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How to Publish a Literary Anthology
Friday, March 25, 2022
12:10 pm to 1:25 pm
Four panelists discuss the process of birthing a regional anthology from its inception to curation, assembly, publication, and marketing. Represented are editors from The Boom Project: Voices of a Generation (Butler Books, 2019), The Women of Appalachia Project's Women Speak annual anthology, and The Louisville Anthology (Belt Publishing, 2020).
Participants
Kimberly Garts Crum, MSW, MFA, writes creative nonfiction, teaches personal narrative, and is coeditor of The Boom Project: Voices of a Generation—a literary anthology of the Ohio River Valley. Kim is past chair of Louisville Literary Arts and current director of Women Who Write KY.
Bonnie Omer Johnson, author and coeditor of The Boom Project: Voices of a Generation, teaches at Bellarmine University and teaches food and travel writing and fiction classes at The Write Place in Louisville, Kentucky.
Erin Keane is editor in chief at Salon.com and author of three collections of poetry. She teaches at Spalding University's School of Creative and Professional Writing. She edited The Louisville Anthology, part of Belt Publishing's city series, and her memoir is forthcoming.
Kari Gunter-Seymour is the founder/director of the Women of Appalachia Project and editor of the WOAP "Women Speak" anthology series. She is the author of two books of poetry, the 2020 Ohio Poet of the Year, a recipient of an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship, and Ohio's poet laureate.
