tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9355578775659274842024-03-14T10:11:34.725-04:00Ann PancakeUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-935557877565927484.post-50078451012949260192007-05-06T14:16:00.004-04:002023-09-01T10:59:07.700-04:00Welcome<span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>Highlights</i><br />
<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">* WV Living included Ann in their <a href="https://wvliving.com/ann-pancake-a-2021-west-virginia-wonder-woman/">Wonder Women</a> feature</span></span><div><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif" style="font-family: helvetica;">* Taught at WVU 2028-2023</span><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">* Gave a talk, “Double Vision,” at the WVU Downtown Library.</span><br />
<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">* Served as Writer-In-Residence at the Humanities Center at WVU from 2019-2022.</span><br />
<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">* Inducted into the Fellowship of Southern Writers.</span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">* WVU gave Ann an honorary degree May, 2018.</span><br />
<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif"><i>* <a href="http://annpancake.blogspot.com/2007/03/published-works.html" target="_blank">Strange as This Weather Has Been</a></i> noted in Huffington Post's <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/a-literary-road-trip-through-america_us_59948091e4b0d0d2cc839bc3" target="_blank">24 Books That Will Help You Understand America</a>...</span><br />
<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">* ...And in Lithub's <a href="http://lithub.com/100-books-across-america-fiction-and-nonfiction-for-every-state-in-the-union/" target="_blank">100 Books Across America</a>.</span><br />
<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">* Great reception of <i>Letter to West Virginia</i>. <a href="https://souvenir-lit.squarespace.com/ann-pancake" target="_blank">Read it here</a>.</span><br />
<span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">* Received the Distinguished Writer-in-Residence position at University of Hawaii, Manoa for the Spring 2017 semester.</span><br /><span face=""arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif">* “Me and My Daddy Listen to Bob Marley” appears in the new anthology of West Virginia writers, <i><a href="http://wvupressonline.com/node/665" target="_blank">Eyes Glowing at the Edge of the Woods</a></i>, edited by Laura Long and Doug Van Gundy, published by WVU Press.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Short stories</span><br />
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and My Daddy Listen to Bob</i><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><i style="font-size: 12pt;">Marley</i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">,
a collection of eleven astonishing novellas and short stories, characters intensely connected to their
land</span><span face=""calibri" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">—</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">sometimes through love, sometimes through hate</span><span face=""calibri" , "sans-serif"" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%;">—</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">experience
brokenness and loss, redemption and revelation, often through their
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<span>"Do you see the ecstatic mix of beautiful tumbling words, of West Virginia dialect interjected into the narration, of imitation of the sounds of fire within the syllables of the words used to describe the fire? This is Pancake at her brawniest, not using language to tell a story, but allowing the language to become the story. " </span><a href="http://www.thestranger.com/books/features/2015/02/25/21777357/ann-pancakes-west-virginia-is-a-beautiful-terrible-place" target="_blank"><i>The Stranger</i>; see full review</a><br />
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"Pancake’s bravura tales carry the pulse of a betrayed yet beautiful place of loyalty and resilience." <a href="http://annpancake.blogspot.com/p/me-and-my-daddy-listen-to-bob-marley.html" target="_blank"><i>Booklist</i>; see full review</a><br />
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<span>*Did you know you can order books through the online consortium </span><a href="https://bookshop.org/" target="_blank">Bookshop</a>,<span> and have them shipped to you? You can!</span><br />
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* <a href="http://annpancake.blogspot.com/p/me-and-my-daddy-listen-to-bob-marley.html" style="font-size: 12pt;" target="_blank">More about the collection</a><br />
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Finalist! Oct 8: <a href="http://www.spl.org/about-the-library/library-news-releases/wsba-finalists-announced-914" target="_blank">WA State Book Award</a><br />
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<span style="font-size: 85%;"><em><i>Presentations and Residencies</i></em></span><br />
January - April 2017: Writer in Residency, <a href="https://manoa.hawaii.edu/" target="_blank">University of Hawaii</a>, HonoluluUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-935557877565927484.post-67343191705396266102007-04-21T18:20:00.001-04:002023-09-01T11:10:35.309-04:00Strange as this Weather Has Been<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgFiD2a5JVIv3Lf4J3TosOGIYmvxTs0ybHQt8ksLWzsbuGxFahRTkp-8qX9iWkjnUh0B6kEefHRGEQoigbEgReaJrWyc489TQHeFLc7IktkzRN2YPNhL0ifv7bs0xhdTGBQYRKcdy3x4I/s1600-h/StrangeAsThisWeatherHasBeenCover2.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5057100455407705506" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgFiD2a5JVIv3Lf4J3TosOGIYmvxTs0ybHQt8ksLWzsbuGxFahRTkp-8qX9iWkjnUh0B6kEefHRGEQoigbEgReaJrWyc489TQHeFLc7IktkzRN2YPNhL0ifv7bs0xhdTGBQYRKcdy3x4I/s320/StrangeAsThisWeatherHasBeenCover2.jpg" style="cursor: hand; float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" /></a> <span style="font-family: helvetica;"><em><span style="color: red;">See reviews and links to other sites below...</span></em><br />
<em>Strange As This Weather Has Been</em> features a West Virginian town in the midst of the latest coal boom, and plagued by the mountaintop removal strip mining that is ruining what is left of their mountain life. As the mine turns the mountains to dust and wastewater, workers struggle with layoffs and children find adventure in the blasted moonscape craters. And down below, the hollow’s inhabitants live with the constant threat of a black flood that could wash out their world without notice.<br />
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This story of lives suspended by danger is delivered through the perspectives of several members of one family—a couple and their four children—with a particular focus on fifteen-year-old Bant and her mother, Lace. Working at a “scab” motel, Bant becomes involved with a young miner while her mother contemplates joining the fight against the mine owners. As domestic conflicts escalate, the children are pushed more and more outside among junk from the floods and felled trees—the only nature the youngest ones have ever known. But Bant has other memories and is as curious and strong-willed as her mother. Ultimately, through her eyes, we come to discover the very real threat of destruction that looms in the landscape and in her home. Based on interviews and real events, and magnificently drawn together by Ann Pancake, the stories of these people merge and finally explode into a harrowing, yet life-affirming, conclusion.<br />
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The novel is published by <a href="http://www.shoemakerhoard.com/">Shoemaker and Hoard/Counterpoint</a>.<br />
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<span style="font-family: helvetica;"><em style="font-size: 85%;">About the cover: "</em><a href="http://www.kftc.org/our-work/canary-project/people-in-action/gaia/more-about-the-agony-of-gaia" style="font-size: 85%;"><em>The Agony of Gaia</em></a><em style="font-size: 85%;">" is a sculpture by Jeff-Chapman Crane, photographed by James Archambeault</em><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: helvetica;">If you don't have an indie bookstore near you, you can get it from <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Strange-This-Weather-Has-Been/dp/159376166X/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/104-4405143-5323139?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1189876853&sr=1-1">Amazon.com</a>.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Podcast: Hear Ann read on the acclaimed program <a href="http://www.riverandsoundreview.org/podcasts/PastPrograms.htm">A River & Sound Review</a> (Episode 13)</span></li>
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<li><em><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 85%;">Finalist, Washington State Book Award</span></em></li>
<li><em><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 85%;">Finalist, <a href="http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/mag/2008_orion_book_award_winner/">Orion Magazine 2008 Book Awards</a></span></em></li>
<li><em><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 85%;"><a href="http://www.berea.edu/appalachiancenter/weatherford/default.asp">Weatherford Award</a>--Best work of fiction/poetry about Appalachia published in 2007, Appalachian Studies Assn.</span></em></li>
<li><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="http://muse.jhu.edu/demo/appalachian_heritage/v036/36.1longsong.html"><em>Appalachian Heritage</em></a><em>--<span style="font-size: 85%;">"[The characters'] individual desires and struggles are gutsy, funny, heartbreaking, and entertainingly peculiar."</span></em> </span></li>
<li><em><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 85%;"><a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/chi-keller_column_testmar24,0,6772593.column">Chicago Tribune</a> "... filled with wisdom and fire and grace..."</span></em></li>
<li><em><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 85%;">The <a href="http://www.appvoices.org/index.php?/site/voice_archive/">Appalachian Voice</a> "...graced with original thinking, deep insight, long emotional range..."</span></em></li>
<li><em><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 85%;"><a href="http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/review/521/">Orion Magazine</a> "... Pancake’s novel is shockingly pure, like holding gold in your hands..."</span></em></li>
<li><em><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 85%;"><a href="http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=464130">The Stranger</a> ". . . the structure of a classical tragedy, a choice that is no choice: sacrifice the thing you love most, or be destroyed."</span></em></li>
<li><em><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 85%;"><a href="http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080105/FEATURES06/801050382/1010/FEATURES">Louisville Courier-Journal</a> "...a story about vision -- what we choose to see and not to see." </span></em></li>
<li><em><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 85%;">CreativeLoafing.com: Second <a href="http://charlotte.creativeloafing.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=229748">review</a> down</span></em></li>
<li><em><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 85%;">Booklist Editors' Choice 2007</span></em></li>
<li><em><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 85%;">Kirkus Review Top Ten Fiction of 2007</span></em></li>
<li><em><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 85%;"><a href="http://www.booklistonline.com/default.aspx?page=show_product&pid=2366875">Booklist's Top 10 First Novels of 2007</a></span></em></li>
<li><em><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 85%;">Interview: <a href="http://www.herald-dispatch.com/life/x379657797/">Herald-Dispatch</a>, Huntington, WV</span></em></li>
<li><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><em><span style="font-size: 85%;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/14/books/review/Pendarvis-t.html?8bu&emc=bu">New York Times Sunday Book Review</a> "... powerful, sure-footed and haunting..."</span></em><em><span style="font-size: 85%;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/21/books/review/21editors-choice.html">Editor's Choice</a></span></em></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 85%;"><em><a href="http://www.oprah.com/omagazine/Strange-As-This-Weather-Has-Been-by-Ann-Pancake-Review" target="_blank">O Magazine</a></em><em>, October 2007</em></span></li>
<li><em><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 85%;"><a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/books/333064_fallbooksintro27.html">Seattle Post-Intelligencer</a> (scroll to NW Authors) "...emergence of a major literary talent."</span></em></li>
<li><em><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 85%;"><a href="http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6471321.html?q=ann+pancake">Publisher's Weekly</a> (scroll way, way down) "...one doubts neither the characters' voices nor their places in a very complex poverty."</span></em></li>
<li><em><span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 85%;">Booklist via <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Strange-This-Weather-Has-Been/dp/159376166X/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/102-2006164-1969729?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1192235753&sr=8-1">Amazon.com</a>--Starred Review ("...evinces a poetic pathos and authentic respect for the land and the people who love it."</span></em></li>
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<span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 85%;"><em>“Ann Pancake is Appalachia’s Steinbeck . . .</em> Strange As This Weather Has Been <em>is a major achievement. Not since Harriet Arnow’s</em> The Dollmaker <em>has a writer so truly envisioned rural poverty, rural art, rural grace, but Pancake’s book is utterly contemporary . . . a thousand miles of streams filled with toxic blast while towering slurry builds to engender the next black flood, is ongoing tragedy. It is happening now, while Lace and Jimmy Make, their stalwart daughter Bant, and their sons, slow, contemplative Dane, fated, fiery Corey and the fierce youngest, Tommy, stand shoulder to shoulder with the strongest characters created in American fiction.” —Jayne Anne Phillips, author,</em> Black Tickets, Machine Dreams, and Motherkind </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 85%;"><em>“Ann Pancake has written a novel that crackles with this century’s great background white noise of loss, greed, dishonesty—but the honest complexity of both her characters and their sometimes-beloved, othertimes-estranged or forgotten landscape yields a hope which on the surface may seem unjustified, but ends up being as durable as the spark of life itself, and then some. I was greatly impressed.” —Rick Bass, author,</em> Hermit's Story</span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-935557877565927484.post-37416736720414791112007-03-09T12:59:00.001-05:002023-04-10T11:01:13.988-04:00Publications and Selected Awards<div align="left">
<strong><br /></strong><strong>Recent Publications</strong><br />
“In Such Light” - The Harvard Review, 46, Fall 2014<br />
"Rockhounds" - <i>Agni</i>, Spring 2014<br />
"Sab" - <i>Chattahoochee Review</i>, Fall/Winter 2013-14<br />
"Creative Responses to Worlds Unraveling" - <i>Georgia Review</i>, Fall 2013<br />
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<strong>Books</strong><br />
<i>- Me and My Daddy Listen to Bob Marley - Novellas and Stories</i> (<a href="http://counterpointpress.com/" target="_blank">Counterpoint Press</a>, February 2015)<br />
<em>- <a href="http://www.blogger.com/(%3Ca%20href=">Strange As This Weather Has Been</a></em> (Novel, <a href="http://www.shoemakerhoard.com/">Counterpoint Press/ Shoemaker & Hoard</a>, October 2007)<br />
- <em>Given Ground </em>(Collection of short stories; The University Press of New England, 2001.) <a href="http://www.dartmouth.edu/~upne/1-58465-118-0.html">Order directly from UPNE Press</a>.<br />
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<strong>Novel Excerpts</strong><br />
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<li>“Bant” - <em>Coal Country: Rising Up Against Mountaintop Removal Mining</em>. Ed. Shirley Stewart Burns, Mari-Lynn Evans, and Silas House. Sierra Club Books, 2009.</li>
<li>“Upstream” - <em>We All Live Downstream.</em> Ed. Jason Howard. Louisville, KY: Motes Books, 2009. 183-185.</li>
<li> “The End of the World in Slow Motion” - <em><a href="http://www.narrativemagazine.com/">Narrative</a></em>, Fall 2007.</li>
<li>“Pieces of God” - <em>Kestrel<strong>,</strong></em> Spring 2007.</li>
<li><em>“</em>Mogey<em>"</em> - <a href="http://www.hungermtn.org/">Hunger Mountain</a> ( Spring 2005): 58-70.</li>
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<strong>Short Stories</strong><br />
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<li>“Redneck Boys” - <i>Grit Lit: A Rough South Reader</i>. Ed. Tom Franklin and Brian Carpenter, Columbia, SC: The University of South Carolina Press, 2012. 313-321.</li>
<li>“Mouseskull” - <i>The Georgia Review</i> (Winter 2011): 691-710.</li>
<li>“Me and My Daddy Listen to Bob Marley” - <i>Water~Stone Review </i>13 (2010): 14-32.</li>
<li>“Arsonists” - <em>New Stories from the South: The Year’s Best, 2010.</em> Ed. Amy Hempel, Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2010. 163-180.</li>
<li>“Arsonists” - <em>The Georgia Review</em> (Summer 2009): 320-334.</li>
<li>“Said” - <em>Chautauqua </em>4 (2008): 86-90.</li>
<li>“Dog Song.” <em>The Surreal South</em>. Ed. Pinckney and Laura Benedict, Winston-Salem, NC: Press 53. October 2007.</li>
<li>“Dog Song” <em>Pushcart Prize XXIX, Best of the Small Presses</em>. Ed. Bill Henderson, Wainscott, NY: Pushcart Press, 2005. 94-114.</li>
<li>“Coop” <em>Quarterly West 58</em> (Summer 2004): 101-105.</li>
<li>“Dog Song” <em>New Stories from the South, the Best of 2004</em>. Ed. Shannon Ravenel, Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2004. 169-193.</li>
<li>“Dog Song” - <em>Shenandoah</em> 53.4 (Winter 2003): 5-26.</li>
<li>“Jolo” <em>Backcountry: Contemporary Writing in West Virginia</em>. Ed. Irene McKinney, Morgantown, WV: WVU Press, 2002. 209-223.</li>
<li>“Redneck Boys” - <em>Glimmer Train</em> 39 (Summer 2001): 105-116.</li>
<li>“Bait” - <em>The Southeast Review</em> 21.1 (Spring 2001): 64-80.</li>
<li>“Crow Season” - <em>Chattahoochee Review</em> 21.2 (Winter 2001): 93-98.</li>
<li>“Dirt” - <em>The Chariton Review</em> 26.2 (Fall 2000): 21-25.</li>
<li>“Jolo” - <em>Mid-American Review</em> 21.1 (Fall 2000): 6-22.</li>
<li>“Revival” - <i>V</i><em>irginia Quarterly Review</em> 76.4 (Autumn 2000): 713-720.</li>
<li>“Cash Crop: 1897" - <em>The Massachusetts Review</em> 40.1 (Spring 1999): 11-25.</li>
<li>“Tall Grass" - <em>Shenandoah 47.4</em> (Winter 1997): 30-32.</li>
<li>“Sang" - <em>Chattahoochee Review</em> 16.2 (Spring 1996): 51-67.</li>
<li>“Ghostless" - <em>Virginia Quarterly Review</em> 71.2 (Spring 1995): 270-79.</li>
<li>“Sister" - <em>Best of Wind</em>. Ed. Steven R. Cope and Charlie G. Hughes. Lexington, Kentucky: Wind Publications, 1994: 186-93.</li>
<li>“Wappatomaka" - <em>Antietam Review 14</em> (Spring 1994): 11-12.</li>
<li>“In the Territory" - <em>Chaminade Literary Review</em> 12-13 (1993): 140-46.</li>
<li>“Sister" - <em>Wind</em> 22.70 (1992): 54-61.</li>
<li>“Bearing Witness" - <em>Hawaii-Pacific Review 4</em> (Spring 1989): 31-40.</li>
<li>“Getting Wood" - <em>Antietam Review 9</em> (Spring 1989): 17-18.</li>
<li>“The Stillness in Stillness" - <em>Poetic Space 4.6</em> (Spring 1989): 5-6.</li>
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<strong>Creative Nonfiction</strong><br />
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<li>“Our Own Kind” - <i>Willow Springs</i> 71, Winter 2013: 34-49.</li>
<li>“Capital Realism” - <em>Short Takes: Brief Encounters With Contemporary Nonfiction</em>. Ed. Judith Kitchen. W. W. Norton, 2005. 219-226.</li>
<li>“Tough” - <em>New Millennium Writings. No. 14</em> (2004-2005): 133-144.</li>
<li>“Tough” - <em>Five Points 7.3</em> (Summer 2003).</li>
<li>“Keeping Clean in Korat" - <em>An Inn Near Kyoto</em>. Ed. C.W. Truesdale and Kathleen Coskran, Minneapolis, Minnesota: New Rivers Press, 1998. 270-283.</li>
<li>“Keeping Clean in Korat" - <em>International Quarterly 2.4</em> (Winter 1997): 43-56.</li>
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<strong>Poem</strong><br />
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<li>“Found Dogs” - <em>Shenandoah</em>.</li>
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<strong>Scholarly Articles</strong><br />
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<li>“‘Similar Outcroppings From the Same Strata’: The Synonymous Development Imagery of Appalachian Natives and Natural Resources” - <em>The Journal of Appalachian Studies </em>6.1 & 2 (Spring/Fall 2000): 100-108.</li>
<li> “’The Wheel’s Worst Illusion’: The Spatial Politics of Operation Wandering Soul” - <em>Review of Contemporary Fiction</em> 18.3 (Fall 1998): 72-83.</li>
<li> “Story Time: Working-Class Women's Interventions in Literary Temporal Conventions" - <em>Narrative</em> 6.3 (October 1998): 292-306.</li>
<li> “Taken By Storm: The Exploitation of Metaphor in the Persian Gulf Crisis" - <em>Metaphor and Symbolic Activity 8.4 (1993)</em>: 281-295.</li>
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<strong>Other</strong><br />
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<li>“Brushbreaker” - <i>Appalachian Heritage</i>, Summer 2012: 79-81.</li>
<li>Review of <i>Oil on Water</i> by Helon Habila. Orion, September/October 2011: 75.</li>
<li>“Jacklighting Appalachia” - <em>Grist Magazine</em>, November 13, 2009, <a href="http://www.grist.org/article/2009-11-13-jacklighting-appalachia/">http://www.grist.org/article/2009-11-13-jacklighting-appalachia/</a></li>
<li>“A Ruthless Elegance” - <em>Orion</em>, July/August 2009: 56-61.</li>
<li>“Reading How You’re Read: The Art of Evaluating Criticism” - <em>Poets and Writers</em>, May/June 2007.</li>
<li>“Virtual Hillbilly: Musings on JT LeRoy by a Flesh and Blood West Virginian” - <em>Appalachian Heritage</em>, Summer 2006: 35-45.</li>
<li>“Citizen Dustbusters Win One in Southern West Virginia” - <em>Appalachian Voice</em>, Spring 2003. 12-13.</li>
<li>“Kentucky High Schoolers Blast Mountaintop Removal” - <em>Appalachian Voice</em>, Summer, 2003. 9.</li>
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<b>Selected Grants And Awards</b><br />
<b><br /></b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> N</span>ominated for <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/books/feature/2015/06/10/22341683/ann-pancake-2015-stranger-genius-award-nominee-in-literature" target="_blank">The Stranger Genius Award</a><br />
Notable Mention in <i>Best American Short Stories 2012</i> for “Mouseskull”<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Notable Mention in <i>Best American Short Stories 2010</i> for “Arsonists” <br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Thomas D. and Lily Chaffin Award for Appalachian Literature, 2010<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Brenda Ueland Fiction Prize for “Me and My Daddy Listen to Bob Marley,” 2010<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Finalist for the 2008 Washington State Book Award, <i>Strange As This Weather Has Been</i><br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Finalist for the 2008 Orion Book Award, <i>Strange As This Weather Has Been</i><br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>2007 Weatherford Prize for best fiction/poetry about Appalachia, <i>Strange As This </i><i>Weather Has Been</i><br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Plattner Award for Nonfiction for “Virtual Hillbilly,” 2006 <br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Doris Roberts/William Goyen Fellowship in Fiction, the Christopher Isherwood Foundation, 2005<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Artist Trust/Washington State Arts Commission Fellowship, 2005<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Julia Peterkin Prize, 2005<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Pushcart Prize for “Dog Song,” 2004<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>West Virginia Commission on the Arts Fellowship, 2004<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Whiting Writers Award, 2003<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Glasgow Prize for <i>Given Ground</i>, Washington and Lee University, 2003 <br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>First Place, New Millennium Writings, Creative Nonfiction, 2003<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Katherine Nason Bakeless Fellow, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, 2001 <br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship, 2001<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Bakeless Literary Publication Prize for <i>Given Ground</i>, 2000<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Tennessee Williams Scholarship in Fiction, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, 2000<br />
<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writers' Fellowship Grant, 1996<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-935557877565927484.post-32024703444419274652007-01-29T20:13:00.000-05:002008-11-13T17:23:53.620-05:00Pictures<span style="font-size:85%;"><em>Here are some images of what happens when coal is extracted by blowing the tops off the mountains. The coal companies claim they can restore the mountains but that is simply not true. They can only throw wild grass on top, grass that is not native to West Virginia, which grows in scraggly patches here and there. The mountain is dead forever.</em></span><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNF24nKKp9mRLonD1_l7rzNY0nIqnlN3vLrexddEBqFZ9BlXurO16EPRcKflJBILFTcU9ghUoRJ-F4n7nSlY35-HRtwOSPg6oycIZB8_oYEuI0clKZC5a4F5JOjfKuGWHH7Z6KOp4iCmE/s1600-h/mountain-topped1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5025626794498117218" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNF24nKKp9mRLonD1_l7rzNY0nIqnlN3vLrexddEBqFZ9BlXurO16EPRcKflJBILFTcU9ghUoRJ-F4n7nSlY35-HRtwOSPg6oycIZB8_oYEuI0clKZC5a4F5JOjfKuGWHH7Z6KOp4iCmE/s320/mountain-topped1.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><em>Photo: Vivian Stockman/SouthWings. See more about mountaintop removal at the <a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.grist.org/news/maindish/2006/02/16/reece/">Grist </a>website (<a href="http://www.grist.org/news/maindish/2006/02/16/reece/" target="_top">www.grist.org/news/maindish/2006/02/16/reece/</a>).</em><br /><em></em><br /><br /><div><em><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></em></div><div><em><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></em></div><div><em><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></em></div><div><em><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></em></div><div><em><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></em></div><div><em><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></em></div><div><em><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></em></div><div><em><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></em></div><div><em><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></em></div><div><em><span style="font-size:85%;"></span></em></div><br /><br /><div></div><br /><div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com