Sunday with Friends 2025
Posted December 10th, 2024 in
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.
Sunday with Friends: Felicia Mitchell
Abingdon 205 Oak Hill Street, Abingdon, VA, United StatesMeet Felicia Mitchell, whose new collection of poems, “Trail Magic,” is inspired by hikes around southwest Virginia and other places. Whether you are an avid hiker, an armchair naturalist, or […]
Sunday with Friends: Good Ol’ Girls
Abingdon 205 Oak Hill Street, Abingdon, VA, United StatesIn a career spanning more than fifty years, from “The Last Day the Dogbushes Bloomed” in 1968 to “Silver Alert” in 2023, through twelve novels and four collections of short […]
Sunday with Friends: Books About Abingdon History
Abingdon 205 Oak Hill Street, Abingdon, VA, United StatesMeet three regional writers who have researched and dramatized portions of Abingdon’s history. Bonny Gable’s “The Martha Odyssey” imagines life at Martha Washington College in 1915, focusing on an aspiring […]
Sunday with Friends: Erika Howsare
Abingdon 205 Oak Hill Street, Abingdon, VA, United StatesMeet 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 […]
Sunday with Friends: William Sikes
Abingdon 205 Oak Hill Street, Abingdon, VA, United StatesMeet 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 […]
Sunday with Friends: Mark Powell
Abingdon 205 Oak Hill Street, Abingdon, VA, United StatesMeet 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 […]
Sunday with Friends: Celebration of Regional Poetry
Abingdon 205 Oak Hill Street, Abingdon, VA, United StatesMeet 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 […]
Sunday with Friends: Rick Van Noy
Abingdon 205 Oak Hill Street, Abingdon, VA, United StatesMeet 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 […]
Sunday with Friends: Francis Gary Powers, Jr.
Abingdon 205 Oak Hill Street, Abingdon, VA, United StatesMeet 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 […]