Sunday with Friends has long been Abingdon’s premier series of visiting author events.
In 2025, the Friends of the Washington County Public Library is excited to present a variety of writers of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and essays on a variety of timely and thought-provoking subjects, plus a musical dramatization of literary characters from the works of Appalachian novelist Lee Smith.
Mark your calendar to spend some fun literary Sunday afternoons with the Friends at the library in Abingdon this winter and spring.
Sinking Spring Presbyterian Church
136 East Main St, Abingdon, United States
Meet Erika Howsare, the author of "The Age of Deer: Trouble and Kinship with Our Wild Neighbors." In this masterful hybrid of nature writing and cultural studies, Howsare investigates our […]
Sinking Spring Presbyterian Church
136 East Main St, Abingdon, United States
Meet William Sikes, the author of “The End of Meaning: Cultural Change in America Since 1945.” Toward the end of the 20th century, many became anxious about the collapse and […]
Sinking Spring Presbyterian Church
136 East Main St, Abingdon, United States
Meet Mark Powell, the novelist whom Ron Rash has called “the best Appalachian novelist of the current generation.” His seventh novel is “The Late Rebellion,” a dramatization of social changes […]
Sinking Spring Presbyterian Church
136 East Main St, Abingdon, United States
Meet Jane Hicks, the Kingsport, Tennessee poet, who has recently published a new volume of poetry, “The Safety of Small Things.” The poems in this collection juxtapose the splendor and […]
Sinking Spring Presbyterian Church
136 East Main St, Abingdon, United States
Meet Rick Van Noy, a Radford University English professor and environmental activist, who will speak about his work, “Sudden Spring: Stories of Adaptation in a Climate-Changed South.” Using creative non-fiction […]
Abingdon
205 Oak Hill Street, Abingdon, VA, United States
Meet Francis Gary Powers, Jr. the co-author, with Christopher Sturdevant, of “Cold War Virginia.” Virginia played a central role in United States involvement during the Cold War. With doomsday operations […]