In Honor of Danny Miller

Date: Saturday, September 26, 2009

Time: 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. (see schedule below)

Location: Greaves Concert Hall, Northern Kentucky University

Registration: Click here for printable Advance Registration Form

Schedule of Events

9:00-10:00 a.m. -- Registration in lobby of Greaves Concert Hall

10:00-11:30 a.m. -- Roundtable on the Future of Appalachian Literature, Greaves Concert Hall (doors open at 9:30)

    MODERATOR: Laura Sutton, editor of Appalachian literature at University Press of Kentucky.

    PANELISTS: Richard Hague, poetry includes Ripening and Alive in a Hard Country;
      Chris Holbrook, author of Hell and Ohio: Stories of Southern Appalachia and Upheaveal: Stories;
      Jeff Mann, author of Edge and Loving Mountains, Loving Men;
      Frank X Walker, author of Affrilachia and When Winter Come, editor of PLUCK!
      Marianne Worthington, author of Larger Bodies than Mine and Motif: Writing by Ear;

11:45-1:00 -- Memorial Luncheon for Danny Miller, University Center Ballroom

Presentation of awards to winners of the Danny Miller Appalachian student writing contest.

Keynote address: Gurney Norman and Frank X Walker in dialogue.

1:30 – 2:45 p.m. Public Reading by Three Kentucky Writers, Greaves Concert Hall (doors open at 1:00)

    READERS: Gurney Norman, author of Kinfolks and poet laureate of Kentucky;

       Crystal Wilkinson, author of Blackberries, Blackberries and Water Street;

      Wendell Berry, poet, novelist, essayist.

3:00 – 4:30 p.m. Festive Reception, Greaves Hall Band Room

Light refreshments; book signings; sale of books, limited edition Larkspur Press keepsake, and other memorials

Music by Sherry Cook Stanforth and her Appalachian bands, Tellico and Sunset Dawn.

Registration Information

Roundtable and reception are free of charge.
Advance registration required for the memorial luncheon.
Advance registration recommended for the public reading.
Advance registration can be made after June 1 by completing and mailing the Advance Registration Form.
All proceeds go to the Danny Miller Memorial Fund.

Contact person

For more information, send an email to Bob Wallace at wallacer@nku.edu

Warm-Up Event

7:30 p.m., Friday, September 25, at InkTank, 1311 Main Street, Cincinnati, Ohio (doors open at 7:00 p.m.)

Special keepsake items for sale on the day of the event (proceeds to benefit the Miller Memorial fund)

In Honor of Danny Miller, a limited edition keepsake publication by Larkspur Press, Monterey, Kentucky. (Crystal Wilkinson's Terrain inserted into James Still's Heritage, by Frank X Walker).

25th Anniversary Edition of The Journal of Kentucky Studies with works dedicated to the memory of Danny Miller.

Danny Lester Miller, July 9, 1949—November 9, 2008 (ed. Barbara Houghton and Beth Sweeney), a keepsake book inspired by the memorial service in Greaves Concert Hall on November 15, 2008, supplemented with pictures and other materials from Danny’s life.

Danny L. Miller’s book entitled Wingless Flights: Appalachian Women in Fiction (Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1996), a pioneering critical study of women in Appalachian literature.

Other sale items

Books by participating authors in the day's event will be available for sale by the NKU Bၼookstore.

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