Sarah Diamond Burroway
Still: The Journal, “Crows” (poem) — Contest Finalist
Keeping Traditions, (play) Produced on “4 From the Bluegrass” program in Lexington, KY. Directed by Tim X. Davis and produced by BCTC Theatre. (June 2018)
Tasha Cotter
Some Churches (Gold Wake Press), book of poetry
That Bird Your Heart (Finishing Line Press), poetry chapbook
Girl in the Cave (TreeLight Books: 2016 anthology) poetry chapbook
Torch (Delphi Poetry Series, Blue Lyra Press 2016) chapbook
Rebecca Daff
“Lactose Intolerance” won the 2013 Licking Valley Writers Contest (short story)
Earl P. Dean
Orschy’s Gift is Five Bright Stars, a spec fic zine
Lindsey S. Frantz
The Upworld (Line by Lion Publications) (Summer 2017) novel
Deana Nantz Hays
Fits of Wrath & Irony (Finishing Line Press), poetry chapbook
Russell Helms
The Ground Catches Everything (2015, Roundfire Books) novel
Famine (2016, forthcoming, Knut House Press) novel
Libby Falk Jones
Above the Eastern Treetops, Blue (Finishing Line Press), poetry chapbook
Markus Jones
How the Butcher Bird Finds Her Voice (Five Oaks Press) (Spring 2017), novel
“Cindy and Jack and the Town Drunks,” semi-finalist for the Tillie Olson Short Story Award (2017)
“The Aftermath of Diagnoses,” semi-finalist for Annual Brittany Nakes Poetry Award, SI Rittenhouse, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (2017)
Joey Mau
Subtopian, “Greetings from Haiti” (contest winner)
Jenean McBrearty
Writing Beyond the Self (Vine Leave Press) (nonfiction)
Thomas Miller
Nightrunner (Finalist for the 2016 PEN/Bellwether Award for Socially Engaged Fiction), novel
Bill Mullen
Red Nocturne, Roundfire Books, novel
Laura Nagel
“Planet of One” won 2016 Kentucky Women Writer’s Conference award for fiction
Parker Ashley Owens
Gnome Harvest, (orginially Double Dragon Press) self published, novel
Owner of KY Story, publisher of twenty anthologies and six chapbooks
Eliot Parker
Making Arrangements (Sunstone Press), novel
Breakdown at Clear River (Mid-Atlantic Highlands Press), novel
Fragile Brilliance (Roundfire Books) novel
–2016 finalist for the Lords of Discipline Thriller Prize (part of the Pat Conroy Book Prize)
–Bronze Award from National Literary Habitat Organization for mystery/thriller writing
Recipient of the West Virginia Award for Literary Merit, 2016
Deri Pryor
“Saving Lives, Saving Myself” received 3rd place in MCTC Essay Contest, (essay)
“Rico Suave” recieved 1st Place in MCTC Essay Contest, (essay)
“Dance of the Saturday Father” recieved 1st Place in MCTC Poetry Contest, (poem)
Christopher Rowe
Sandstorm: A Forgotten Realms Novel (Wizards of the Coast), novel
Bittersweet Creek and Other Stories (Small Beer Press), short story collection
Kristen Ruggles
Sagebrush Review, “Honey” (story), Editor’s Choice Contest Winner
Whitnee Thorp
Kintsukuroi, placed 3rd in the South Dakota Poetry Society’s chapbook contest, poetry chapbook
Cicurate, won the South Dakota Poetry Society’s chapbook contest, poetry chapbook
–Director on the board of directors for the South Dakota Poetry Society
Brian Tucker
Phillip Wentirine
Recipient of Fulbright Scholarship to Portugal
–Cultural ambassador for the US by teaching humanities and chronicling stories about local customs
Recipient of Bonnie Plummer Scholarship
–To study creative writing in Portugal during residency and the Disquiet Literary Conference
A Search for Cheap Wine, self-published Amazon anthology, mixed genre