Barbara Wade
Women Writing in Berea: Exploring Inner and Outer Voices
3:30 p.m.
Session 2
After panelists each share a short passage of spiritual autobiography, they will lead participants in a writing exercise drawing on inner and outer voices. Participants will discuss their writings in small groups. Panelists will provide materials for continued explorations.
Barbara Wade is a professor of English at Berea College, where she teaches literature, writing, and women’s studies courses. Her poetry and essays have recently appeared or are forthcoming in the Appalachian Heritage Magazine, Appalachian Journal, Florida Review Chapbook, River Walk Journal, Women’s Studies Quarterly, I To I: Life Writing by Kentucky Feminists, and Poetry as Prayer: Appalachian Women Speak. Her book Frances Newman: Southern Satirist and Literary Rebel was published in 1998 by the University of Alabama Press.