Write Around the CornerWrite Around the Corner

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A series featuring authors who are from Virginia or who write about Virginia. Recorded on location, each half hour interview delves into the stories behind the stories.

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12 Episodes

  • Deanna Raybourn
    E1
    Deanna RaybournWe visit the Williamsburg Botanical Garden and talk with New York Times bestselling author Deanna Raybourn. We’ll learn about the intrepid lepidopterist, Veronica Speedwell, star of Raybourn’s Victorian mystery series.
  • Cameron MacKenzie
    E2
    Cameron MacKenzieWhen you hear the name Pancho Villa do you think bandit, or hero, or scoundrel, or maybe, Robin Hood for the poor peasants in Mexico? Explore a complex Pancho Villa in Cameron MacKenzie’s debut novel, The Beginning of His Excellent and Eventful Career.
  • Kristin Wright
    E3
    Kristin WrightWe visit with Kristin Wright in Brookneal. Her southern gothic novel, Lying Beneath The Oaks, is twisty, romantic and full of suspense.
  • Jim Minick
    E4
    Jim MinickWe visit the Settlers Museum in Atkins to talk with Jim Minick about his book, Fire is Your Water, Winner of the 2017 Appalachian Book of the Year for fiction. This novel explores what it means to heal and what it means to have faith in God and in each other.
  • Martin Clark
    E5
    Martin ClarkOn the docket this week is Martin Clark’s latest legal thriller, The Substitution Order. We talk with the best-selling author and retired judge in the courtroom of the Patrick County Courthouse in Stuart, VA.
  • Frank Kilgore
    E6
    Frank KilgoreWe travel to St. Paul and the Mountain Heritage Museum and Gallery where we’ll talk with Frank Kilgore about his book, Far Southwest Virginia: A Postcard and Photographic History.
  • K. E. Lanning
    E7
    K. E. LanningWe’ll talk with science fiction writer K. E. Lanning about The Melt Trilogy which explores humanity and the future.
  • Jean Huets
    E8
    Jean HuetsWalt Whitman has often been called “the poet of democracy, America’s Bard.” We’ll visit with Jean Huets in Richmond to discuss With Walt Whitman, Himself. Her book celebrates the 200th anniversary year of Whitman’s birth by taking you into his world and times through words and pictures.
  • Kim Michele Richardson
    E9
    Kim Michele RichardsonThis episode finds us in neighboring North Carolina to talk with Kim Michele Richardson about her multi-award winning novel, The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, a riveting journey through Appalachia with a pack horse librarian in 1936.
  • Ken Woodley
    E10
    Ken WoodleyFor five years, beginning in 1959, Prince Edward County closed its public schools in response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education decision. More than 2,000, predominately black students, were denied a formal education and lives were forever changed. We travel to the Moton Museum in Farmville to talk about The Road to Healing: A Civil Rights Reparations Story.
  • Linda Kay Simmons
    E11
    Linda Kay SimmonsWe visit with Linda Kay Simmons in Moneta to talk about her novel, Lightning Shall Strike. It tells a haunting story that spans multiple generations in rural Virginia.
  • Mindy Quigley
    E12
    Mindy QuigleyFind out about the Lindsay Harding Mystery Trilogy. It's a dose of southern life, history, and murder all interwoven with a dash of humor!

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