Article: "Living voices": 2003 Appalachian Heritage Writer-in-Residence Project and the West Virginia Young Writers Fiction Competition.

The Appalachian Heritage Writer-in-Residence Project was developed in 1998 by the Department of English at Shepherd College; its purpose is to celebrate and honor the work of a distinguished contemporary Appalachian writer each year. The literary residency was designed to function in concert with the Appalachian Heritage Festival, an annual celebration of Appalachian artistic and cultural traditions, sponsored by the Performing Arts Series at Shepherd. To encourage aspiring young writers, aged sixteen to twenty-eight, and to foster literacy and the kind of networking that encourages literary achievement, Shepherd College developed in 2002 the West Virginia Young Writers ...

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