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London Book Fair 2024

t was 1950’s house wife day. At our booth at the London book fair. Thanks to H.A Stories Lucid house press Madville publishing Micheal Nelson Brandy Miller Jennae Elle Beaugard R.L Merril Abeni Celeste And so many other authors

Six Madville Books went to the London Book Fair

Our friends, Jade and Wilnona, the “And I Thought Ladies,” took six or our recent titles to the London Book Fair this year. These are some of the pictures they sent back. We expect a few more, so check back! We wish we could have joined them. It looks like they had a really great time in our tiny 2 meter by 2 meter booth.

Here is an article we just read that does a great job of describing the experience of the London book Fair. That NYT Piece about LBF??

Madville books on display

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Appalachian Studies Conference

Our Instagram ad to promote the 7 Madville authors who attended the 47th annual Appalachian Studies Conference. They are pictured here in thumbnail, Jim Minick, Linda Parsons, Darnell Arnoult, Pauletta Hansel, Susan O'Dell Underwood, Dana Wildsmith, and Lisa J. Parker

Our Madville poets did a fabulous job of representing us at the 47th Annual Appalachian Studies Conference

The theme was, Beloved Community: Pride in Identity, Culture, and Geography, and the conference took place March 7-9, 2024, at Western Carolina University, in Cullowhee, North Carolina. The Madville poets in attendance were Jim Minick (The Intimacy of Spoons), Linda Parsons (Valediction), Darnell Arnoult (Incantations), Pauletta Hansel (Heartbreak Tree), Susan O’Dell Underwood(Genesis Road and Splinter), and Lisa J. Parker (The Parting Glass and This Gone Place). (Dana Wildsmith (With Access to Tools) couldn’t make it.)

This is the first year we’ve attended this conference, but our poet, Jim Minick had this great idea… After all, we have so many wonderful poets from the region, It makes sense for us to participate in regional conferences. And look how happy they all are!

Madville poets, Lisa J. Parker and Pauletta Hansel manning the Madville table at the Appalachian Studies Conference
Madville Publishing poetry editor, Linda Parsons with another friend in poetry.
Madville poets Darnell Arnoult and Linda Parsons with a young poetry lover.
Madville poet, Jim Minick, reading from his new collection.
Copies of Linda Parsons' books on the Madville table at the Appalachian Studies Conference. The book has a bright pink cover and the title is Valediction. Linda has two other books from other press on the table as well, Candescence, and This Shaky Earth
Jesse Graves with Linda Parsons.
copies of Jim Minick's new book, The Intimacy of Spoons on the table to tempt poetry lovers to buy it.
The wonderful Pauletta Hansel grinning big. She's dressed all in red (she always is!)
Kari Gunter-Seymore with Linda Parsons. Both are white women with very light blond hair and glasses, and they have happy grins.
Sherry Stafort with Pauletta Hansel
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AWP24 came early

Madville author, Lee Zacharias poses in front of the AWP24 Conference & Bookfair banner in Kansas City.

We had a smaller showing at this year’s AWP conference. Kim didn’t attend, having begun her college career in Missouri, she could only think of the weather and the unpredictability of flights in early February in Kansas City. But of course, Madville has a number of authors who have no such aversion to the cold or fear of driving on icy roads, and they did attend and represented Madville happily.

Michael Simms, Madville author of Bicycles of the Gods, The Green Mage, and Windkeep, also edits the online journal, Vox Populi, and he invited us to share his table in the book fair. Our authors signed books and greeted potential readers all three of the afternoons at that table. In addition, we have friends at Hoot, who also shared Luanne Smith’s three anthologies (Muddy Backroads, Taboos & Transgressions, and Runaway) and Jodi Angel’s Biggest Little Girl.

Madville author, Lee Zacharias poses in front of the AWP24 Conference & Bookfair banner in Kansas City.
Andy Rooney (The Lesser Madonnas, The Autobiography of Francis N. Stein), Lee Zacharias (What a Wonderful World This Could Be), and Susanne Davis (Gravity Hill)
Michael Gills (Before All Who Have Ever Seen This Disappear), and Linda Ravenswood (a poem is a house)
Emily Chiles and Cherise Pollard
Madville board member, Cherise Pollard and ____.
Author Michael Gills with his poetry books on display.
Biggest Little Girl, Taboos & Transgressions, Muddy Backroads, and Runaway were on display and available to buy at the Hoot table.
Author Michael Gills with author Lee Zacharias.
Richard Bausch with Lee Zacharias.
Michael Simms with...
Madville's table cloth for AWP24. It shows as many of the new book covers as we could fit.

Thanks to Lee Zacharias for sharing her wonderful photos! (Also Michael Simms and Cherise Pollard!)

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Southern Festival of Books 2023

Map for the 2023 Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, Tennessee

We will be attending the Southern Festival of Books in 2023 It is in Nashville again this year, and we loved it so much last year, we can’t wait to get back. We look forward to seeing so many friends, especially, our wonderful Linda Parsons has a book that we published featured, Valediction. She’ll be there with us at booth number 27. Come see us there!

This will be the 35th annual Southern Festival of Books–among the oldest literary festivals in the country. It is free to attend with performance stages, food trucks, publishers and booksellers. (We’ll be at booth #27.)

Festival weekend (Oct. 21 and 22) takes place in downtown Nashville. The Festival grounds include Bicentennial Mall State Park, the Tennessee State Museum, and the Tennessee State Library and Archives. Read more at their website: https://sofestofbooks.org/schedule

At the sponsors dinner during the Southern Festival of books 2022. At back are Linda Parsons and Pauletta Hansel, and seated are Susan O'Dell Underwood, Kim Davis, and Jeff Hardin. All are glowing.