In the very first installment of our minisode series, Poetry Corner,  Kendra Winchester is joined by special guest Emma Galloway Stephens.

GUEST INFO

Emma Galloway Stephens is a professor of English and creative writing with an MFA from Converse University. Her poems have been published in Catfish Stew (the annual anthology of the South Carolina Writer’s Association) and The Windhover, and will appear in the upcoming issue of The Nature of Things. You can find her on twitter as @TheEmmaDoodle.

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In this month’s episode, we’re talking about books for Pride Month! Host Kendra Winchester is joined by special guests Willie Edward Taylor Carver Jr. and Zane McNeill.

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Things Mentioned

• Stacy Jane Grover ft on Ep. 3
• Neema Avashia ft on Ep. 4
• Instagram Live Show with the Contributors to Y’all Means All

Books Mentioned

Guest Info

Willie Edward Taylor Carver Jr.
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Zane McNeill
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In this month’s episode, Kendra Winchester delves into the world of poetry. She’s joined by special guests Bernard Clay and Lisa Kwong.

You can find the full show notes on Read Appalachia's website.

Things Mentioned

• “8 Affrilachian Poetry Collections for Your TBR” (Book Riot)
• “8 More Affrilachian Poetry Collections for Your TBR” (Book Riot)
• Affrilachian Poets Website
• Interview with Bernard Clay for 100 Days in Appalachia

Books Mentioned

• English Lit by Bernard Clay
• Becoming AppalAsian by Lisa Kwong
• Perfect Black by Crystal Wilkinson
• Deifying a Total Darkness by Upfromsumdirt
• Horsepower by Joy Priest
• Masked Man, Black by Frank X Walker
• Many-Storied House by George Ella Lyon

Guest Info

Bernard Clay
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Lisa Kwong
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Kendra Winchester discusses the challenges audiobook narrators face when performing Appalachian dialects. She’s joined by special guests Monica Brashears, Jeanette Illidge, Idra Novey, and Christina Delaine.

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Things Mentioned

• “Better Than Nothing? Exploring the Limitations of AI-audiobooks from a Disabled Person’s Perspective” (Book Riot)
• “10 Audiobook Narrators You Need to Follow on TikTok” (Book Riot)
• “We Need to Stop Asking the Question, Do Audiobooks Count as Reading?” (Book Riot)
• Ronnie Butler Jr’s TikTok
• “Novelist Idra Novey on the Places That Made Her” (Belt Magazine)

Books Mentioned

GUESTS
Monica Brashears
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Jeannette Illidge
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Idra Novey
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Christina Delaine
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Welcome to our special crossover episode for Appalachian Bookshelf, a joint project between Read Appalachia and Appodlachia.

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Things Mentioned

• Interview with Barbara Kingsolver on the Australian podcast The Book Show: “Barbara Kingsolver finds the hillbilly in Charles Dickens”
• Appodlachia’s Episode about the Foster Care System
• Foster (documentary)
• Not Your Average IV User (podcast)

Books Mentioned

• David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
• Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
• The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

Discussion Questions

• What are your initial thoughts on the book?
• What are your initial thoughts on Demon as a narrator?
• What did we think of the times when Kingsolver “steps in”, as it were?
  • What are your feelings on Barbara Kingsolver’s discussion of the word “hillbilly” starting on page 68?
• What are your thoughts on the portrayal of social workers and foster care portrayed in the book?
• We have allread different nonfiction books about the opioid crisis in Appalachia. What do we think of the portrayal of addiction and recovery in this novel?
• Now that we have discussed the book, who do you think this book is for?
• Would you recommend this book?

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In the fourth episode of Read Appalachia, host Kendra Winchester examines the question, what is the future of Appalachian memoir in a post-Hillbilly Elegy world? Special guests Neema Avashia and Shawna Kay Rodenberg discuss their memoirs and the importance of pushing back against JD Vance’s problematic narrative.

You can find the full show notes over on Read Appalachia's website.

Things Mentioned

• Photo of My New Sunroom
• “Hillbillies Need No Elegy” by Meredith McCarroll (Bitter Southerner)
• “Ep. 6 Hillbillies Need No Elegy” (The Bitter Southerner Podcast)
• Bitter Southerner Store
• Hill & Holler
• Interview with Meredith McCarroll (Reading Women)
• Interview with Elizabeth Catte (Reading Women)

Books Mentioned

Guest Info

Neema Avashia: Twitter | Instagram | Website
Shawna Kay Rodenberg: Twitter | Instagram | Website

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In the third episode of Read Appalachia, host Kendra Winchester asks, what is the future of Appalachian Literature? To investigate, she talks to authors and editors of Appalachian Futures, an initiative from the University of Kentucky Press, that features Black, Native, LGBTQ+ writers, and other writers of marginalized identities. Kendra is joined by special guests Stacy Jane Grover, the author of the forthcoming Tar Hollow Trans: Essays, and her editor Abby Freeland. Plus, Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle returns to discuss her role as an editor in the Appalachian Futures series.

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Things Mentioned

• University of Kentucky Press
  • Appalachian Futures Series
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Books Mentioned

Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle

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Stacy Jane Grover

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Abby Freeland

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In the second episode of Read Appalachia, host Kendra Winchester poses the question, where does Appalachian Literature come from? The learn the answer, Kendra talks to Derek Krissoff, the Director of West Virginia University Press, and Meg Reid, the Directer of Hub City Press.

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Things Mentioned

• West Virginia University Press
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• Hub City Press
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• Belt Publishing
• University of Kentucky Press
• Blair

Books Mentioned


Guest Info

Derek Krissoff is director at West Virginia University Press and has previously worked at the university presses at Georgia and Nebraska.

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Meg Reid is the Director of Hub City Press in Spartanburg, South Carolina, where she finds and champions new and overlooked voices from the American South, including Carter Sickels, Drew Lanham, Ashley M. Jones, and Anjali Enjeti. An editor and book designer, her essays have appeared online in outlets like DIAGRAM, Oxford American, and The Rumpus. She holds an MFA in Nonfiction from the University of North Carolina Wilmington, where she served as Assistant Editor of the literary magazine, Ecotone, and worked for the literary imprint Lookout Books.

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In the debut episode of Read Appalachia, host Kendra Winchester discusses one of our most frequently asked questions.  Joining her this week are special guests and Appalachian writers Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle and Melissa Helton. 

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Things Mentioned

• Appalachian Bookshelf
• Hindman Settlement School

List of Books Mentioned


Guest Info

Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle

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Melissa Helton 

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In this special preview episode of Read Appalachia, Kendra Winchester shares what listeners can expect for this season of the show. Plus, Kendra and special guest Amanda Page chat about their love of their hometown—Portsmouth, Ohio—and what it’s like being from Appalachian Ohio.

Things Mentioned

• Peerless City documentary

Books Mentioned

• The Columbus Anthology edited by Amanda Page
• To Live Here, You Have to Fight: How Women Led Appalachian Movements for Social Justice by Jessica Wilkerson
• Lost Mountain: A Year in the Vanishing Wilderness Radical Strip Mining and the Devastation of Appalachia by Erik Reece
• Stay and Fight by Madeline Ffitch
• Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opioid Epidemic by Sam Quinones

Amanda Page is a Columbus-based writer from southern Ohio. Her work appears in Belt Magazine, The Daily Yonder, 100 Days in Appalachia, Literary Hub, and YES! Magazine. She is the editor of The Columbus Anthology from Belt Publishing and The Ohio State University Press, and creator of Packard’s Columbus, a walking tour of Frank Packard architecture in downtown Columbus, Ohio. Her essay, “The Packard Presence in Columbus, Ohio,” about developing the tour, is featured in the anthology Midwest Architecture Journeys from Belt Publishing. Page is the Founding Director of Scioto Literary, a nonprofit that supports writers and storytellers in Scioto and surrounding counties in the tri-state region of Ohio, Kentucky, and West Virginia. With David Bernabo, Page is co-director of Peerless City, an award-winning documentary that examines the rise, decline (and rise) of economic prosperity in Portsmouth, Ohio through the lens of three distinct slogans adopted by the city over two centuries.

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