• Ep. 35 | Poetry Corner: Idra Novey
    Nov 28 2024

    In the latest installment of our minisode series, Poetry Corner, Kendra Winchester is joined by Idra Novey.

    Books Mentioned

    • Soon and Wholly by Idra Novey
    • Take What You Need by Idra Novey
    • Frank: Sonnets by Diane Seuss
    • The Stone Catchers by Laura Leigh Morris

    Guest Info

    Idra Novey: Website | Twitter | Instagram
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    32 mins
  • Ep. 34 | Testimonies
    Nov 7 2024

    In today’s episode of the podcast, Kendra Winchester talks to authors Rae Garringer and Chris Aluka Berry.

    Books Mentioned

    • Country Queers: A Love Letter by Rae Garringer
    • Affrilachia: Testimonies by. Chris Aluka Berry
    • Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward
    • Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
    • Southernmost by Silas House
    • The Prettiest Star by Carter Sickels
    • Another Appalachia by Neema Avashia
    • Praising for the Kitchen Ghosts by Crystal Wilkerson
    • When All God’s Children Get Together: A Celebration of the Lives and Music of African American People in Far Western North Carolina by Ann Miller Woodford
    • Little Worlds by Rob Amberg
    • A is for Affrilachia by Frank X Walker
    • Harlan Renaissance: Stories of Black Life in Appalachian Coal Towns by William Turner

    GUEST INFO
    Rae Garringer: Website | Instagram
    Chris Aluka Berry: Website
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    1 hr and 22 mins
  • Ep. 33 | Poetry Corner: Emilie Menzel
    Sep 26 2024

    In the latest installment of our minisode series, Poetry Corner, Kendra Winchester is joined by Emilie Menzel.

    Books Mentioned

    • The Girl Who Became a Rabbit by Emilie Menzel
    • The Book of Frank by Caconrad
    • Sea & Fog by Etel Adnan
    • Whatsaid Serif by Nathaniel Mackey
    • Grief Is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter

    Guest Info
    Emilie Menzel: Instagram | Website
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    28 mins
  • Ep. 32 | Debut Authors
    Sep 16 2024

    In today’s episode, host Kendra Winchester talks to debut authors Monic Ductan and Laura Leigh Morris.


    Things Mentioned

    • Debutiful


    Books Mentioned

    • Daughters of Muscadine by Monic Ductan
    • The Stone Catchers by Laura Leigh Morris
    • Mama Said by Kristen Gentry
    • Deep Ruts by Julie Rae Powers
    • The Sound of Holding Your Breath by Natalie Sypolt
    • Horsepower by Joy Priest
    • The Prettiest Star by Carter Sickels
    • No Son of Mine by Jonathan Corcoran
    • Another Appalachia by Neema Avashia
    • Dirt Songs by Karie Hunter-Seymour

    Guest Info

    Monic Ductan: Website | Instagram | X
    Laura Leigh Morris: Website | X | Instagram
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    1 hr and 17 mins
  • Ep. 31 | Debutiful
    Aug 22 2024

    In the special episode of the podcast, Kendra Winchester is joined by Adam Vitcavage, the founder of Debutiful.

    Books Mentioned

    • Housemates by Emma Copley Eisenberg
    • Daughters of Muscadine by Monic Ductan
    • Hijab Butch Blues by Lamya H
    • Temple Folk by Aaliyah Bilal
    • Good Women by Halle Hill
    • Mouth by Puloma Ghosh
    • There is a Rio Grande in Heaven by Ruben Reyes Jr
    • Company by Shannon Sanders
    • Every Drop is a Man’s Nightmare by Megan Kamalei Kakimoto

    GUEST INFO

    Debutiful: Website | Podcast| Instagram | X | Facebook
    Adam Vitcavage: X | Instagram
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    37 mins
  • Ep. 30 | Read Appalachia Turns 4!
    Aug 1 2024

    It’s Read Appalahia’s fourth birthday! In today’s episode of the podcast, Kendra Winchester talks to authors Mesha Maren and Taylor Brown.

    Books Mentioned

    • Shae by Mesha Maren
    • Rednecks by Taylor Brown
    • The MANIAC by Benjamín Labatut
    • You Are the Snake by Juliet Escoria
    • Fight Like Hell: the Untold Story of American Labor by Kim Kelly
    • The Hammer: Power, Inequality, and the Struggle for the Soul of Labor by Hamilton Nolan
    • Slime Line by Jake Maynard

    Guest Info

    Mesha Maren: Website | Instagram | X
    Taylor Brown: Website | X | Instagram
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    1 hr and 25 mins
  • Ep. 29 | Poetry Corner: Amy M. Alvarez
    Jun 20 2024

    In the latest installment of our minisode series, Poetry Corner, Kendra Winchester is joined by Amy M. Alvarez.

    Books Mentioned

    • Makeshift Altar by Amy M. Alvarez
    • Blue on a Blue Palette by Lynne Thompson
    • Becoming AppalAsian by Lisa Kwong
    • Incendiary Art by Patricia Smith
    • Mothman Apologia Volume 116 by Robert Wood Lynn

    Guest Info

    Amy M. Alvarez’s work has appeared in Ploughshares, The Missouri Review, swamp pink (Crazyhorse), and The Cincinnati Review, among others. She has been awarded fellowships from CantoMundo, VONA, Macondo, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Furious Flower Poetry Center. Alvarez is coeditor of Essential Voices: A COVID-19 Anthology and teaches writing and literature at West Virginia University. In 2022, she was inducted as an Affrilachian Poet. Learn more at amymalvarez.com.

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    21 mins
  • Ep. 28 | Pride Month — Again!
    Jun 7 2024

    In today’s episode of the podcast, Kendra Winchester talks to authors Natalie Naudus and Jonathan Corcoran.

    Books Mentioned

    • Gay the Pray Away by Natalie Naudus
    • No Son of Mine by Jonathan Corcoran
    • The Prettiest Star by Carter Sickels
    • Another Appalachia by Neema Avashia
    • Shae by Mesha Maren
    • Night Watch by Jayne Anne Phillips
    • Black Tickets by Jayne Anne Phillips
    • Fierce Attachments: A Memoir by Vivian Gornick
    • Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison
    • Scissors, Paper, Rock by Fenton Johnson

    Guest Info
    Natalie Naudus: Website | TikTok | Instagram | X
    Jonathan Corcoran: Website | X | Instagram
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    1 hr and 28 mins