Reviews<\/a> | Articles & Interviews<\/a> | Essays on Writing<\/a> | Excerpts<\/a><\/p>\n Featured novel: Byrd<\/em>, Snowflakes in a Blizzard<\/a>, blog by Darrell Laurant, January 29, 2019<\/p>\n “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)<\/p>\n “Thirteen Ways of Looking at Kim Church’s ‘Byrd’,<\/a>” Andrew Hedglin,\u00a0Lemuria Blog, July 20, 2017<\/p>\n Podcast:<\/strong> Anna Hayes and Kim Church on the Crook’s Corner Book Prize<\/a>, interview by Melissa Clay of the UNC Institute of Arts and Humanities, January 2017<\/p>\n Podcast:<\/strong> Reading<\/a> at N.C. Writers Network Fall Conference, November 2016<\/p>\n “My Assignment: Pick 12 Southern Writers<\/a>,”\u00a0Dannye Romine Powell, Charlotte Observer and Raleigh News & Observer, July 1, 2016<\/p>\n “Kim Church’s ‘Partial Index’ to Patti Smith’s ‘M Train’<\/a>,” Dannye Romine Powell, Charlotte Observer, June 25, 2016<\/p>\n “Meet the North Carolina Arts Council’s Artist Fellowship Recipients<\/a>,” North Carolina Arts Council, September 28, 2015<\/p>\n Podcast:<\/strong> Books on the Nightstand<\/a>, author talk at\u00a0Booktopia Asheville 2014, posted September 22, 2015<\/p>\n “$10,000 worth of validation for writers: N.C. Arts Council awards 13 fellowships to N.C. writers<\/a>,” Dannye Romine Powell, Charlotte Observer, August 16, 2015<\/p>\n Summer Reading List<\/a>, Journal de Jalune, August 2015<\/p>\n What to read: The books of summer 2015<\/a>, Inside Jersey Magazine, July 2015<\/p>\n Video:<\/strong> North Carolina Bookwatch<\/a>, UNC-TV (PBS), April\u00a017, 2015<\/p>\n Video:<\/strong> North Carolina Now<\/a>, UNC-TV (PBS), April 14, 2015<\/p>\n “Church’s ‘Byrd’ may fly her to a new place<\/a>,” Deirdre Parker Smith, Salisbury Post, April 12, 2015<\/p>\n “Kim Church’s Five Most Memorable Books<\/a>,” Charlotte Observer, March 30, 2015<\/p>\n “Authors and Readers Have a Good Time at Rowan Reading Rendezvous<\/a>,” Deirdre Parker Smith, Salisbury Post, March 22, 2015<\/p>\n “Salisbury’s Reading Rendezvous<\/a>,” Charlotte Observer, March 17, 2015<\/p>\n “Four N.C. Books for Spring<\/a>,” D.G. Martin, Winston-Salem Journal, March 16, 2015<\/p>\n “Book Beat<\/a>,” Raleigh News & Observer, January 26, 2015<\/p>\n “Authors, readers connect at 3rd ‘Movable Feast<\/a>,'” Winston-Salem Journal, January 26, 2015<\/p>\n “Church, formerly of Lexington, wins award for her book, Byrd<\/em><\/a>,” The Dispatch, January 22, 2015<\/p>\n “Top 5 Reads of 2014<\/a>,” LibraryThing, January 9, 2015<\/p>\n “A Page from D.G. Martin’s Notebook,” <\/a>WCHL, January 9, 2015 (audio)<\/p>\n “A Very Southern Book Prize<\/a>,” Garden & Gun,\u00a0January 8, 2015<\/p>\n “Assessing an active but stratified N.C. literary scene–plus, some cool 2014 titles you might have missed<\/a>,”\u00a0Brian Howe, The Independent Weekly, January 7, 2015<\/p>\n “Church Takes Home Second Crook’s Corner Book Prize<\/a>,”\u00a0Cliff Bellamy, Durham Herald Sun, January 5, 2015<\/p>\n “Byrd<\/em> Wins Crook’s Corner Book Prize<\/a>,”\u00a0Danny Romine Powell, Reading Matters, Charlotte Observer, January 5, 2015<\/p>\n “The Best Debut Fiction of 2014<\/a>,” Hungry for Good Books?, December 29, 2014<\/p>\n “Favorite Reads, 2014 Edition<\/a>,” Kalen Landow, December 25, 2014<\/p>\n “My Favorite Reads of 2014<\/a>,”\u00a0Dannye Romine Powell, Charlotte Observer,\u00a0December 21, 2014<\/p>\n Best New Books of 2014<\/a>,\u00a0Wake County Public Libraries, December 11, 2014<\/p>\n Interview by Barbara Presnell: Kim Church and Jack Riggs<\/a>,\u00a0The Lexington Dispatch, November 5, 2014<\/p>\n Video:<\/strong> “A Day with Kim Church<\/a>,” author documentary\u00a0by Anna Schwartz\/Dzanc Books, October 2014<\/p>\n Interview by Bonnie ZoBell<\/a>, West Coast Interviews, October 3, 2014<\/p>\n “Kim Church Talks about Byrd<\/em><\/a>,” interview by Virginia Pye, Baked in a Pye, September 23, 2014<\/p>\n “These books will warm the cold days ahead<\/a>,”\u00a0Dannye Romine Powell, Charlotte Observer,\u00a0September 5, 2014<\/p>\n “Debut novels set in the South<\/a>,”\u00a0Dannye Romine Powell, Reading Matters, August 19, 2014<\/p>\n “Balancing Act: Q&A with Novelist and Attorney Kim Church<\/a>,”\u00a0Fred Wasser, Mountain Xpress, Asheville, NC, August 17, 2014<\/p>\n “10 Great Summer Reads by North Carolina Authors<\/a>,”\u00a0N.C. Arts Council, Adventures in North Carolina Culture, July 2014<\/p>\n “Add These Titles to Your Reading Lists<\/a>,” Jill Doss-Raines, The Lexington Dispatch, July 23, 2014<\/p>\n “A Great Reading List: The Long-List for a Prestigious First Novel Prize<\/a>,”\u00a0Dannye Romine Powell, Reading Matters,\u00a0July 9, 2014<\/p>\n Audio:<\/strong> Interview by Fred Wasser on “Breathing Room: Jazz, Standards, & Conversation<\/a>,” WCOM 103.5 FM, July 5, 2014. Listen online<\/a>.<\/p>\n Audio:<\/strong> “Letters to the Unborn,” interview by Frank Stasio on “The State of Things<\/a>,” WUNC 91.5 FM (NPR), July 2, 2014<\/p>\n Audio:<\/strong> Interview by D.G. Martin on “Who’s Talking<\/a>,”\u00a0WCHL 97.9 FM, June 14, 2014<\/p>\n Audio:<\/strong> Interview by Ben McNeely on “This is Raleigh<\/a>,”\u00a0Little Raleigh Radio, June 11, 2014<\/p>\n On redemption, plot twists, and the art of Wiley Quixote:\u00a0interview by Mary Akers, r.kv.r.y quarterly literary journal<\/a>, May 2014<\/p>\n “Native’s Book Takes Flight,”\u00a0Jill Doss-Raines, The Dispatch<\/a>, Lexington, NC, May\u00a02014<\/p>\n “Author Uses Stint at UNCG as Foundation for First Novel,” by Linda C. Brinson, Greensboro News & Record<\/a>, April 2014<\/p>\n “The Longing that Feeds Kim Church’s Byrd<\/em>,” Dannye Romine Powell, Charlotte Observer<\/a>,\u00a0April 2014<\/p>\n “Adoption and Heartache in Greensboro,” Spencer Auten, The Carolinian<\/a>, UNC-Greensboro, April 2014<\/p>\n “Raleigh Author Publishes Her First Novel,” Kevin deMontbrun, The Technician<\/a>, N.C. State University, April 2014<\/p>\n “Debut Novel Set in North Carolina,” Faye Dasen, The Pilot<\/a>, April 2014<\/p>\n “A Story of Love and Longing,” Andrea Weigl, Raleigh News & Observer<\/a>, March 2014<\/p>\n On writing rituals,\u00a0Southern influences, and the untold stories of birth parents:\u00a0interview by Craig L. Gidney,\u00a0Washington Independent Review of Books<\/a>, March 2014<\/p>\n On reading musician bios and other guilty pleasures:\u00a0interview by Nicole Bonia of Linus’s Blanket in\u00a0Bloggers Recommend<\/a>, March 2014<\/p>\n “How a Song Wants to Sound: An Interview with Kim Church,” Elaine Neil Orr, Fiction Writers Review<\/a>, March 2014<\/p>\n On lawyering, writing as a second career, and what love’s got to do with it:\u00a0interview by Sonya Chung,\u00a0Bloom<\/a>, March 2014<\/p>\n The TNB Self-Interview, The Nervous Breakdown<\/a>, March 2014<\/p>\n Interview with Lauren Fortgang<\/a>, narrator of Byrd <\/em>the audio book,<\/em>\u00a0Audio Gals<\/a>, February 2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Reviews | Articles & Interviews | Essays on Writing | Excerpts 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 … Continue reading
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