Inside Look

The Bluegrass Writers Studio annually produces Jelly Bucket, a literary journal. The staff is made up of Bluegrass Writers Studio students and changes with each new issue. I'll be introducing you to the staff for Issue 7 in an upcoming blog, so stay tuned!

If you're currently a student at EKU (or graduated less than four years ago), I'm afraid you aren't eligible to submit your work to Jelly Bucket, but alumni that have been out in the real world for at least four years, and anyone who's not a student at EKU is more than welcome to submit! (View more details on that HERE.)

Bob, the director of the Bluegrass Writers Studio, and Julie, one of our amazing professors, are in North Carolina this week doing not one, but two readings at local bookshops. If you're near Davidson or Sunset Beach in North Carolina, go hear them read and get a book or two signed!

The first reading is tonight, June 10th at 5 PM at Main Street Books in Davidson, North Carolina. 

The second is next week, June 16th at 2 PM at Pelican Bookstore in Sunset Beach, North Carlina.

I'm sure Bob and Julie would love to see you!

Dear Deri,

Before my children learned to speak their mother tongue, they used sign language to communicate with others. Their vocabulary was limited to: please, thank you, more, and I’m sorry.  If those four words become the limits of our vocabulary, will that be enough?  Well, those 4 words and the word for coffee. Coffee is a given, right? Oh, and wine, and beer. Shoot, I think I just answered my own question.  I will need to get a Portuguese dictionary of libations and other useful phrases.

Dear Joey,

by Joey Burke and Deri Ross Pryor

If you are one of the lucky ducks going to Lisbon for the BGWS Summer Residency this year, first of all, I’m jealous. Second of all, if this is your first time going, there are many little things (that can add up to big things) that can catch you off guard. I’m by no means an expert in international travel in general, or Lisbon in particular, but I went last year and thought I would share all the little practical things I learned. Let my mistakes be your learning experiences.

BGWS student Joey Burke is going for the first time this year, and since I don’t fit in her suitcase as her personal guide we cooked up a little collaboration of Q&As to demystify the trip.

Dear Deri,