Cathryn Hankla

Upcoming Events:

September 13, 4-6PM: The Workshop at Timber Ridge, Lexington, VA

October 18, tba, Southern Festival of the Book, Nashville, TN

EVENTS 2025:

February 9, 2PM: Book No Further, Roanoke VA, Book Launch for Return to a Certain Region of Consciousness: New & Selected Poems

February 23, 4PM: Flutes Wine Lounge, Lynchburg, VA

March 2, 2PM: Scuppernong Books, Greensboro, NC

March 20-22: Appalachian Studies Association Conference, Cookeville, TN, 2 events

March 30, 5PM, Market Gallery, Roanoke, VA

April 6, 4:30PM: Malaprops, Asheville, NC

April 10, 7PM: Blacksburg Books, Blacksburg, VA

April 23, 6PM: The Bookmatters, Milford, OH

Writers' Retreat & Workshop with Cathryn Hankla

August 17-22, Writer's Retreat and Workshop in August, St Francis Springs, Stoneville, NC/FULL

"Write Around the Corner" link to view program

For info on manscript reviews (prose and poetry) & poetry tutorials, and annual retreat/workshop: hanklatome@yahoo.com

BOOKS BY CATHRYN HANKLA

POETRY:

Return to a Certain Region of Consciousess: New & Selected Poems

Immortal Stuff: prose poems

Not Xanadu
Galaxies
Great Bear --Finalist for the Library of Virginia Poetry Prize
Last Exposures
Poems for the Pardoned
Emerald City Blues
Texas School Book Depository-- Finalist for the Library of Virginia Poetry Prize
Negative History
Afterimages
Phenomena

FICTION:
Fortune Teller Miracle Fish
The Land Between
A Blue Moon in Poorwater
Learning the Mother Tongue

NONFICTION:
Lost Places: On Losing and Finding Home

BRIEF BIO of Cathryn Hankla:

Born in the Appalachian mountain town of Richlands, Virginia, Cathryn Hankla is professor emerita of Hollins University, where she spent most of her academic career. She directed the Jackson Center for Creative Writing, chaired the English & Creative Writing Department, served as Poetry Editor of The Hollins Critic (1996-2023), and was appointed Jackson Professor of Creative Writing.

Hankla has published sixteen books in multiple genres, including IMMORTAL STUFF (prose poems), NOT XANADU (poetry), LOST PLACES: On Losing and Finding Home (a memoir in essays), GALAXIES (poetry), GREAT BEAR (poetry), FORTUNE TELLER MIRACLE FISH (stories), and A BLUE MOON IN POORWATER (novel).

Hankla's poems, stories, and essays appear regularly in journals such as New World Writing, Arts & Letters, Jubilat, Appalachian Heritage, Denver Quarterly, North American Review, and Alaska Quarterly. Her writing has been awarded the James Boatwright III Poetry Prize, a PEN Syndicated Fiction Prize, a Virginia Commission for the Arts grant in poetry, and Hankla has enjoyed artist's fellowships in the US and abroad in Malta, Spain, and France. Her poetry ranges through forms, received and invented, including prose poems. It is anthologized in The Southern Poetry Anthology, IX: Virginia, A Literary Field Guide to Southern Appalachia, World English Poetry, The Southern Poetry Anthology, Shenandoah: 20 Years of Poetry, and Mississippi Review Anthology, and others. 

Hankla exhibits artwork at Market Gallery, Roanoke, and enjoys run/strolling along the Roanoke River Greenway, hiking and camping.