SHEPHERDSTOWN -- On the 10th anniversary of its inception, the Appalachian Heritage Writer-in-Residence Project published its first anthology, under the guidance of project founder and director Sylvia Shurbutt and that year's Appalachian Heritage Writer-in-Residence, Adriana Trigiani. The award-winning author, playwright, screenwriter and documentary filmmaker selected the best submissions from writers across the state of West Virginia, to be published alongside an excerpt from her first novel, "Big Stone Gap," for which she had been selected for the residency.

Every year since 2008, the selected Appalachian Heritage Writer-in-Residence has produced an Anthology of Appalachian Writers, as a way to memorialize the experience and highlight the work of the most promising amateur short story

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