Voices of West Virginia
free!
Enjoy deep-dive audio visits with nationally-celebrated West Virginia writers.
Explore writing activities for all ages.
These writers are all West Virginians. They're national award-winners, poet laureates and storytellers. They grew up in WV small towns, up mountain roads, on farms, in coal camps, in towns. As they grew, they soaked up stories that helped them write their own stories later on. Their stories are our stories.
Get to know them and their writing on this web site, for free. Go to the "Listen" tab, and hear them talk about their lives and read from their own stories and poems. They give you solid writing advice. And after you listen awhile, you may start to think ... maybe I have stories to tell too. Or you may feel a little prouder, knowing that all these wonderful writers come from your state.
This website features writers for all ages.
It was created to make it easy for West Virginians to get to know a great collection of our writers ... and make it easier for teachers to weave them into the school day, to help inspire students and give them role models.
It costs you nothing, 24/7!
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See the About page for the site history, mission, and a quick guide to the menu.
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See the Listen tab for an audio conversation with each writer!
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See the Activities pages for writing exercises for all ages.
Our home base is Marshall University Libraries. These conversations first aired on West Virginia Public Radio.
This is great stuff!
See our sister website, five more voices, to get to know more outstanding West Virginia writers.
"The perception of West Virginia as a literary backwater was thoroughly demolished by these programs."
~ WV Graffiti Weekly