading-series-connie-kinsey--43989693https://api.spreaker.com/episode/43989693Sun, 21 Mar 2021 20:09:42 +0000WANA LIVE!Connie Kinsey is an award-wining writer living in a converted barn on a dirt road at the top of a hill in West Virginia with two dogs, a cat and the occasional squirrel. Her work has been published online and in print. She writes both fiction and...486books,christina,connie,discussion,fisanick,kinsey,novels,reading,stories,writingcleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/wana-live-reading-series-barbara-edelmen--43989668https://api.spreaker.com/episode/43989668Sun, 21 Mar 2021 20:07:27 +0000WANA LIVE!Barbara Edelman’s poetry collections include Dream of the Gone-From City (Carnegie Mellon University Press 2017) and the chapbooks Exposure and A Girl in Water. Her work is forthcoming or has recently appeared in Spillway, Pleiades, Talking Writing...691barbara,books,christina,discussion,edelmen,fisanick,live,novels,reading,stories,wana,writingcleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/wana-live-reading-series-wesley-scott-mcmasters--43989651https://api.spreaker.com/episode/43989651Sun, 21 Mar 2021 20:05:00 +0000WANA LIVE!Wesley Scott McMasters is a poet from Northern Appalachia (Patton, PA) who now resides in East Tennessee (Jefferson City) with his dog Poet ("He came with the name--I swear!"), and he teaches American Lit and Creative Writing at Carson-Newman...696books,christina,damian,discussion,dressick,fisanick,mcmasters,novels,reading,stories,wesley,writingcleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/wana-live-reading-series-larry-smith--43989619https://api.spreaker.com/episode/43989619Sun, 21 Mar 2021 20:03:00 +0000WANA LIVE!Larry Smith is a native of the industrial Ohio River Valley having grown up in Mingo Junction, Ohio., the second of four children. His father was a brakeman on the railroad of Weirton Steel where the author worked two summers to help pay for college....396books,christina,discussion,fisanick,larry,literature,novels,reading,smith,stories,writingcleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/wana-live-reading-series-arlan-hess--43989258Owner of City Books
On Pittsburgh’s North Side]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/43989258Sun, 21 Mar 2021 19:24:11 +0000WANA LIVE!Special Guest Arlan Hess Owner of City Books On Pittsburgh’s North SideOwner of City Books
On Pittsburgh’s North Side]]>1393arlan,books,christina,discussion,fisanick,hess,literature,novels,reading,stories,writingcleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/wana-live-reading-series-todd-snyder--43987916
Snyder also teaches a course at Siena College in hip-hop studies and contributed a chapter to The Oxford Handbook of Hip-Hop Studies. The son of a West Virginia boxing trainer, Snyder’s work is also intimately connected to his life experience, the theme of working class masculinity serving as primary focus of his writing projects.]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/43987916Sun, 21 Mar 2021 17:06:46 +0000WANA LIVE!Dr. Todd D. Snyder is an Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Writing at Siena College in Albany, New York. He received a B.A. and an M.A. in English from Marshall University (2004, 2006) and a Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Composition from Ohio University...
Snyder also teaches a course at Siena College in hip-hop studies and contributed a chapter to The Oxford Handbook of Hip-Hop Studies. The son of a West Virginia boxing trainer, Snyder’s work is also intimately connected to his life experience, the theme of working class masculinity serving as primary focus of his writing projects.]]>1385books,christina,damian,discussion,dressick,fisanick,live,novels,reading,snyder,stories,todd,wana,writingcleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/wana-live-reading-series-maria-romasco-moore--43987905
She is a graduate of the Clarion West Writer’s Workshop and has an MFA from Southern Illinois University. She teaches writing at Columbus College of Art and Design.]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/43987905Sun, 21 Mar 2021 17:05:17 +0000WANA LIVE!Maria Romasco Moore is the author of Some Kind of Animal, a novel, and Ghostographs, an interconnected collection of flash fiction inspired by vintage photographs. Her stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Lightspeed, DIAGRAM, Hobart,...
She is a graduate of the Clarion West Writer’s Workshop and has an MFA from Southern Illinois University. She teaches writing at Columbus College of Art and Design.]]>1343books,christina,damian,dressick,fisanick,literature,maria,moore,novels,reading,stories,writingcleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/wana-live-reading-series-megan-schreiber-carter--43987909https://www.megansdesk.net/​​.]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/43987909Sun, 21 Mar 2021 17:04:57 +0000WANA LIVE!Megan Schreiber-Carter is a third-generation native of Elk County, PA, and a career writer. She’s spent much of her career in Washington, D.C.. Her clients include—a national, news-wire service; Discovery Neworks; and, National Geographic. Megan...https://www.megansdesk.net/​​.]]>593books,christina,damian,discussion,dressick,fisanick,megan,novels,reading,stories,writingcleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/wana-live-reading-series-hayley-mitchell-haugen--43987802https://sheilanagigblog.com/​) and Sheila-Na-Gig Editions.]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/43987802Sun, 21 Mar 2021 16:59:30 +0000WANA LIVE!Hayley Mitchell Haugen holds a PhD in English from Ohio University and an MFA in poetry from the University of Washington; she is Professor of English at Ohio University Southern in southeastern Ohio. Light & Shadow, Shadow & Light from Main Street...https://sheilanagigblog.com/​) and Sheila-Na-Gig Editions.]]>772books,christina,fisanick,haugen,hayley,literature,live,novels,reading,stories,wana,writingcleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/wana-live-reading-series-philip-terman--43987684www.philipterman.com.]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/43987684Sun, 21 Mar 2021 16:54:11 +0000WANA LIVE!Philip Terman is the author of eight books of poetry, most recently, Our Portion: New and Selected Poems. A selection of his poems, My Dear Friend Kafka was translated into Arabic and published in Damascus, Syria. His poems have appeared in Poetry...www.philipterman.com.]]>1225books,christina,damian,discussion,fisanick,literature,novels,philip,reading,stories,writingcleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/wana-live-reading-series-donna-dzurilla--43987657
Her creative nonfiction pieces have appeared in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Currently working towards her MFA in Carlow University’s Creative Writing Program with a concentration in fiction, Donna’s short stories have been published in the Voices from the Attic anthology series, Rune, The Penny, and other publications. She is working on a novel set during the demise of the steel industry.]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/43987657Sun, 21 Mar 2021 16:50:38 +0000WANA LIVE!Donna Dzurilla graduated with a BA in Professional Writing (minors in art, philosophy, and English Literature) and received the Excellence in Professional Writing Award from Carlow University. Her sculpture has appeared at the Pittsburgh Glass Center,...
Her creative nonfiction pieces have appeared in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Currently working towards her MFA in Carlow University’s Creative Writing Program with a concentration in fiction, Donna’s short stories have been published in the Voices from the Attic anthology series, Rune, The Penny, and other publications. She is working on a novel set during the demise of the steel industry.]]>968books,christina,damian,discussion,donna,literature,novels,reading,stories,writingcleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/wana-live-reading-series-amanda-heyes--43987721In exploring the ways that Appalachian people speak and write, Hayes raises the importance of knowing and respecting communication styles within a marginalized culture. Diving deep into the region’s historical roots—especially those of the Scotch-Irish and their influence on her own Appalachian Ohio—Hayes reveals a rhetoric with its own unique logic, utility, and poetry. Throughout, Hayes blends conventional scholarship with autobiography, storytelling, and dialect, illustrating Appalachian rhetoric’s validity as a means of creating and sharing knowledge.]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/43987721Sun, 21 Mar 2021 16:49:24 +0000WANA LIVE!Amanda E. Hayes is an assistant professor of English at Kent State University–Tuscarawas. She is the author of the 2019 College English Association of Ohio's Nancy Dasher Award winning book, The Politics of Appalachian Rhetoric. In exploring the ways...In exploring the ways that Appalachian people speak and write, Hayes raises the importance of knowing and respecting communication styles within a marginalized culture. Diving deep into the region’s historical roots—especially those of the Scotch-Irish and their influence on her own Appalachian Ohio—Hayes reveals a rhetoric with its own unique logic, utility, and poetry. Throughout, Hayes blends conventional scholarship with autobiography, storytelling, and dialect, illustrating Appalachian rhetoric’s validity as a means of creating and sharing knowledge.]]>1151amanda,books,christina,discussion,fisanick,heyes,novels,reading,stories,writingcleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/wana-live-reading-series-thaddeus-rutkowski--43987619https://api.spreaker.com/episode/43987619Sun, 21 Mar 2021 16:37:28 +0000WANA LIVE!Thaddeus Rutkowski grew up in central Pennsylvania and is a graduate of Cornell University and The Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of Tricks of Light , Border Crossings, Guess and Check , Violent Outbursts, Haywire, Tetched, and Roughhouse....933books,christina,discussion,live,reading,stories,thaddeus,wana,writingcleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/wana-live-reading-series-bonnie-proudfoot--43987239https://amzn.to/3cgqPcI​]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/43987239Sun, 21 Mar 2021 16:35:06 +0000WANA LIVE!Bonnie Proudfoot moved to Athens, OH, from Fairmont, WV. She has Creative Writing MA from Hollins and one from WVU. She received a Fellowship for the Arts from the West Virginia Department of Culture and History, and has published poetry and fiction...https://amzn.to/3cgqPcI​]]>594bonnie,books,christina,discussion,literature,live,novels,reading,stories,wana,writingcleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/wana-live-reading-series-damian-dressick--43984138
A Blue Mountain Residency Fellow, Dressick is the winner of the Harriette Arnow Award and the Jesse Stuart Prize. His story collection Fables of Deconstruction is forthcoming from CLASH Books in early 2021. He co-hosts WCONA: LIVE!, a virtual reading series that brings some of the best Appalachian writers to the world. Dressick teaches writing at Clarion University of Pennsylvania.

To learn more about Damian and to order his work, visit his website: DamianDressick.com]]>https://api.spreaker.com/episode/43984138Sun, 21 Mar 2021 15:48:04 +0000WANA LIVE!Born and raised in Pennsylvania’s coal country Damian Dressick is the author of the novel 40 Patchtown (Bottom Dog Press). His creative work has appeared in more than fifty literary journals and anthologies, including W.W. Norton’s New Micro, Post...
A Blue Mountain Residency Fellow, Dressick is the winner of the Harriette Arnow Award and the Jesse Stuart Prize. His story collection Fables of Deconstruction is forthcoming from CLASH Books in early 2021. He co-hosts WCONA: LIVE!, a virtual reading series that brings some of the best Appalachian writers to the world. Dressick teaches writing at Clarion University of Pennsylvania.

To learn more about Damian and to order his work, visit his website: DamianDressick.com]]>401books,christina,damian,discussion,dressick,literature,novels,reading,stories,wanacleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/episode/wana-live-reading-series-christina-fisanick--43972683https://api.spreaker.com/episode/43972683Sat, 20 Mar 2021 04:02:06 +0000WANA LIVE!Dr. Christina Fisanick is an associate professor of English at California University of Pennsylvania where she teaches expository writing, creative non-fiction, and digital storytelling. Christina is the author of dozens of articles and essays in...660books,christina,fisanick,literature,live,reading,story,wana,writingcleanfull