Nov 1, 2021
Sad news to report for the West Virginia Writers family. WVW co-founder Kirk Judd has reported on Facebook that Pops Walker died on October 29, at his home in Luray, Virginia, surrounded by friends and family. Pops was a dear friend of West Virginia Writers, myself,...
Jul 26, 2017
Music They came for the music They were not a collection of strangers They were not strangers at all, A small gathering made known to each other Returning again and again Over the years Returning through their love for each other And by their yearning for the...
Dec 1, 2015
Nigh on a decade ago, Terry McNemar, our former president who recently passed away, began an annual gift guide for books by West Virginia authors. The last time we ran one on this blog, however, was 2011. With his passing this year, we felt it was time to...
Dec 11, 2009
Our 6th WVW Podcast Bonus Show is now online. It features a recorded live reading from Lee Maynard's appearance at the WV Book Festival, in October. Mr. Maynard reads the first chapter of his new novel-in-memoir-form The Pale Light of Sunset: Scattershots and...
Nov 20, 2009
Episode 21 of the WVW Podcast is now available, featuring a conversation between WV Writers 1st Vice President Cat Pleska and Lee Maynard, author of the book Crum, its followup Screaming with the Cannibals and the new novel-in-memoir-form The Pale Light of Sunset:...
