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Featured novel: Byrd, Snowflakes in a Blizzard, blog by Darrell Laurant, January 29, 2019
“Writing with Fire: How Acclaimed Novelist Kim Church Found Inspiration,” by Antionette Kerr, photos by Donnie Roberts, in Davidson Living Magazine, November 2017 (print-only)
“Thirteen Ways of Looking at Kim Church’s ‘Byrd’,” Andrew Hedglin, Lemuria Blog, July 20, 2017
Podcast: Anna Hayes and Kim Church on the Crook’s Corner Book Prize, interview by Melissa Clay of the UNC Institute of Arts and Humanities, January 2017
Podcast: Reading at N.C. Writers Network Fall Conference, November 2016
“My Assignment: Pick 12 Southern Writers,” Dannye Romine Powell, Charlotte Observer and Raleigh News & Observer, July 1, 2016
“Kim Church’s ‘Partial Index’ to Patti Smith’s ‘M Train’,” Dannye Romine Powell, Charlotte Observer, June 25, 2016
“Meet the North Carolina Arts Council’s Artist Fellowship Recipients,” North Carolina Arts Council, September 28, 2015
Podcast: Books on the Nightstand, author talk at Booktopia Asheville 2014, posted September 22, 2015
“$10,000 worth of validation for writers: N.C. Arts Council awards 13 fellowships to N.C. writers,” Dannye Romine Powell, Charlotte Observer, August 16, 2015
Summer Reading List, Journal de Jalune, August 2015
What to read: The books of summer 2015, Inside Jersey Magazine, July 2015
Video: North Carolina Bookwatch, UNC-TV (PBS), April 17, 2015
Video: North Carolina Now, UNC-TV (PBS), April 14, 2015
“Church’s ‘Byrd’ may fly her to a new place,” Deirdre Parker Smith, Salisbury Post, April 12, 2015
“Kim Church’s Five Most Memorable Books,” Charlotte Observer, March 30, 2015
“Authors and Readers Have a Good Time at Rowan Reading Rendezvous,” Deirdre Parker Smith, Salisbury Post, March 22, 2015
“Salisbury’s Reading Rendezvous,” Charlotte Observer, March 17, 2015
“Four N.C. Books for Spring,” D.G. Martin, Winston-Salem Journal, March 16, 2015
“Book Beat,” Raleigh News & Observer, January 26, 2015
“Authors, readers connect at 3rd ‘Movable Feast,'” Winston-Salem Journal, January 26, 2015
“Church, formerly of Lexington, wins award for her book, Byrd,” The Dispatch, January 22, 2015
“Top 5 Reads of 2014,” LibraryThing, January 9, 2015
“A Page from D.G. Martin’s Notebook,” WCHL, January 9, 2015 (audio)
“A Very Southern Book Prize,” Garden & Gun, January 8, 2015
“Assessing an active but stratified N.C. literary scene–plus, some cool 2014 titles you might have missed,” Brian Howe, The Independent Weekly, January 7, 2015
“Church Takes Home Second Crook’s Corner Book Prize,” Cliff Bellamy, Durham Herald Sun, January 5, 2015
“Byrd Wins Crook’s Corner Book Prize,” Danny Romine Powell, Reading Matters, Charlotte Observer, January 5, 2015
“The Best Debut Fiction of 2014,” Hungry for Good Books?, December 29, 2014
“Favorite Reads, 2014 Edition,” Kalen Landow, December 25, 2014
“My Favorite Reads of 2014,” Dannye Romine Powell, Charlotte Observer, December 21, 2014
Best New Books of 2014, Wake County Public Libraries, December 11, 2014
Interview by Barbara Presnell: Kim Church and Jack Riggs, The Lexington Dispatch, November 5, 2014
Video: “A Day with Kim Church,” author documentary by Anna Schwartz/Dzanc Books, October 2014
Interview by Bonnie ZoBell, West Coast Interviews, October 3, 2014
“Kim Church Talks about Byrd,” interview by Virginia Pye, Baked in a Pye, September 23, 2014
“These books will warm the cold days ahead,” Dannye Romine Powell, Charlotte Observer, September 5, 2014
“Debut novels set in the South,” Dannye Romine Powell, Reading Matters, August 19, 2014
“Balancing Act: Q&A with Novelist and Attorney Kim Church,” Fred Wasser, Mountain Xpress, Asheville, NC, August 17, 2014
“10 Great Summer Reads by North Carolina Authors,” N.C. Arts Council, Adventures in North Carolina Culture, July 2014
“Add These Titles to Your Reading Lists,” Jill Doss-Raines, The Lexington Dispatch, July 23, 2014
“A Great Reading List: The Long-List for a Prestigious First Novel Prize,” Dannye Romine Powell, Reading Matters, July 9, 2014
Audio: Interview by Fred Wasser on “Breathing Room: Jazz, Standards, & Conversation,” WCOM 103.5 FM, July 5, 2014. Listen online.
Audio: “Letters to the Unborn,” interview by Frank Stasio on “The State of Things,” WUNC 91.5 FM (NPR), July 2, 2014
Audio: Interview by D.G. Martin on “Who’s Talking,” WCHL 97.9 FM, June 14, 2014
Audio: Interview by Ben McNeely on “This is Raleigh,” Little Raleigh Radio, June 11, 2014
On redemption, plot twists, and the art of Wiley Quixote: interview by Mary Akers, r.kv.r.y quarterly literary journal, May 2014
“Native’s Book Takes Flight,” Jill Doss-Raines, The Dispatch, Lexington, NC, May 2014
“Author Uses Stint at UNCG as Foundation for First Novel,” by Linda C. Brinson, Greensboro News & Record, April 2014
“The Longing that Feeds Kim Church’s Byrd,” Dannye Romine Powell, Charlotte Observer, April 2014
“Adoption and Heartache in Greensboro,” Spencer Auten, The Carolinian, UNC-Greensboro, April 2014
“Raleigh Author Publishes Her First Novel,” Kevin deMontbrun, The Technician, N.C. State University, April 2014
“Debut Novel Set in North Carolina,” Faye Dasen, The Pilot, April 2014
“A Story of Love and Longing,” Andrea Weigl, Raleigh News & Observer, March 2014
On writing rituals, Southern influences, and the untold stories of birth parents: interview by Craig L. Gidney, Washington Independent Review of Books, March 2014
On reading musician bios and other guilty pleasures: interview by Nicole Bonia of Linus’s Blanket in Bloggers Recommend, March 2014
“How a Song Wants to Sound: An Interview with Kim Church,” Elaine Neil Orr, Fiction Writers Review, March 2014
On lawyering, writing as a second career, and what love’s got to do with it: interview by Sonya Chung, Bloom, March 2014
The TNB Self-Interview, The Nervous Breakdown, March 2014
Interview with Lauren Fortgang, narrator of Byrd the audio book, Audio Gals, February 2014