Western North Carolina Women Writers

I am tickled pink to be able to share some fun news. Four anthologies from Western North Carolina Women Writers are now available in Kindle format:

It's All Relative: Tales from the Tree: from 50 WNC Women Writers, 

Women's Spaces Women's Places: from 50 WNC Women Writers, 

Clothes Lines: from 75 western North Carolina women writers, and 

Christmas Presence: from 45 western North Carolina women writers. 

All four were edited by the awesome and uber talented Celia Miles and Nancy Dillingham.  I love these women.

I am proud to be a part of three of the anthologies. 

Clothes Lines will always hold a special place in my heart as it was my first time being published. And to be published between the covers of the same book with the likes of former NC Poet Laureate Kathryn Stripling Byer, Isabel Zuber, Joan Medlicott and so many other accomplished writers still knocks me over. 

I hope you'll buy every one of them and fall in love with some of the talented women of Western North Carolina.

Where I'll be . . .

On Sunday, February 28 at 3:00, I'll be joining Nancy Dillingham, Celia Miles (editors and contributors) along with other contributors to the latest anthology from women authors of Western North Carolina.

If you're in the Asheville, NC area, I hope you'll drop by Malaprop's Books to help us celebrate the release of "It's All Relative: Tales from the Tree."

Rob Neufeld writes in the Citizen-Times “there’s a shadowy, down-to-earth and at times magical quality to the telling that makes the collection striking and significant.”

From Celia's webpage:

It’s All Relative: Tales from the Tree

Pundits have a penchant for comparing families to food…

Best-selling author, columnist, and Pulitzer Prize winner Anna Quindlen proclaims:

“In the family sandwich the older people and the younger ones can recognize one another as the bread. Those in the middle are, for a time, the meat.”

Journalist and social activist Letty Collin Pogrebin says:

“If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but inseparable—each segment distinct.”

An old Chinese proverb cautions: “Govern a family as you would cook a fish—very gently.”

Another puts it more succinctly: “Family are like fudge— mostly sweet with a few nuts.”

In this smorgasbord of family stories, essays, and poems, you can nibble on a nugget, munch on a morsel, or gobble down a whole meal.


Celia H. Miles and Nancy Dillingham have edited three previous anthologies of regional women writers: Christmas Presences from 45 WNC Women Writers, Clothes Lines from 75 WNC Women Writers and Women’s Spaces Women’s Places from 50 WNC Women Writers.

If you're interested in buying "It's All Relative," or any of the earlier anthologies, click here.