Winter Burrow
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
Events marked with an (*) are open to the public.
For concurrent session descriptions, visit our Presenters & Sessions page.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13
10am-12pm
12pm
1pm
Registration and Check-In
Welcome and Lunch
Concurrent Session 1
- Joy is Resistance (Welch)
- Reclaiming Our Past One Byte at a Time (Fisanick)
- Field Notes for a Vanishing World (Richardson)
2pm
Concurrent Session 2
- Keeping Hope Alive (Pennington)
- Devotion to the Discarded (Snapp)
- Shaped by the Mountains (Anderson, Chaney, and Hall)
3pm
4pm
Featured Artist Session: Lacy Hale
Concurrent Session 3
- Appalachian Writers Project (Nagle)
- Places, Spaces, and the Holes We Carve Our (Childers)
5pm
6pm
Verna Mae Slone Keynote: Misty Skaggs
Supper
7pm
8pm
9pm
Carcassonne Style “Big Set” Square Dance
Marketplace and Social Art Time
Cocoa & Crankies with Sarah Kate Morgan
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14
8am
9am
Breakfast
Concurrent Session 4
- We’ve Been Here Before (Pennington)
- In Our Own Handwriting (Townsend & Stump)
- Making Do (Farthing)
10am
Concurrent Session 5
- Crafting Legacy (Rose-Bowman, Counts, Hamilton, Bowman, Lane, & Pierce)
- Had I a Dove (Downer)
- Writing Nationally about Appalachia (Welch)
11am
12pm
1pm
2pm
Featured Writer Session: Manuel Iris
Lunch
Ironwood Students: A Reading
Concurrent Session 6
- Found Poetry through Erasure (Worthington)
- Stitching Narratives (Radtke)
- Life Stories Told in Song (Turner & Preston)
- Archive Open House (Insalaco)
3pm
Concurrent Session 7
- Collaborative Civic Imagination (Waters)
- Hope for Our Language (Holt)
- Leaving the Path (Asbury)
4pm
Concurrent Session 8
- Hopeful, Not Hurtful (Helton)
- A Beacon of Joy (Benson)
5pm
6pm
7pm
Holiday Carols with Coal Town Dixie
Supper
Marketplace and Social Art Time
SUNDAY, DECEMBER 15
8am
9am
10am-12pm
Breakfast
Sing-along with Sarah Kate Morgan
Check-Out – Safe travels home!
