Links
For Readers and Writers

Recommended Books on Writing

Women’s National Book Association, Nashville Chapter

Southern Festival of Books

Duke Writers Workshop

John C. Campbell Folk School

Hindman Settlement School, Appalachian Writers Workshop

Tennessee Young Writers Workshop

North Carolina Writers Network

Alabama Writers Conclave

Tennessee Mountain Writers

Tennessee Writers Alliance

Poets & Writers Magazine

Conference on Southern Literature

Chattanooga Festival of Writers

Southern Spaces

Academy of American Poets

Poetry from the Appalachians

Poetry Daily

More poetry links

Tennessee Authors

Appalachian Writers Association

Book Sense Picks

Teen Writing

Mental Health

National Alliance on Mental Illness

MentalWellness.com

HealthyPlace.com

Art

Raw Vision Galleries

The Ginger Young Gallery: Self-Taught Art

ArtBurt.com

The Art Company

Barbara Archer Gallery

Other Sites of Interest

New Opportunity School for Women

Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University

Center for the Study of the American South

Center for Southern Culture

Center for Appalachian Studies

Appalshop

Recommended Authors

Lee Smith

Clyde Edgerton

Allan Gurganus

Judy Goldman

Pamela Duncan

Lynn York

Silas House

Barbara Kingsolver

Jane Hicks

Dana Wildsmith

Robert Morgan

Harry Crews

Larry Brown

Rita Dove

Ted Kooser

Nikki Giovanni

Wendell Berry

Kathryn Stripling Byer

Isabel Zuber

Geraldine Brooks

Edward P. Jones

Kaye Gibbons

Jaki Shelton Green

Bobby Ann Mason

Denise Giardina

Other Recommened Authors
These authors do not to my knowledge have a webpage or a site with updated information. So I’m listing their names and a title or two to get you started.

Michael Parker, If You Want Me To Stay

Louis Nordan, Sharpshooter Blues, Wolf Whistle

AJ Verdelle, The Good Negress

Toni Morrison, Song of Soloman, Beloved

Abigail DeWitt, Lili

Michael Lee West, Mad Girls In Love, She Flew The Coop

Virginia Holman, Rescuing Patty Hearst: Memories from a Decade Gone Mad

Jill McCorkle, Final Vinyl Days, Creatures of Habit

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