3 Emerging Writers
On Monday, February 12th, we were proud to welcome Halle Hill, Anna Laura Reeve, and Annie Woodford to campus to speak to students and the public about their writing.
There was an "In Conversation" panel from 1:40-3 PM. Then, a reading at 4 PM.
Both events were free and open to the public, and were in the Reece Museum in the
Embodying Culture: Women in Appalachia exhibition.
The 3 Emerging Writers:
Halle Hill
Halle Hill is from East Tennessee and lives in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. A graduate of
Maryville College and the M.F.A. Writing program at Savannah College of Art and Design
(SCAD), she is the winner of the 2021 Crystal Wilkinson Creative Writing Prize and
was a finalist for the 2021 ASME Award for Fiction. Her short stories have been published
in Joyland, New Limestone Review, Southwest Review, and The Oxford American, where
she won the 2020 Debut Fiction Prize. Her debut collection, GOOD WOMEN, published
in 2023 with Hub City Press.
Anna Laura Reeve
Anna Laura Reeve is a poet living and gardening near the Tennessee Overhill region, traditional land of the Eastern Cherokee. Her debut collection, Reaching the Shore of the Sea of Fertility, was released in 2023 by Belle Point Press. She is the winner of the 2022 Adrienne Rich Award for Poetry, a finalist for the 2023 Greg Grummer Poetry Contest and the 2022 Ron Rash Award, and is a two-time Pushcart nominee.
Annie Woodford
Annie Woodford is the author of Bootleg (Groundhog Poetry Press, 2019) and Where You Come from Is Gone (Mercer UP, 2022), recipient of the 2022 Weatherford Award for Appalachian Poetry. She was awarded the Jean Ritchie Fellowship in 2019. Her micro-chapbook, When God Was a Child, was published by Bull City Press in 2023, as part of the Inch series.