Dirt Songs provides a uniquely intimate look at landscape and family generated from within Appalachia, recognizing that one story cannot accurately represent a region or its people.
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Asides by George Singleton
“George Singleton is a very funny man…He could write about a tootsie roll and keep me reading. He can enter a room, breathe in the air, breathe out a story.”
No Last Words by Tara Kelly
“The story begins in glamour, soars through disappointment, and ends in love. No Last Words will enchant you.”
And Dogs to Chase Them by Ray Trotter
“These are everyday, mostly blue-collar, characters, putting up good fights, skeptical of their situations, and true to their beliefs.”
The Act of Contrition & Other Stories by Joseph Bathanti
“The stories in this collection continue a long career that has found Bathanti plumbing the depths of the human heart and untangling mystery all the while.”
The Legible Element by Ralph Sneeden
“Ralph Sneeden’s astonishing book of water-borne essays that explore what it means to immerse oneself in nature while also raising a family and living a life in literature.”
Murmurations by Andrea Rinard
In Murmurations, Rinard introduces an eclectic array of women attempting to claim their own space and to find meaning in the extraordinary mundanity of moments large and small.
Outside the Frame by Catherine Pritchard Childress
“These poems disrupt, they trouble patriarchal waters, and they ask two things: What really happens to women who dissent, and are you strong enough to wonder?”
The EastOver Anthology of Rural Stories, 2023: Writers of Color
A collection of short fiction from deep in the heart of America’s rural spaces that subverts, surprises, and complicates our ideas and expectations.