J. Thomas Brown will read from his novel, The Land of Three Houses, which is inspired by true events. His boyhood home in the Tohickon Valley, rich in history, was taken by eminent domain and demolished. The entire Tohickon Valley, along with farms, homes, mills, and settlers’ graves, was denuded and flooded to create Nockamixon State Park and Lake Nockamixon. Much of the story is woven around three strong women of the 1790s, including Madam Germaine de Staèl, an Enlightenment thinker and salonnière whose pen and wit caused Napoleon to ban her from Paris. The reading will be at the Barnes & Noble at Chesterfield Towne Center in Midlothian, VA on March 28, 2020 at 3:00pm. For more information, go to https://stores.barnesandnoble.com/event/9780062121434-0

Sara Robinson's recently released poetry book, Needville, is now a play. Adapted into a 2-act play, the voices of those affected by coal mining in SW Virginia come to life in recitations and readings of the poems. First performance is on March 4, 2020; 7:30PM at The Colonnades 2600 Barracks Rd. C'ville. Free and open to public. Seating is first-come, first-serve.

Lynn H. Wyvill:  Quiet Wisdom; Released 8/21/2019

 

 

Sara Robinson:  Needville; Published by Cedar Creek Publishing; Released 10/16/2019

 

 

Pamela K. Kinney:  Maverick Heart;  Dreampurk Press;  Released 10/31/2019

 

 

 Sonja McGiboney:  Jazzy Colors;

Released August 15, 2019 

 

 

 Sonja McGiboney:  Jazzy Explores Smithfield, Virginia;

Released August 15, 2019 

The Blue Ridge Writers are hosting a Writers Retreat on Saturday, October 26 beginning at 1:00 pm. It will be a casual, loosely-planned gathering to enjoy the Blue Ridge in autumn with other members. An idyllic setting for socializing, feasting, and writing and sharing. BRW Members can bring a guest and potential new BRW Members are welcome. For more information, go to the Blue Ridge Writers tab under "Chapters" and click on the drop-down tab for the retreat. 

 Pamela K. Kinney:  Virginia's Haunted Historic Triangle;  Williamsburg, Yorktown, Jamestown, & Other Haunted Locations; 2nd Edition.

Released 7/28/2019   Publisher:  Schiffer Publishing

 

 

 

 Kari Kilgore:  Fighting the Storm: Book Four of the Storms of Future Past Series 

 Released 6/22/2019        Publisher:  Spiral Publishing, Ltd.

  

Write By the Rails presents the 2019 Fall Writers Workshop to be held October 12, 2019 from 10:15 - 4:00 at Trinity Episcopal in Manassas, VA.

For more information visit the website at https://wbtr.org/

 

 Eve Monk:  Twenty-Three Years - Childhood, War, Escape 

Released 5/17/2019, Published by Amazon

 

 

 

 

 

 Madelyn Rohrere:  Bert the Owl Bat 

Released 8/20/2019 

P.M.H. ATWATER, L.H.D.:  The Forever Angels Near-Death Experiences in Childhood and Their Lifelong Impact; Published by Inner Traditions; Release date: September 2019

 

 

 

 

BRENT ALLEN BOHN:  Hands Faster Than Lightning; Gatekeeper Press; Published May 27, 2019

 

 

 

 

 

JAMES F. GAINES:  “Bluebirds” and “Misnamed” was published in Avocet, A Jounal of Nature Poetry; Published June 1, 2019

 

ELIZABETH SPENCER SPRAGINS:  With No Bridle for the Breeze: Ungrounded Verse;  Publisher: Shanti Arts; Released June 2019

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Artemis Journal 2019 is pleased to announce the date of our book launch on June 7, 2019, at the Roanoke Taubman Museum of Art. To highlight program there will be a special dance performance, “Poetry in Motion,” interpreting selected poems from our journal by the Southwest Virginia Ballet. This is a fund raiser for Artemis and the Taubman Museum. The journals will be released and available for sale at the launch.

Click here to view press release.