` Bottom Dog Press Books [1984-2021]
A History of a Small Press’s Publishing in the Midwest
35 years of publishing and 210 books.
We are a not-for-profit, independent, literary publisher.
Many people make this work happen for others: editors, artists, layout designers, and
about 1,000 writers. We received Ohio Arts Council support for many of these early projects.
1980’s
1984 Across These States: Journal Poems by Larry Smith [* First in our Ohio Writers Series chapbook]
1985 Thirty-Six Spokes: The Bicycle Poems by Terry Hermsen [Ohio Writers Series chapbook]
1985 Better Things to Do by Milton Jordan & Lights and Shadows by Marci Janas [Ohio Writers Series, dual chapbook]
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1986 Ohio Woman by Philip F. O’Connor (Ohio Writers Series, Fiction)
1986 Mike's Place, Every Monday by Michael E. Waldecki & Raw Sienna by Ronald E. Kittell [Wild Dog Series, dual book]
1986 Family Stories: The Grennans by Jim Gorman & Peter Desey’s The Benoits [Ohio Writers Series, Fiction dual book]
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1987 A Pencil to Write Your Name: Poems from the Nicaraguan Poetry Workshops, translations by Diane Kendig & Photography
and Introduction by Steve Cagan
1987 Bodies of Water by George Myers Jr. [Ohio Writers Series]
1987 Best Ohio Fiction, edited by Laura Smith and Larry Smith. Included Philip F. O’Connor, Robert Flanagan, Robert Fox, Jack
Matthews and younger writers Brian Feil, Anne Flanagan, Amy Schildhouse, and John O’Connor [Ohio Writers Series; first
perfect bound book]
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1988 Three by Three: Bloom Blood by Joe Napora, After Uelsmann by Michael Cole, The Edge of Heaven by Roy Bentley [* First in
our Midwest Writers Series]
1988 The Discovery of Fire by David Shevin [Ohio Writers Series; won Ohioana Best Book of Poetry Award]
1988 From the Heartlands: Photos and Essays from the Midwest, ed. Larry Smith
1988 Ohio Zen Poems: All the Difference by d. steven conkle & Inside the Garden by Larry Smith [Ohio Writers Series dual book]
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1989 Ohio Women: Earthbound by Imogene Bolls, No Winter but this Cold Rain by Gloria Regalbuto, Breastbone by Merry Speece,
Barflies Stories by Karen St. John-Vincent [Ohio Writers Series]
1989 Mad National Geogery by David Canalos (posthumous) done with Bloody Twin Press
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1990’s
1990 Loving Power: Stories by Robert Flanagan [Midwest Writers Series]
1991 A Red Shadow of Steel Mills: Photos and Poems including chapbooks: In Medias Res by Timothy Russell, Shaped Like a
Heart by David J. Adams, The Weight of Smoke by Kip Knott, and Mill and Smoke Marrow by Richard Hague [Midwest Writers
Series]
1991 Awash with Roses: The Collected Love Poems of Kenneth Patchen edited by Larry Smith and Laura Smith (hard cover and
soft cover) with an introduction by Larry Smith (Re-issued 2011)
1991 The Heartlands Today Vol. 1 Issue 1 edited by The Firelands Writing Center
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1992 Inquiries: Poems by Jeff Gundy [Midwest Writers Series]
1992 Any One Man: Poems by Roy Bentley (hard and soft cover) [Ohio Writers Series]
1992 The Heartlands Today: A Cultural Quilt edited by The Firelands Writing Center
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1993 Where We Came In: Poems by David Adams
1993 Human Anatomy: Three Fictions by Philip F. O’Connor, Annabel Thomas, and Jack Matthews
1993 Steam Dummy and Fragments from the Fire: Poems by Chris Llewellyn (soft cover and audio cassette) [*First in our
Working Lives Series]
1993 Needles and Needs: Poems by David Shevin (hard and soft cover)
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1994 In Buckeye Country: Photos and Essays of Ohio Life, eds. John Moore & Larry Smith [Ohio Writers Series]
1994 Beginning with And: New and Selected Poems by Albert T. Turner (Midwest Writers Series)
1994 Sidewinders and Accolades: Poems by Michael Waldecki
1994 Men and Women - Women and Men: A Poetry Chapbook Collection includes chapbooks: Child Aloft in Ohio Theatre by Terry
Hermsen, The House of a Woman by Joanne Lowery, In a Neighborhood of Dying Light by Brooke Horvath, Mothers, Daughters, &
Dreams by Connie Willet Everett, News of Loss by Robert DeMott, Modern Love by Anne Townsend [Midwest Writes Series]
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1995 The Mama Stories by Lolette Kuby
1995 Murder in the Family: Poems by Richard Messer
1995 Tales along the Appalachian Plateau by Danny Fulks [*First in our Appalachian Writing Series]
1995 Beyond Rust: Stories by Larry Smith [Working Lives Series]
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1996 Coffeehouse Poetry Anthology: Poems-Photos-Statements, eds. Larry Smith, June King
1996 Getting By: Stories of Working Lives eds. David Shevin & Larry Smith [Working Lives Series]
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1997 Human Landscapes: 3 Books of Poems by Daniel Smith, Edwina Pendarvis, Philip St. Clair [Working Lives Series chapbooks]
1997 Milltown Natural: Essays and Stories from a Life by Richard Hague [Working Lives Series, nominated for National Book
Award]
1997 Burley One Dark Sucker Fired: Poems by Maj Ragain
1997 Nature (pocket book) ed. Laura Smith
1997 Even the Broken Letters of the Heart Spell Earth by Daniel Thompson (book & CD of Thompson reading to jazz)
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1998 Food Poems (pocket book) eds. Terry Hermsen and David Garrison
1998 Chinese Zen Poems: What Hold Has This Mountain, translated by Mei Hui Liu Huang & Larry Smith [* First in our Laughing
Buddha Series]
1998 Brooding the Heartlands: Poets of the Midwest, ed. M.L.Liebler includes chapbooks by Jim Daniels, W. D. Ehrhart, Sean
Thomas Daugherty, Aurora Harris, Faye Kicknosway, M. L. Liebler, Ed Sanders, Larry Smith, Tyrone Williams [Midwest Writers
Series]
1998 The Road That Carried Me Here: Poems by Ray McNiece
1998 Writing Work: Writers on Working-Class Writing edited by David Shevin, Larry Smith, and Janet Zandy [Working Lives
Series Anthology]
1998 Dunbar: Suns and Dominions; includes chapbooks Galileo’s Suns by Herbert Woodward Martin and Epicurus’ Dominion by
Deborah Ellen Stokes [*First in our Paul Laurence Dunbar Series, dual poetry chapbooks]
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1999 No Pets: Stories by Jim Roy Daniels [Working Lives Series]
1999 Advice for the Climb: Poems by Imogene Bolls [Midwest Writers Series]
1999 Blind Horse: Poems by Jeanne Bryner [Working Lives Series; and Appalachian Series]
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2000's
2000 Haiku Poems (pocket book) eds. Yvonne Hardenbrook & Larry Smith
2000 Kenneth Patchen: Rebel Poet in America by Larry Smith (hard and soft cover) [Published through A Consortium of Small
Press Publishers; revised in 2012]
2000 Moving to Find Work: Poems by Naton Leslie [Working Lives Series]
2000 The Neighborhood Years: Poems by David Kherdian [Working Lives Series]
2000 Our Working Lives: Short Stories of People and Work edited by Bonnie Jo Campbell and Larry Smith [Working Lives
Anthology Series]
2000 Rhapsody with Dark Matter: Poems by Jeff Gundy
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2001 Two Midwest Voices: Mirror Lake by Jerry Roscoe and The Weather in Athens by Robert DeMott [Midwest Writers Series;
Won the Ohioan Best Book of Poetry Award]
2001 The Ohio Trio: Fictions by Allen Frost
2001 The Marcy Stories: Fiction by Fran Zell
2001 Twist the Axe: A Horseplayer's Story (Poems & Journals) by Maj Ragain (hard and soft cover) [Working Lives Series]
2001 Neon: Poems and Stories by Michael Salinger
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2002 Three Miles from Luckey: Poems by David Shevin (hard and soft cover) [Working Lives Series]
2002 Ripe: Poems by Todd Davis [Harmony Series]
2002 Working Hard for the Money: America's Working Poor in Stories, Poems, and Photos, eds. Mary E. Weems and Larry Smith
[Working Lives Anthology Series]
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2003 Eclipse: Stories by Jeanne Bryner [Working Lives Series and Appalachian Series]
2003 Throat: Poems by Mary Ann Wehler [Midwest Writers Series]
2003 Songs of the Woodcutter: Zen Poems of Wang Wei and Taigu Ryokan, trans. Mei Hui Liu Huang & Larry
Smith, with flute by Monte Page (CD and booklet) [Laughing Buddha Series]
2003 When: Poems by Don Moyer [Harmony Series]
2003 O Taste and See: Food Poems eds. Terry Hermsen & David Garrison (Harmony Anthology Series)
2003 Alive in Hard Country: Poems by Richard Hague [Working Lives Series; Won the Appalachian Poetry Book of the Year
Award]
2003 Heartlands: Our Natural World, Charter Issue, edited by The Firelands Writing Center
2003 Songs That Fathoms Home: Poems by Ray McNiece [Working Lives Series]
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2004 Death by Renaissance: Poems by Paola Corso with, Photographs by George Thomas Mendel [Working Lives Series]
2004 Emergency Stopping and Other Stories by Jeff Vande Zande [Working Lives Fiction Series]
2004 Bowl of Water: Poems by Allen Frost [Harmony Series]
2004 Hymns and Songs of Purandaradasa, translated by Denish Hassan [Harmony Series]
2004 In Neck Deep: Stories from a Fisherman by Jay Zimmerman [Harmony Series]
2004 America Zen: A Gathering of Poets, edited by Ray McNiece and Larry Smith [Harmony
Anthology Series and Laughing Buddha Series]
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2005 Escape to the Promised Land: Poems by Herbert Woodward Martin [Paul Laurence Dunbar Series]
2005 Street: Poems by Jim Daniels, Photographs by Charlee Brodsky (hard and soft cover) [Working
Lives Series; Won the Tillie Olsen Creative Writing Award]
2005 Family Matters: Poems of Our Families edited by Ann Smith and Larry Smith [Harmony
Anthology Series]
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2006 The Search for the Reason Why: New and Selected Poems by Tom Kryss [Harmony Series]
2006 The Art of Country Grain Elevators Poems by Jon Volkmer, Photographs by Bruce Selyem
[Working Lives Series]
2006 d.a. levy and the Cleveland Mimeograph Revolution: A Double DVD
2006 120 Charles Street, the Village: Journals and Writings, 1949-1950 by Holly Beye [*First in our Bird Dog Publishing Books/
Memoir Series]
*Bird Dog Publishing is created as an imprint of Bottom Dog Press
2006 Best of Heartlands: A Magazine of Midwest Art and Life edited by The Firelands Writing Center
2006 Evensong: Contemporary American Poets on Spirituality edited by Gerry Lafemina and Chad Prevost [Harmony
Anthology Series]
2006 Depression Days on Appalachian Farm: Poems by Robert Tener [Bird Dog Publishing book #2]
2006 Faces and Voices: Tales by Larry Smith [Bird Dog Publishing book #3]
2006 Lake Effect: Poems by Laura Bentley [Bird Dog Publishing book #4]
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2007 The Lecture on Dust: Poems by Brooke Horvath [Harmony Series]
2007 d.a.levy and the Mimeograph Revolution edited by Ingrid Swanberg and Larry Smith (Includes dvd “if i scratch, if i write")
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2007 Winter Apples: Poems by Paul Piper [Bird Dog Publishing book #5]
2007 Bar Stories, ed Nan Byrne [Working Lives Anthology]
2007 Another Life: Poems by Allen Frost [Bird Dog Publishing book #6]
2007 Hunger Artist: A Midwest Childhood by Joanne Jacobson [Harmony Series/ Memoir Series]
2007 Second Story Woman: A Memoir of Second Chances by Carole Calladine [Bird Dog Publishing/ Memoir Series]
2007 Our Way of Life: Poems by Ray McNiece [Working Lives Series]
2007 A Life in Poems by William Wright, with and introduction and biography by Larry Smith [Bird Dog Publishing book #8]
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2008 257 Zones of Gray: Poems by Rob Smith[Bird Dog Publishing book]
2008 Cleveland Poetry Scenes: A Panorama and Anthology, eds by Nina Freedlander Gibans, Mary E. Weems, and Larry Smith
[Harmony Anthology Series]
2008 Unmistakable Shade of Red and the Obama Chronicles by Mary E. Weems [Harmony Series]
2008 Ascent from Cleveland Wild Heart/ Steel Phoenix by Russell Salamon [A Fredonia Press Project]
2008 River's Daughter: Poems by Terry Hermsen [Harmony Series, won Ohio Poetry Award]
2008 Awake at the End—edited by John Panza and Mary E. Weems and includes poet laureates from Cleveland Heights,
Ohio: Loren Weiss, Meredith Holmes, and Mary E. Weems [publishing with the Cleveland Heights Arts Organization]
2008 Come Together: Imagine Peace edited by Philip Metres, Ann Smith, and Larry Smith [Harmony Anthology Series]
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2009 Landscape with Fragmented Figures: A Novel by Jeff Vande Zande [Working Lives Fiction Series]
2009 Home Recordings by Allen Frost [Bird Dog Publishing book # 10]
2009 Kanshi Poems of Taigu Ryokan, trans. by Mei Hui Liu Huang & Larry Smith [Laughing Buddha Series]
2009 Daily Bread: A Portrait of Homeless Men and Women by Jennifer Burd, Photographs by Lad Strayer [Working Lives
Series]
2009 Heart Murmurs: Poems by John Vanek [Bird Dog Publishing book #11]
2009 Reply to an Eviction Notice: New and Selected Poems by Robert Flanagan [Working Lives Series]
2009 The Long River Home: A Novel by Larry Smith (hard and soft cover ) [Working Lives Fiction Series and Appalachian
Series]
2009 Beautiful Rust: Poems by Ken Meisel [Working Lives Series]
2009 Rushlight: Poems by Chris Green [Appalachian Writing Series]
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2010's
2010 Bottom Dog Press Anthology, 25th Year edited by Laura Smith, Allen Frost, and Larry Smith
2010 Riders on the Storm: A Novel by Susan Streeter Carpenter [Working Lives Series]
2010 Strangers in America: A Novel by [Working Lives Series]
2010 Church of the Backyard Fire by Vladimir Swyrinsky [Bird Dog Publishing: Working Lives Series]
2010 On the Clock: Contemporary Short Stories of Work, eds. Jeff Vande Zande and Josh Maday [Working Lives Series]
2010 Degrees of Elevation: Short Stories of Contemporary Appalachia, eds. Charles Dodd White and Page Seay
[Working Lives Series; Appalachian Series]
2010 The Mermaid Translations: Fiction by Allen Frost [Bird Dog Publishing]
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2011 The Big Book of Daniel: Collected Poems of Daniel Thompson, edited with foreword by Maj Ragain
2011 DVD James Wright's Ohio (28 mins)/ Kenneth Patchen: An Art of Engagement (40 mins)
2011 Dogs & Other Poems by Paul Piper [Bird Dog Publishing]
2011 Poetic Journey by Robert Reynolds [Bird Dog Publishing]
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2012 Learning How: Stories by Richard Hague {Appalachian Writing Series]
2012 Sinners of Sanction County: Stories by Charles Dodd White [Appalachian Writing Series]
2012 The Way-Back Room by Mary Minock [Memoir Series]
2012 The Free Farm: A Novel by Larry Smith [Appalachian Writing Series]
2012 The Pattern Maker's Daughter: Poems by Sandra Gertz Umbach [Working Lives Series]
2012 American Poet: A Novel by Jeff Vande Zande [Working Lives Series]; *Winner Notable Michigan Book Award]
2012 Selected Correspondence of Kenneth Patchen, ed. Allen Frost
2012 Broken Collar: A Novel by Ron Mitchell [Working Lives Series]
2012 Maggot: A Novel by Robert Flanagan [Revised edition, Working Lives Series]
2012 Homegoing: A Novel by Michael Olin-Hitt [Appalachian Writing Series]
2012 Smoke: Poems by Jeanne Bryner [Working Lives Series; Winner American Journal of Nursing Award]
2012 Each Moment: Poems by Larry Smith [Laughing Buddha Series]
2012 Breathing West: Poems by Liane Ellison Norman [Harmony Series]
2012 She Who Is Like a Mare: Poems of the Frontier Nursing Service by Karen Kotrba [Appalachian Writing Series]
2012 Kenneth Patchen: Rebel Poet in America by Larry Smith [revised and expanded edition]
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2013 The Curve of the World: A Journey into the Spiritual of Yoga by Andy Douglas [Memoir Series]
2013 Ariadne & Other Poems by Ingrid Swanberg (Harmony Series)
2013 The Wonderful Stupid Man by Allen Frost [Bird Dog Publishing, fiction]
2013 Painting Bridges: A Novel by Patricia Averbach [Harmony Series]
2013 Sky Under the Roof: Poems by Hilda Downer [Appalachian Writing Series]
2013 Words Walk: Poems by Ronald M. Ruble [Bird Dog Publishing]
2013 Harmonist at Nightfall: Poems by Shari Wagner (Harmony Series)
2013 The Canary: A Novel by Michael Loyd Gray (Harmony Series)
2013 On the Flyleaf: Poems by Herbert Woodward Martin (Harmony & Dunbar Series)
2013 Stolen Child: A Novel by Suzanne Kelly (Harmony Series)
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2014 Story Hour and Other Stories by Robert Flanagan (Working Lives Series)
2014 An Act of Courage: Selected Poems of Mort Krahling, eds. Brooke Horvath and Judy Platz (Harmony Series)
2014 Waiting at the Dead End Diner: Poems by Rebecca Scumejda (Working Lives Series)
2014 Echo: Poems by Christina Lovin (Harmony Series)
2014 Lake Winds: Poems by Larry Smith (Harmony Series)
2014 Gifted and Talented: A Novel by Julia Watts (Harmony Fiction Series)
2014 And You Bird Can Sing: Fiction by Robert Miltner (Harmony Fiction Series)
2014 Daughters of the Grasslands: A Memoir by Mary Woster Haug (Memoir Series)
2014 Jack's Memoirs: A Novel by Kurt Landefeld (Harmony Fiction Series)
2014 Wanted: Good Family, A Novel by Joseph G. Anthony (Appalachian Writing Series)
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2015 Salvatore and Maria: Finding Paradise by Paul L. Gentile (Harmony Memoir Series)
2015 Far Country: Stories from Abroad and Other Places by Timothy Kenny (Harmony Memoir Series)
2015 Appalachia Now: Short Stories of Contemporary Appalachia, eds. Charles Dodd White and Larry Smith
(Appalachian Fiction Series)
2015 Voices from the Appalachian Coalfields: Found Poems by Mike and Ruth Yarrow, photographs by Douglas Yarrow.
(Appalachian Writing Series; winner of Tillie Olson Creative Writing Award)
2015 Drone String: Poems by Sherry Cook Stanforth (Appalachian Writing Series)
2015 Abandoned Homeland: Poems by Jeff Gundy (Ohio Poet of the Year 2015; Harmony Series)
2015 Brown Bottle: A Novel by Sheldon Compton (Appalachian Writing Series)
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2016 Both Shoes Off: Poems by Jeanne Bryner (Harmony Series)
2016 And Waking…Poems by Kevin Casey (Harmony Series)
2016 Waiting to Begin: Memoir by Pat O'Donnell (Harmony Memoir Series)
2016 Flesh and Stones: Field Notes from a Finite World by Jan Shoemaker (Harmony Memoir Series)
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2017 Cold Air Return: A Novel by Patrick Lawrence O'Keeffe (Harmony Series)
2017 The Thick of Thin: Memoirs of a Working-Class Writer by Larry Smith (Harmony Memoir Series)
2017 Portrait of the Artist as a Bingo Worker: On Work and Writing by Lori Jakiela (Harmony Memoir Series)
2017 Unbroken Circle: Stories of Cultural Diversity in the South eds. Julia Watts and Larry Smith (Appalachia Series)
2017 A House for Last Year's Summer: Poems by Terry Hermsen (Harmony Poetry Series)
2017 Crows in the Jukebox: Poems by Mike James (Pocket Poetry Series #1)
2017 Pieces: A Composite Novel by Mary Ann McGuigan (Harmony Fiction Series)
2017 Records of Kosho the Toad: Poems by Robert Tremmel (Laughing Buddha Series)
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2018 Earnest Occupations: Teaching, Writing, Gardening, & Other Local Work by Richard Hague (Harmony Series)
2018 Thoreau's Lost Journal: Poems by Larry Smith (Enlarged 2nd Edition)
2018 Taking a Walk with My Animal Hat: Poems by Charlene Fix (Harmony Series)
2018 A Wounded Snake: A Novel by Joseph G. Anthony (Appalachian Fiction Series)
2018 What Burden Do Those Trains Bear Away: A Memoir in Poems by Kathleen S. Burgess (Harmony Series)
2018 Tu Fu Comes to America: A Story in Poems by Larry Smith (Laughing Buddha Series; Enlarged 2nd. Edition)
2018 Old Brown: Poems by Craig Paulenich (Appalachian Writing Series)
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2019 The Pears: Poems by Larry Smith (Harmony Series)
2019 Fissures, And Other Stories by Timothy Dodd (Appalachian Writing Series)
2019 Mama's Song: A Novel by P. Shaun Neal (Appalachian Writing Series)
2019 I Reckon: Haiku and Haiban by Francis Wesley Alexander (Paul Laurence Dunbar Series)
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2020's
2020 40 Patchtown: A Novel by Damian Dressick (Appalachian Writing Series)
2020 Family Portrait with Scythe: Poems by James Owens (Harmony Series)
2020 Quilt Life: Poems by Cindy Bosley (Harmony Series)
2020 The Yeoman's Work: Poems by Garrett Stark
2020 How to See the World: Poems by Paula J. Lambert (Harmony Series)
2020 Mingo Town & Memories by Larry R. Smith (Bird Dog Publications)
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2021 The Long Way Home: Stories by Ron Lands (Appalachian Writing Series)
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