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"The best thing about being an artist, instead of a madman or someone who writes letters to the editor, is that you get to engage in satisfying work. Even if you never publish a word, you have something important to pour yourself into."

- Anne Lamott in Bird by Bird 

 
 Nonfiction
  • "Really Good for a Girl" leads the anthology She's Such a Geek: Women Write About Science, Technology and Other Nerdy Stuff

    Available at your favorite independent/local bookstore, or         here on amazon.com

 Poetry  

  • "Still, My Daughter Wants to Fly" is forthcoming in Outscape: Writings on Fences and Frontiers, the 2008 Knoxville Writers' Guild anthology.
     
  • "Lesson from John" is forthcoming in Rock & Sling.
     
  • "White Girl" and "Music Lesson" appear in Number One, 2008.
     
  • "Where I'm From," after George Ella Lyon, Anne Shelby, and many others, received 2nd place in the Bat Creek Journal poetry contest and is forthcoming in that journal.
     
  • "Phenomena" appears in Kudzu, 2007.  The poem received an honorable mention in Kudzu's 2007 poetry prize, judged by Kelly Norman Ellis.
  • "Seating Arrangement" appears in Low Explosions: Writings on the Body, an anthology of poetry and prose from the Knoxville Writers' Guild. More info and ordering info

 Short Stories

  • Kory's short story "Trade Day" is included in Muscadine Lines: A Southern Anthology from Cold Tree Press, edited by Kathy Hardy Rhodes. "Trade Day" also received recognition from both the Alabama Writers Conclave and the St. Louis-based Saturday Writers competitions.

    The anthology is available at bookstores and on online.     Contact Kory for a signed copy, or order from amazon.com, Barnes and Noble, or Cold Tree Press    .

     
  • "Moving the Bar" was published in the Spring 2006 issue of Active Culture/Birmingham Arts Journal (also available in pdf download)