Appalachian Writers Forum Appalachian Heritage

Literary magazine published in Berea, KY.

Has anyone read? Clay's Quilt and Parchment of Leaves were both excellent novels.



Silas House is the author of the novels Clay�s Quilt (2001), A Parchment of Leaves (2003), and The Coal Tattoo (2004), as well as the play The Hurting Part (2005). House was born in Whitley County, Kentucky in 1971 and grew up in a working-class family. He has received many honors, including the Appalachian Book the Year, the Award of Special Achievement from the Fellowship of Southern Writers, the Chaffin Award for Literature, two Kentucky Literary Prizes for Novel of the Year (2003 and 2005), and the fiction prize from the National Society of Arts and Letters. House is a two-time finalist for both the Southern Book Critics Circle Prize and the SEBA Book of the Year. All of his novels have been BookSense picks.

House has been published in such places as Newsday, The Oxford American, The Beloit Fiction Journal, Bayou, the Southeast Review, Night Train, and in the anthologies Shouts and Whispers; New Stories From the South: The Year�s Best, 2004; Of Woods and Water; The Kentucky Anthology; The Encyclopedia of Appalachia; Missing Mountains; The Alumni Grill; Stories From the Blue Moon Caf� (Volumes One and Two); Christmas in the South; and many others. House was recently chosen to write the introduction for the biography of Earl Hamner, Jr. (the creator of �The Waltons�) and the introduction for the HarperCollins reissue of Gregory of Nyssa�s Life of Moses.

House is a contributing editor for No Depression magazine, where he has done features on such artists as Nickel Creek, Kelly Willis, Darrel Scott, Lucinda Williams, Delbert McClinton, and many others. One of Nashville�s most in-demand press kit writers, House has written the bios of artists like Kris Kristofferson, Tim O�Brien, Leann Womack, The Del McCoury Band, and many others. House has served as a columnist for the Lexington Herald-Leader and a contributor to NPR�s �All Things Considered.� A frequent column in the Courier-Journal is forthcoming.

House is writer-in-residence at Lincoln Memorial University, where he also directs the Mountain Heritage Literary Festival. He lives in Eastern Kentucky with his wife and two daughters. House has recently finished his fourth novel, which will be published in 2007. He is also currently collaborating with actress Ashley Judd on a screenplay that will be filmed in 2007. He is at work on his fifth novel, which is set during the Civil War.