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Kesich vs Baker in Pennsylvania

This is grat­i­fy­ing to see, but Kesich doesn't rep­re­sent the typ­i­cal Miller­ton res­i­dent, either, many of whom I imag­ine will, like Steve Miller, take the mon­ey and run. And why wouldn't they?  To para­phrase my dad, these are most­ly life­long … Con­tin­ue read­ing

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Prizes Have Been Sent…

for the Bar­ry Han­nah Com­pe­ti­tion. Sor­ry it took so long to get them out to you. Thanks again, every­one, for enter­ing. Here's a Bar­ry H. inter­view from the Paris Review to warm you up this cool MA morn­ing. There’s a … Con­tin­ue read­ing

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Barry Hannah Competition–1st place, Jeff Crook

The End of the War Moth­er drove our exhaust­ed Toy­ota out of the shade of the trees, past a swath of sun­burned lawn lit­tered with bits of Sty­ro­foam where they had dragged the raft from the shed down to the lake. … Con­tin­ue read­ing

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Barry Hannah Competition 2nd Place–Charles Hale

The Wire Out For the sec­ond morn­ing in a row Lawrence leaned back in the chair onto two legs and away from the table and let go.  Count­less attempts at strik­ing the per­fect bal­ance so the chair would stay on two … Con­tin­ue read­ing

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Barry Hannah Competition 3rd Place–Nathan Gower

I'll be send­ing prize pack­ages out this Wednes­day. This is a good oppor­tu­ni­ty for oth­ers I've missed. If  you've been pub­lished in FCAC and you have not received a book from me please mail rusty.​barnes@​gmail.​com with your snail address. What’s … Con­tin­ue read­ing

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Massey Energy Faces Criminal Probe

Heard first on NPR, via my love­ly wife, and ver­i­fied by Reuters. WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) — Massey Ener­gy Co is under crim­i­nal inves­ti­ga­tion by the FBI after the dead­ly mine explo­sion ear­li­er this month in West Vir­ginia that killed 29, U.S. … Con­tin­ue read­ing

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Maurice Manning Reading

cour­tesy of Den­ton Loving:

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Tube Time

Here's some­thing you might be inter­est­ed in. PBS will be broad­cast­ing Appalachia: A His­to­ry of Moun­tains and Peo­ple Thurs­day, April 29 and con­tin­ue each Thurs­day through May 20. So if you missed it the first time around now's your chance to see … Con­tin­ue read­ing

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Old Fish, by Nathan Tyree

Down here the min­ing com­pa­nies built the towns. Every­one owed their liv­ing to the min­er­als com­ing from the bel­ly of the earth. Even if they didn't swing a pick in the dark, they worked at one of the room­ing hous­es, … Con­tin­ue read­ing

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Barry Hannah Memorial Competition Results

Results are in, and here are the prizes, if you've for­got­ten: First prize: pack­et of Han­nah books,  Air­ships, Ray, Geron­i­mo Rex, a $25.00 gift card from Barnes & Noble Sec­ond prize: Rose Met­al Press Field Guide to Writ­ing Flash Fic­tion and my book Break­ing it Down. … Con­tin­ue read­ing

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