CELEBRATE WITH US
Saturday, December 6, 2025
11 am to 2 pm
Highlands Museum & Discovery Center 1620 Winchester Ave., Ashland, KY.
Talk to the 30 Boyd County young women poets featured in the book. Buy a copy and get loads of autographs.
A great gift!
Five-Star Reviews for a unique mixture of great stories, writing and listening advice, and the voices of Kentucky young women.

In 240 pages, A Pencil Grows in Kentucky weaves together listening lessons, creative writing lessons, and true stories of amazing Appalachian women of Kentucky. Best of all, the book features the powerful poetry of 70 young women from her Appalachia Girl Dreaming workshop.

Bravo to our cover artist Shade Hatmaker.

An inspiring read for dreamers

and writers of all ages.

$14.95

Every dollar from this book purchase

goes directly to Why We Write to help us

create more free writing programs.

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Students Listen

Image of school children with Jacqueline Hamilton, Executive Director, and our blue sea turtle stuffed animal

Our camp director Mizz JJ loves to visit schools and read stories she has written. A group of students at Strode Station Elementary School in Winchester, enjoyed her story Ocean Eyes about a blue sea turtle.

Writers are

shell-ebrities

A photo of our blue stuffed animal sea turte.