Pine Mountain Potluck Writer’s Workshop
Good news!!!!!!!
A 2025 Writer’s Workshop is in the works
Previous writers workshop information listed below!
Scott Goebel
Writer, editor and gypsy scholar, Scott Goebel organized early WLR writers' gatherings with Jim Webb. His work has appeared in Appal J, Now & Then, Cold Mountain Review, Appalachian Voices, and Iron Mountain Review. An editor emeritus of Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel, he edited Jim Webb’s Get In, Jesus (Wind 2013) and Joe Barrett’s Blue Planet Memoirs (Dos Madres 2018). He lives above a bar in Campbell County, Kentucky.
Shelly Ayers
Shelly Ayers is a counselor in Stanford, Kentucky and a former Creative Writing/English teacher at Lincoln Memorial University. She has a short story, "Someday" and a memoir, "Samson" in Still: The Journal. Ayers is a 2020 graduate of Spalding University where she completed an MFA and was inspired to begin her now novel-in-progress, A New Song. Ayers lives in Danville, KY but grew up on Stinking Creek, in Pioneer, Tennessee.
Richard Hague
Steubenville, Ohio native Richard Hague’s work has appeared in Poetry, Smartish Pace, Appalachian Journal, Northern Appalachian Review, Birmingham Poetry Review, Nowhere Magazine, Hiram Poetry Review, Nimrod, Mid-American Review, Ohio Magazine, and Creative Nonfiction, among others. He is author or editor of 20 volumes of prose and poetry. His essay “Jesus of the Hills,” featuring the poetry of Jim Webb, appears in Writers By The River: Reflections on 40+Years of the Highland Summer Conference (McFarland Books, 2021).
Robert Gipe
Robert Gipe won the 2015 Weatherford Award for outstanding Appalachian novel for his first novel Trampoline. His second and third novels, Weedeater (2018) and Pop (2021) were Weatherford finalists. All three novels are published by Ohio University Press. In 2021, the trilogy won the Judy Gaines Young Book Award. From 1997 to 2018, Gipe directed the Southeast Kentucky Community & Technical College Appalachian Program in Harlan. Gipe is founding producer of the Higher Ground community performance series, and served as a script consultant for the Hulu series Dopesick. Gipe resides in Harlan County, Kentucky. He grew up in Kingsport, Tennessee.