Red Holler

$3000 marketing and publicity budget Galleys available: national mailings, BEA, and Winter Institute Co-op available Advertising in Writers Chronicle, Poets & Writers, and Appalachian publications Bookseller and Library promotions: LibraryThing and Goodreads giveaways; Consortium galley box; IndieBound Advance Access program; MLA catalog ad; attendance at AWP and BEA National print campaign, specifically targeting Appalachian and Southern publications, such as Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Appalachian Heritage Magazine, Louisville Courier-Journal, Pittsburgh Post Gazette, and others. Panel at AWP 2014, Appalachian Studies Conference, and Mildred Haun Conference eBook available at same time as print publication, eBook ISBN to be included on all press materials and wherever print ISBN is listed. Author will promote both mediums through social media. Promotion on contributors' websites Publicity and promotion in conjunction with the contributors' speaking engagements Electronic postcard to announce publication sent to editors' and contributors' contacts Newsletter and catalog feature mailed to Sarabande's database of contacts Internet marketing campaign to include announcement on Sarabande national listserv

This anthology of contemporary Appalachian literature travels through housing projects, forest-stripped ravines, and trailer high-rises, exploring Appalachia's vibrant migrant tradition."Buy this book, it's a barn burner!"—Dorothy Allison In an extraordinarily diverse anthology of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and graphic narratives by contemporary Appalachian writers, Red Holler takes us over and beyond the stock imagery of rural mountain communities. We travel into housing projects, forest-stripped ravines, and trailer parks, to explore vibrant hometown and migrant Appalachian cultures. Editors John E. Branscum and Wayne Thomas have assembled a collection spanning ten years and communities in locales ranging from Mississippi to New York, placing fresh new voices alongside widely known and celebrated authors. Drawing on Appalachian literature’s roots in Native American myth, African American urban legend, and European folk culture, and embracing Appalachian urban fiction, the Southern Gothic, gritty no-holds-barred realism, and magical realism, the stories and poems of Red Holler elegantly cohere to perfectly depict what makes Appalachia so fascinating: its irreverent and outlaw challenges to mainstream notions of propriety and convention.