Here's wishing everyone a very blessed Christmas and the best new year ever. Remember that on January 1st our membership blitz will be starting and dues are only $20 until the first meeting on Tuesday, February 11th. Hope to see lots of renewals and more new members join with us for 2025. The Tidings newsletter will be going out in January to let you know all the good things coming for 2025. Great speakers and workshops coming up!!!
You can contact me at vfletcher56@gmail.com  OR  276-492-8314

Golden NIB 2024

Here are the winners of the 2024 Golden NIB contest. If you places 1st, 2nd, or 3rd, you must be a member of VWC to advance to state. The 1st place entries have been sent. They will send for the 2nd and 3rd place entries to be included in the journal soon.
Fiction:
1st place- Tickets by Chrissie Anderson Peters
2nd place- The Last Great Pilgrimage by Damean Mathews
3rd place- Nothing Can Be Done by Linda Hudson Hoagland
Honorable Mention- An Impossible Choice by Dan Swanson
Nonfiction:
1st place- Living Off the Land by Dan Swanson
2nd place- Meeting Neil Gaiman by Chrissie Anderson Peters
3rd place- No Mistake by Linda Hudson Hoagland
Honorable Mention- Lessons from the Cool Cat by Donna Hankla
Poetry:
1st place- Before the Dawn by Chrissie Anderson Peters
2nd place- Lavender Fields by Susan Dickenson
3rd place- She's Gone by Victoria Fletcher
Honorable Mention- Forever Seventeen by Dan Swanson and
       Green Grass and Sassafras by Cody Hester

Thank you to everyone that took part in such short notice. I plan to be on time next year and get the information to you sooner. But you always impress me with your writing and all the diversity we have in our group. Good luck to the 1st place winners moving on to state.

AAG Books for Your Reading Pleasure

Mountain Mist: AAG Anthology of 2018  $10 + $2 for shipping

From Appalachian Kitchens: AAG Cookbook $10 + $2 for shipping

Mountain Voices: AAG Anthology of 2021  $10 + $2 for shipping

From Appalachian Kitchens: AAG Cookbook #2  $15 + $2 shipping

Below is a link for the Foundation for Appalachian Advancement's Go Fund Me page. The director of this organization is our own vice president, JC Schweingrouber so I hope you will support this organization.
Foundation for Appalachian Advancement's Go Fund Me Page on Facebook