W.Va. Isn't On the Map: ; Residents Used to Not Getting Much Notice

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For the Sunday Gazette-Mail

At the 2004 West Virginia Book Festival in Charleston, the Literary Map of West Virginia was unveiled. A friend told me I was "on the back of the map," but the map creator told me gently, "You are not." She had merely mentioned me in a recent program in St. Albans as a local writer.

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W.Va. Isn't On the Map: ; Residents Used to Not Getting Much Notice

It's the story of my life: honorable mention. Silly to dream that a poet and an amateur fiction writer might some day keep company with world class novelists like Mary Lee Settle or Denise Giardina, not to mention many other fine writers. (Is Dave Peyton on the map?). I realize the difference between being...

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