WVW Conference Vidcasts: Appalachian Inquisition Panel

Continuing our vidcast series to whet appetites for the 2011 WV Writers Summer Conference, we present part 1 of the Appalachian Inquisition Panel conducted at the 2010 WVW Summer Conference. The panel is MCed by our very own president Cat Pleska. Featured in the panel are WV Poet Laureate Irene McKinney, Denise Giardina, filmmaker Daniel Boyd, poet Norman Jordan, poet Kirk Judd, writer Gretchen Moran Laskas and writer Tim Poland.

You can see all 7 parts of the video at our YouTube channel.

Cat Pleska Christmas Radio Essay

WVW President Cat Pleska has a new radio essay on WV Public Radio, just in time for Christmas.

It's called Reflections on an Aluminum Christmas Tree. Hear it and read it at the link.

WVW Podcast: Lee Maynard Recorded Live Reading

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 Hallucinations in an Imagined Life, published by West Virginia University Press.

Be sure to also check out Episodes 21 and 22 for parts 1 and 2 of our podcast of the conversation between Lee and Cat Pleska.

Get the Lee Maynard Recorded Live Reading HERE.

Podcast Episode 21: A conversation with Lee Maynard

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: Scattershots and Hallucinations in an Imagined Life, published by West Virginia University Press.


As those of you who've attended Lee's workshops at previous WV Writers Summer Conferences well know, he's an extremely talented writer who specializes in gut-level writing. This week's part of the conversation explores some of that as well as his writing discipline, his philosophy on truth in memoir vs. storytelling and his feelings about West Virginia.

Hear it for yourself at our PODCAST PAGE.