Step into the Circle

The writers will be discussing and signing this book at their own readings throughout the fall as well as at special gatherings in key cities, where the photos will also be exhibited. A launch is scheduled for Blackberry Farm Resort in TN. The book will be featured at SIBA, Southern Festival of Books and other regional festivals. Prior to publication, publisher plans to place essays in regional and national online publications.

Beloved Appalachian writers and photographers profile each other and their homeland with words and images.In this beautiful book of photographs and short essays, some of Appalachia’s best-known writers profile each other and the place they call home. Edited by Bloodroot novelist Amy Greene and her husband Trent Thomson, this book also features Wendell Berry, Lee Smith, Crystal Wilkinson, Ron Rash, Wiley Cash, Silas House, Jason Kyle Howard, Adriana Trigiani, and others. Part photo book, part essay collection, and all praise for the mountains and valleys of the region, this book collects some of the region’s greatest literary treasures for a generation of readers.