• 10/05/2020 7:29 PM | Joanne Liggan (Administrator)

    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


  • 09/14/2020 7:04 PM | Joanne Liggan (Administrator)

    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.

  • 08/27/2020 9:34 AM | Joanne Liggan (Administrator)

     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)


  • 08/04/2020 10:50 AM | Joanne Liggan (Administrator)

    image35 Philip Jay MarlinThe Cargo was published by Novum Publishing, released July 1, 2020

  • 08/04/2020 10:42 AM | Joanne Liggan (Administrator)

    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.

  • 07/06/2020 11:54 AM | Joanne Liggan (Administrator)

    JAMIE K. REASER received the Nautilus Book Award gold medal in lyrical prose for RidgeLines: A View of Nature and Human Nature (Talking Waters Press, 2019) and Nautilus Book Award silver in poetry for Conversations with Mary: Words of Attention and Devotion (Talking Waters Press, 2019)  

    ELIZABETH SPENCER SPRAGINS' poem "The Auction Block" appears in the June 17 issue of "New Verse News":  https//newversenews.blogspot.com/.  "What Trees Remember" appears on page 107 of the Summer 2020 issue of "Orchards Poetry Journal":  https://orchardspoetrycom.files.wordpress.com/2020/06/orchards-june-16-online-journal.pdf.  The Spring 2020 issue of "Yellow Arrow Journal" includes three of Spragins' tanka under the title "Journeys." Also, three of her short poems ("Before Sunrise," "Mounted on the Mist," and "Somnolence") appear in the June 5 edition of "Page & Spine."  http://pagespineficshowcase.com/elizabeth-spencer-spragins.html.

    CONGRATULATIONS TO THESE TWO WRITERS!






  • 07/06/2020 11:41 AM | Joanne Liggan (Administrator)

    The Meter's Always Running: A Haunted City Mystery by [C.A. Rowland] CAROLYN ROWLANDThe Meter's Always Running; released   6/9/2020 by Shadow Dance Publishing 




     CAROLYN ROWLANDAmerica 2020 Riverside Writers; released   4/29/2020 by Riverside Writers




    Runaway Blues by [Pete Fanning] PETE FANNING:  Runaway Blues; to be released 7/7/2020 by   Immortal-Works Press




  • 06/16/2020 2:19 PM | Joanne Liggan (Administrator)

    I first must apologize to Pamela K. Kinney and PMH Atwater for the delay in announcing their book releases. 

    Maverick Heart by [Pamela K. Kinney] Pamela K. Kinney:  Maverick Heart, released 10/31/2019 by   Dreampunk Press.




     PMH Atwater:  Animal Lights Series of Children's Books,   released 10/30/2019.




    H’Ilgraith Jane Renfro:  H'llgraith, released 2/28/2020 by   Koehlerbooks.





    Haunted Surry to Suffolk: Spooky Locations Along Routes 10 and 460 by [Pamela K. Kinney] Pamela K. Kinney:  Haunted Surry to Suffolk: Spooky Locations   Along Routes 10 and 460, released 4/5/2020 by Anubis Press.





    The Purger.jpg Charles Tabb:  The Purger: Book 2 of the Detective Tony   Pantera Series, released 6/5/2020 by Gifted Time Books.

  • 06/16/2020 1:57 PM | Joanne Liggan (Administrator)

    Several central Virginia writers who are VWC members are in the new publication Skyline 2020 (Olivia Stowe, ed.) by Cyberworld Publishing:

    Prose fiction:
    Phyllis Duncan, Gary Kessler, Elaine Ruggieri, BA Morris, Erin Newton Wells

    Poetry:
     G.W. Wayne, Phyllis Duncan, Gary Kessler, Joy Merritt Krystosek, Erin N. Wells

    Nonfiction:
    Gary Kessler, Joy M. Krystosek, BA Morris, Roger Tolle, G.W. Wayne, Erin N. Wells

    Congratulations to these writers!

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