This week on Eastern Standard:
Happenings in the Kentucky literary scene. We’re joined by Jennifer Mattox, executive director of the Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning, discussing the immediate impacts of the Trump administration’s cuts in funding of the National Endowment for the Arts.
Sharing the concerns raised by Mattox is novelist and educator Sherry Robinson, retired Vice Provost and Professor of English at Eastern Kentucky University.
Melissa Newman provides details of the Appalachian Writers Conference slated for September.
Katerina Stoykova of Lexington-based Accents Publishing provides tips on how to get a book published.
And in a fascinating "driveway radio" conversation, writer, journalist, and poet Kevin Nance discusses with Silas House, “All These Ghosts,” the new book of poetry from the Kentucky Poet Laureate emeritus.
