The Middle of Somewhere: An Artist Explores the Nature of Virginia is available from independent and online bookstores. For more about the book, visit Trinity University Press tupress.org/9781595349613/the-middle-of-somewhere/
The Middle of Somewhere featured at the AWP conference:
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
November 2022, Terrain.org, the journal of place-based literature, featured the chapter “The Green Fuse”: https://www.terrain.org/2022/nonfiction/the-green-fuse/
“Fertile Ground for Art: Suzanne Stryk’s The Middle of Somewhere travels outward and inward,” by Linda Parsons for Chapter 16, the journal of Humanities Tennessee. https://chapter16.org/fertile-ground-for-art/
“Big Little Lives” — Interview with Suzanne Stryk by Harry Kollatz Jr., Richmond Magazine, March 2022
2022 EVENTS SCHEDULE
Sunday, March 6 at 1:00 PM: Reading and Booksigning at the Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA
Friday, March 25 at 11:00 AM: Booksigning at the Trinity University Press table, Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference, Philadelphia, PA
Friday, March 25 at 1:45 PM: “Women Exploring Wild Spaces” panel discussion, Bookfair Stage, Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference, Philadelphia, PA
Tuesday, March 29 at 7:00 PM Eastern Time: “Suzanne Stryk in Conversation with Jim Minick,” Sponsored by Trinity University Press / a recording of the event here:
https://www.facebook.com/trinityuniversitypress/videos/991489471757306
Thursday, March 31 at 7:00 PM: Reading and Booksigning, The Birthplace of Country Music Museum, Sponsored by the AAME, Bristol, VA
Saturday, April 9, 10:00 — 4:00, Book signing, Highlands Writers Fair, Abingdon, VA, Library
Thursday, April 14th at 7:00 pm, Reading & Book signing: Radford Public Library
Friday, May 6, 5-8:00 pm, Opening Reception for the exhibit “The Middle of Somewhere” [“Notes on the State of Virginia” series that the book is based upon] Blue Spiral 1 gallery, Asheville, NC
Saturday, May 7, 5-6:00 pm, Booksigning at the Mt Rogers Spring Naturalist Rally, Blue Ridge Discovery Center, Troutdale, VA.
Friday, May 20th at 11:00 Pacific Time, presentation for the Collage Artists of America, “Making Visual and Written Assemglages.” Online, by invitation only
Saturday, May 21 at 6:00 pm, Bristol, Virginia: AAME Arts Achievement Awards gala for 2022 recipients; Suzanne is an award winner for visual art and writing.
Friday, June 3, 6:00-7:30 PM, reading and slide show sponsored by Book No Further and Unity of Roanoke Valley, Roanoke, Virginia.
Saturday, June 4 from 1:00-3:00, book signing at The Book Dragon, Staunton, Virginia.
Sunday, June 5 from 3-5, meet and greet plus reading with slideshow, Airy Knoll, Middlebrook, Virginia. Invitation only.
Wednesday, June 15 at 5:00 pm, book signing, and 5:30 pm reading at the Blue Spiral 1 Gallery in Asheville, North Carolina, co-sponsored by Malaprops bookstore.
Wednesday, June 22, 7:00 PM, reading and book signing at the Floyd Center for the Arts, Floyd, Virginia.
Thursday, July 7, 1:00 PM, WEHC 90.6 Radio interview/recording: https://player.captivate.fm/episode/89dd7e49-b1e2-455d-a9ea-98af55f5d0f7
Tuesday, July 19, 6:00 PM, Common Ground Virginia History Virtual Book Group, Library of Virginia: discussion and Q & A
Wednesday, August 3, 7:00 PM, LOUDOUN COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY Reading and Q&A. Recording of the event here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoqA8fr20Ms&t=743s
Friday, November 4, 2:45 PM, reading at the Virginia Art Educators Association conference in Richmond, Virginia. Introduction by Margaret Hancock, Director, Virginia Commission for the Arts
Thursday, November 17, 6PM, reading and pop-up exhibit at the Renaissance Center, Kingsport, TN For more information visit: https://www.createappalachia.org/event/suzannestryk/
The Middle of Somewhere is based on the “Notes on the State of Virginia” series. For more about that project, visit: https://hwy.ucp.mybluehost.me/website_7d0fa47f/assemblages/notes-on-the-state-of-virginia/#bridge-2
E X H I B I T S
“The Middle of Somewhere,” an exhibit showing the entire “Notes on the State of Virginia” series. Blue Spiral 1, Asheville, NC. May-July 2022 This was the last exhibit of this body of work before it became part of the permanent collection of the University of Virginia.
