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BGWS Emerging Writer Award Winners
Congratulations to these talented MFA students!Andrew Analore, Darian Bianco, and K. Ka’imilani Leota Sellers will read during the BGWS Summer Residency this July.
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June 17, 2020 Dear BGWS Students,These last few months have been challenging. The global pandemic has killed over 100,000 people in the U.S., and we are grieving this tremendous loss. There has been...
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Introducing Whitney Cooper, Editor-in-Chief of Jelly Bucket issue #11
Whitney Cooper, a Georgia native, is a graduate of Georgia State University. She currently lives in the Jacksonville, FL area and is a student in the Bluegrass Writers Studio low-res MFA program. An...
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Announcing a New Decade for Jelly Bucket
As excited as we were to celebrate a decade of Jelly Bucket this year with issue #10, we're even more excited about the next 10 issues of Jelly Bucket. We will mark the second decade of Jelly Bucket...
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BGWS Professors' novels selected for The Women’s National Book Association...
Recent novels by two Bluegrass Writers Studio professors have been honored as Great Group Reads for 2020. Nancy Jensen's In Our Midst (Dzanc, 2020) and Carter Sickels's The Prettiest Star (Hub City,...
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Introducing Jelly Bucket's guest editor for the Black Lives Matter special...
LYRAE VAN CLIEF-STEFANON is the author of Open Interval, a finalist for the National Book Award and the LA Times Book Prize and, and Black Swan, winner of the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, as well as...
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University Press of Kentucky: The Marketing Internship Experience
By Darian Bianco, Bluegrass Writers Studio When I was interviewing for an internship position in the marketing department at the University Press of Kentucky, I was asked, “What do you hope to get out...
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What I Learned about Writing during the Pandemic
by Crystal McQueen For me, 2020 started just like any other year. Full of promise. Full of expectations, goals, and resolutions. Then, just when the weather started to warm up—boom! —enter the global...
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Announcing the Editor-in-Chief of Jelly Bucket Issue #12
Eric Willis lives and works in Lexington, Kentucky. He is a writer, reader, world traveler, visual artist, pharmacist, and avid amateur pickleball player. As a student of the Bluegrass Writers...
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Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle named Guest Editor for Jelly Bucket's Indigenous...
Our guest editor for Jelly Bucket #12's special section, Indigenous Voices— Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle!read more
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Summer Reading Series
All events are FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!Monday, July 11Alysia Li Ying Sawchyn 6:00 p.m. Madison County Public Library, 507 W. Main St., RichmondWednesday, July 13 Kris Lackey6:00 p.m. Berea Arts...
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Announcing the Editor-in-Chief for Jelly Bucket issue #13
Bailey Vandiver is a third-year student in Creative Nonfiction at Eastern Kentucky University’s Bluegrass Writers Studio. Born and raised in Bowling Green, Kentucky, she now lives in Lexington with her...
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Book Review: These Prisoning Hills
On Southern Sci-FiBy Darian BiancoGrowing up as an only child on my grandparents’ farmland, I was hungry for the impossible. I caught the bug early on, and any book called “unrealistic” was a book I...
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Lydia Conklin named as Guest Editor for Jelly Bucket #13's Special Section:...
Lydia Conklin has received a Stegner Fellowship, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award, three Pushcart Prizes, a Creative Writing Fulbright in Poland, a grant from the Elizabeth George Foundation, a...
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Bluegrass Writers Studio Adds Two More Program Honors
On November 21, Eastern Kentucky University’s Low-Res MFA in Creative Writing program, Bluegrass Writers Studio, was named an Editor’s Choice for Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing programs by...
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Meet Jelly Bucket's Alumni Editor
Our alumni editor for issue #13's special section: Non-Binary/Trans Voices is Edy Thomas!Edy Thomas is a nonbinary lesbian artist from rural Appalachia with an MFA in Creative Writing from the...
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