As seen below Lost State writers were active in 2007. We anticipate that 2008 will be equally busy and productive for members of the Guild. We have interesting and informative monthly meetings on the first Thursday of each month, alternating between the three cities of Kingsport, Johnson City, and Bristol. Only the Bristol meeting is in the evening, meeting presently at Ryan's on Euclid Avenue in front of Food City at 5:30pm. In Kingsport the Guild meets at Amato's off Eastman Road near Stone Drive at 11:30am and at Golden Corral in Johnson City across from Wal-Mart on Brown's Mill Road, also at 11:30am. Several speakers are already scheduled during 2008.
In February, Joe Tennis spoke to the group. He told the history of and some of the stories from his his new book.
Publisher Pete Dykes will be speaking to the Guild at the lunch meeting in Kingsport at Amato's in March.
Mon., August 6 - Creative Writing Day - 9 - 4 - Readings and Workshops, Martha Washington Inn, afternoon workshops, $10 each.
We’re coming down for sure! We’ll be in Johnson City Friday August 17th (arriving late Thursday.) And I have a signing all set up at Barnes & Noble for Saturday August 18th from 1-3pm. I hope you can be there?
I sold another story to Hitchcock! This one was a long shot, I thought. It’s a story I collaborated on with a guy in the Netherlands. That’s not as strange as it sounds. He’s the president of the Short Mystery Fiction Society and I’m the vice president, so we’re acquainted over the internet. I wasn’t sure I wanted to do a collaboration, but it ended up being a lot of fun. And satisfying, too, with the sale. This is his first real fiction sale, certainly the first to a major publisher, so he’s tickled pink.
Several Lost State writers who are also members of sister organization Appalachian Authors Guild, will take part again this year in the Writers on the Green next to Barter Theater in Abingdon, Virginia. As part of one of Virginia's premier summer festivals, the Virginia Highlands Festival, July 28-Aug 12, 2007, in Abingdon, Virginia, Writers on the Green is a coveted venue, with a waiting list of writers who wish to participate. Sylvia Nickels, Mary Ann Artrip, Stan Grocki, Darrell Fleming, Addie Davis and Gary Varner will be signing and selling their books at the event.
On Saturday June 29, 2007 Carol Jackson, Mary Ann Artrip, Stan Grocki, David Gouldthorpe and Sylvia Nickels will be signing and selling their books under a tent in Mill Springs Park, downtown Jonesborough, Tennessee's oldest town, as part of the town's annual celebration which attracts thousands of visitors from all over the world.
Lost State member Darrell Fleming attended a military function in Oak Ridge, Tennessee the weekend of June 16-17. Sales of his book, Family, Friends and War Heroes, Reflections of World War II were very good. Way to go, Darrell!
Just released in June is Lucinda's Mountain, a novel by new Lost State member Addie Davis. Addie has numerous booksignings already scheduled. She will be at the Crab Orchard Museum in Tazewell, Virginia on July 4 and at the Virginia Buchanan County Fair and Heritage Day July 11-13, 2007.
On May 26, 2007 Sylvia and Mary Ann set up their booksigning tables in Abingdon for the Plumb Alley Day festival. The day was beautiful and they enjoyed watching festival-goers tramping up and down the sidewalk. Many stopped to chat and even bought a few books.
Mary Ann had the recent opportunity to do readings of excerpts from her books at the Carter County library and the Elizabethton Lions Club. Also her publisher, Porttown Publishing will be re-issuing Mary Ann's award-winning book, Remember Me With Love. Surrey Square, her third published mystery novel,was an IPPY award winner for 2006 and was nominated as Book of the Year for the Appalachian Writers Association.
During the Christmas season Sylvia and Mary Ann enjoyed participating in the Mistletoe Market in Abingdon, VA, which
takes place each year at the SW Virginia Higher Education Center, sponsored by the Wm. King Regional Arts Center.
November essay contest winner!
Why I'm Glad I'm a Writer
coolstuff4writers
click the link, on the website click Features and in the drop down menu click Contests to find DJ's essay.
Green River Writers 2006 poetry competition
Make Love Not War - 1970's
1st place in Category 9, Levity with Brevity (Humorous Poetry)
Breathing on Empty
1st Honorable Mention, Mary Catherine Kelley Award
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