Wild Wind: Poems and Stories Inspired by the Songs of Robert Earl Keen edited by Sandra Johnson Cooper and Ron Cooper, with a preface by Willy Braun of Reckless Kelly Coming November 19, 2024 This anthology of poems and short stories is an homage to Texas singer/song-writer Robert Earl Keen, who stands in the songwriter/storyteller […] The post Wild Wind – we know who’s in appeared first on Madville Publishing ..read more

Our Madville poets did a fabulous job of representing us at the 47th Annual Appalachian Studies Conference The theme was, Beloved Community: Pride in Identity, Culture, and Geography, and the conference took place March 7-9, 2024, at Western Carolina University, in Cullowhee, North Carolina. The Madville poets in attendance were Jim Minick (The Intimacy of […] The post Appalachian Studies Conference appeared first on Madville Publishing ..read more

We will be attending the Southern Festival of Books in 2023 It is in Nashville again this year, and we loved it so much last year, we can’t wait to get back. We look forward to seeing so many friends, especially, our wonderful Linda Parsons has a book that we published featured, Valediction. She’ll be […] The post Southern Festival of Books 2023 appeared first on Madville Publishing ..read more

Fantastic Imaginary Creatures is an anthology edited by Gerry LaFemina. Projected publication is March 2024. It is closed for submissions. The post Fantastic Imaginary Creatures appeared first on Madville Publishing ..read more

Madville is pleased to announce that linda ravenswood‘s poetry collection, a poem is a house, is the winner of our 2022 Arthur Smith Poetry Prize. Yiskah Rosenfeld was the first runner-up with her collection Tasting Flight. We received 52 total submissions. The first round was read by Candance Reaves and Catherine Pritchard Childress. The post 2022 Arthur Smith Poetry Prize Winners appeared first on Madville Publishing ..read more