Cedar Creek Publishing

In celebration of National Poetry Month, Virginia's Poet Laureate Sofia M. Starnes is asking Virginians to share their nearest and dearest memory of a poem for her Nearest Poem Anthology to be published by Cedar Creek Publishing in 2014. Sofia M.

A day-long symposium in Virginia for writers of all ages and all stages with keynote address by Charles J. Shields, New York Times best selling author of Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee and And So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut: A Life.

Raised in the little town of Elkton, Virginia, in the heart of the Shenandoah Valley, Sara Robinson grew up in one of only two Jewish families in the community. She shares the milestones of her childhood and small town life in her new book of poetry

Gary D. Kessler's new mystery novel, WHAT THE SPIDER SAW, is inspired by an historical and legendary murder case that occured in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 1904 and is spun into a current-day fictional drama with many parallels.