Jane Ellen Freeman
email: janefreemanbooks@gmail.com
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If you are able to get a copy of this anthology, be sure to read the 2021 WV Fiction Competition First Place story "Mr. Kindness" by D.W. Gregory. If you are acquainted with WV writers, look for wonderful poetry by Marc Harshman, a beautifully written story by M. Lynne Squires "What he didn't Hear," two poignant poems by award-winning Anna Smucker, a creative non-fiction piece "Feisty Women" by Carter Taylor Seaton, and many, many others.
Marie Manilla is the featured writer in this Vol. XIV of the annual anthology. Manilla describes her own writing: "My work explores the human condition, in all our frailties and glories." One of Manilla's best known works is The  Patron Saint of Ugly.

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     This little poem was written several years ago.
    It seemed to fit the mood of the Anthology of Appalachian Writers.
    I am happily surprised to see it published.
    It is the first poem I have ever submitted for publishing. 

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Photos above and below are from Amelia Island, FL Book Fair 2016

The photo above was my SCBWI Rising Kite Award for ten pages of Trapped on Ockor, a YA soft sci-fi novel. Judge was Laura Whitaker.

Tamarack, WV
​2015 Book signing

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Tamarack, WV Book signing

Costume party. Dressing as a favorite character. I chose Solveig from Matthew J. Kirby's terrific MG story ICEFALL.
The party was at the 2015 SCBWI winter conference in Miami, FL. On Solveig's shoulder is her pet raven Muninn.

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SCBWI Pittsburgh, PA 2015

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Rising Kite Award for
Beyond the Stone Eagle Gate,
Miami SCBWI Jan 15, 2017.
This historical fiction ghost story
​was published in 2019.

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