The 30th Anniversary Anthology of Blue Ridge Writers 1991-2021: 

To commemorate the 30th anniversary of the founding of Blue Ridge Writers, The 30th Anniversary Anthology of Blue Ridge Writers 1919-2021 has been published in three versions: Color ($24); Black & White ($5.25); and Kindle ($0.99). 

Thanks to the 24 author contributors to the anthology and to the Blue Ridge Anthology Committee for your help on this two-year project:  Morgan Armstrong, Carol Cutler, Warren Groeger, Dory Hulse, Brenda Morris, and Lynn Young. (Former members were Pat Alderman, Joy Krystosek, Louise Mitchell, John Nicolay, and Rosanne Vrugtman.)

The 30th Anniversary Anthology of Blue Ridge Writers was released 12/15/2020 and can be purchased at Amazon.com. 

 Cindy L. Freeman:  After Rain to be released 1/15/2021 by High Tide Publications

 J. Thomas Brown:  Driving With Poppi: A Patremoir to be released 1/12/2021 by IngramSpark/Fenghuang Publishing

 Katherine Gotthardt:  D.C. Ekphrastic: Crisis of Faith was released 12/16/2020 by ATW Publishing

 Brenda Gates Spielman:  Lost Sun was released 12/01/2020 by Blue-Eyed Puffer Fish Publishing

 James Kendley:  The Wine Ghost was released 11/30/2020 and is available at Amazon.com

 Pamela K. Kinney:  "Dementia," a horror poem, was published in the 11/16/2020 edition of the Horror Writers Association's Poetry Showcase VII. 

 The 30th Anniversary Anthology of Blue Ridge Writers was released 12/15/2020 and can be purchased at Amazon.com. 

 To commemorate the 30th anniversary of the founding of Blue Ridge Writers, the 30th Anniversary Anthology of Blue Ridge Writers 1919-2021 has been published in three versions: Color ($24); Black & White ($5.25); and Kindle ($0.99). 

Thanks to the 24 author contributors to the anthology and to the Blue Ridge Anthology Committee for your help on this two-year project:  Morgan Armstrong, Carol Cutler, Warren Groeger, Dory Hulse, Brenda Morris, and Lynn Young. (Former members were Pat Alderman, Joy Krystosek, Louise Mitchell, John Nicolay, and Rosanne Vrugtman.)

 Musau WaKabongo:  Ammon's Mukanda wa Nomba, Book of Numbers, Livre de Numbres; Published via Amazon; Released 10/8/2020.  

 Patsy Anne Bickerstaff:  Images at Christmas; Published by Wider Perspectives Press; Released 10/15/2020.

 Pamela K. Kinney: Retro Horror; Published by Nightmare Press; Released 10/12/2020.

 Pamela K. Kinney:  "A Trick, No Treat" in Issue 51 of Sirens Call Publications Halloween 2020 eZine; Released 10/28/2020 

 Patti Gaustad Procopi:  Please...Tell Me More; Published by Lavender Press, an imprint of Blue Fortune Enterprises; To be released 11/20/2020.  

Linda Hoagland has been busy! Following is a list of accomplishments within the last few months: 

• October (Fall), 2020 – Front Porch – A Poem – “Really”
• September 3, 2020 – Bluefield State College – Certificate of Appreciation – For Sharing Her Thoughts about Her Literary Works
• July/August 2020 – Star Poets – A Poem – “Always Alone” – First Place
• July/August 2020 – Star Poets – A Poem – “The Ellen Tales”
• July/August 2020 – Star Poets – A Poem – “Pinky Swear”
• July/August 2020 – Northern Stars – A Poem – “Rejection” - First Place
• July/August 2020 – Northern Stars – A Poem – “Oops!” – First Honorable Mention
• July/August 2020 – Northern Stars – A Poem – “So Fine”
• July 2020 – Appalachian Authors Guild Golden Nib (Local) – Poetry – “The Cup” – Third Place
• July 2020 – Appalachian Authors Guild Golden Nib (Local) – Nonfiction – “The Dare” – Third Place
• July 2020 – Appalachian Authors Guild Golden Nib (Local) – Fiction – “Spring Forward” - Third Place
• Summer 2020 – Chautauqua Festival Creative Writing Awards - Short Story – ‘Living Like a Pig” – First Place
• Summer 2020 – Chautauqua Festival Creative Writing Awards – Essay – “Shameful Gyrations” – First Place
• Summer 2020 – Chautauqua Festival Creative Writing Awards – Poetry – “The Cup” – First Place
• Spring 2020 – The Bluestone Review – “That Was Close”
• Summer 2020 – Front Porch – “Blend In”
• June 2020 – Blue Ridge Writers “The Memoir” Vol 2 Number 2 – “What Was That?”
• May/June 2020 – Star Poets – A Poem – “Mowing the Grass” – First Honorable Mention
• May/June 2020 – Star Poets – A Poem – “A Sign from Sonny”
• May/June 2020 – Star Poets – A Poem – “Then There Was None”
• May/June 2020 – Northern Stars – A Poem –“The Toolbox” – First Honorable Mention
• May/June 2020 – Northern Stars – A Poem – “Homebound”
• May/June 2020 – Northern Stars – A Poem – “Waste or Waist

CONGRATULATIONS LINDA! 

Sharon K. Krasny:  Iceman Awakens; Release date of 11/14/2020; Published by Koehler Books

Ed Taylor:  Tim's Spirit Geronimo O'Brian; Released 9/24/2020; Published by KDP

This is a FREE event. However, to attend, please contact Bronwen  at bronwenchisholm@comcast.net to obtain the link and be placed on the admittance list.

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 Two editions of the annual Skyline (the seventh and eighth) anthology of prose and poetry were recently published, in both paperback and e-book form, to celebrate the 30th anniversary (2021) of the Blue Ridge Writers chapter of the VWC. The Skyline anthologies are dedicated to showcasing Central Virginia writers, both in fiction and nonfiction prose and in poetry.

These anthologies, like the four biennial Blue Ridge Anthology collections that preceded the Skyline anthologies, have at their base the placing works in the annual juried writing contest of the Blue Ridge Writers chapter of the Virginia Writers Club. These anthologies aren’t sponsored or sanctioned by the BRW; publications permissions were directly arranged with the authors, but Skyline holds the most complete archives of the BRW annual contest and, through Skyline and its predecessor, The Blue Ridge Anthology, has published the contest placers for the past fifteen years.  

To celebrate the placing authors in the BRW writing contest over the last fifteen years, the length of time that records are available, and to mark the thirtieth anniversary of the central Virginia club, the 2020 and 2021 editions of Skyline are dedicated to republishing placing works in the contest during that period.

Skyline 2020(https://www.amazon.com/Skyline-2020-Anthology-Virginia-Anthologies/dp/0995387354/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1598500589&sr=1-1)

Skyline 2021(https://www.amazon.com/Skyline-2021-Central-Virginia-Anthologies/dp/B08DSTHQV2/ref=pd_sim_14_1/139-7941558-2030658?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B08DSTHQV2&pd_rd_r=53bbc3d3-a7d2-4843-a3f4-ad20940d88a8&pd_rd_w=5OYhc&pd_rd_wg=jVuGa&pf_rd_p=e2ec6e52-b3cf-46fd-9026-eedc9747371d&pf_rd_r=DGP9R7PPN7YPY6ADGGER&psc=1&refRID=DGP9R7PPN7YPY6ADGGER)

 Philip Jay Marlin:  The Cargo was published by Novum Publishing, released July 1, 2020

Elizabeth Spencer Spragins:  Spragins' microchapbook "Song Feathers" has been published by the Origami Poems Project. https://www.origamipoems.com/poets/424-elizabeth-spencer-spragins

Her poem, "Curse of the Canyon," appears in the June 2020 issue of ParABnormal Magazine. Her poems "Songs of the Southern Rim" and "Unrest" are featured in the Summer 2020 issue of Time of Singing.