Speaker for the Appalachian Authors Guild general membership meeting on May 15, 2012, will be Wendy Welch of Big Stone Gap, Virginia. The meeting will be at the Tuscan Italian Grill in Abingdon, VA. An author herself, the topic of her talk will be -

transpAn idiom is worth a thousand pictures:
transpwriting memorable characters with dialogue

Wendy Welch, PhD, owns Tales of the Lonesome Pine Used Books and Cafe. She is the author of The Little Bookstore of Big Stone Gap: a memoir of friendship, community and the uncommon pleasure of a good book published by St. Martin's Press. Wendy was for several years a newspaper columnist in Tennessee. She currently writes a blog. She is co-editing a book on Appalachian Health with Dr. Gary Crum (McFarland Press, 2013). A past member of the National Storytelling Network's board of directors, Wendy is assistant editor for the Journal of Appalachian Studies.




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transpAppalachian Heritage Writers Symposium
transpJune 15-16, 2012



Call for Submissions

Click on the Contests and Workshops website page link for a full dozen current writing contests and manuscript submission opportunities.

In keeping with the vision to foster the art, craft, business and advocacy of the literary arts the Virginia Writers Club, Appalachian Authors Guild's parent organization, awards one college scholarship to a Virginia resident each academic year. This year, the Virginia Writers Club will award a college scholarship in the amount of $500. Click here for award application details.

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transpVirginia Highlands Festival

transpAbingdon, Virginia

transpJuly 28, 2012 - August 12, 2012

Again this year Appalachian Authors Guild will have an authors booth as part of the Virginia Highlands Festival. However, changes have had to be made in order to streamline the process of scheduling authors. Requests for days are now being accepted. Please click here, read instructions, fill out the request form and mail with check payable to AAG. Changes had to be made because of a willing coordinator's limited time due to increased life and work events.


Writing Contest

AAG is participating in VWC's Golden Nib writing contest this year and hope Guild members will consider entering. Participants in this writing contest must be a member of the Appalachian Authors Guild and the Virginia Writers Club.

Full submission and formatting rules are on the Virginia Writers Club website. Remember submission is made to Chapters first. The AAG Board has secured an outside judge to choose the winning AAG entries to be sent on to the VWC.

Please mark all entries in the upper right corner of the first page with the category of Fiction, Nonfiction, or Poetry. THE DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT OF CHAPTER ENTRIES: JULY 1, 2012

All entries should be mailed to:
CONTEST ENTRY - (FICTION)(NONFICTION) OR (POETRY)
APPALACHIAN AUTHORS GUILD
P.O. BOX 803
ABINGDON VA 24212-0803