All past winners are currently honored by a plaque in the library. Click on the years below to check out some of the works by these authors. This is a work in progress. Please be patient.
2022: Barbara Kingsolver
2021: Marie Manilla
2020: Dorothy Allison
2019: Crystal Wilkinson
2018: Karen Spears Zacharias
2017: Wiley Cash
2016: Charles Frazier
2015: Nikki Giovanni
2014:Homer Hickam
2013: Frank X Walker
2012: Gretchen Moran Laskas
2011: Ron Rash
2010: Bobbie Ann Mason
2009: Silas House
"The Appalachian Heritage Writer's Award and Appalachian Heritage Writer-in-Residence Project were developed by the Department of English at Shepherd University in 1998 to celebrate and honor the work of a distinguished contemporary Appalachian writer." --description from project's website
Shepherd University Appalachian Heritage Writer-in-Residence.
More works of Appalachian writers (poetry, fiction, essay, memoir, etcetera) can be found in the Anthology of Appalachian Writers, a publication created as part of the Writer-in-Residence program and the Appalachian Studies program.