About Amanda Jo Slone

Amanda Jo Slone is the editor of the literary journal, The Pikeville Review. Her work has appeared in such journals as Appalachian Heritage, Still: The Journal, Kudzu, and The Louisville Review as well as other journals and anthologies. In 2013 her fiction was supported with an Artist Enrichment Grant from the Kentucky Foundation for Women. She is a graduate of the MFA in Creative Writing program at West Virginia Wesleyan College.

4 04, 2018

Great Books to Carry into Spring

By Amanda Jo Slone|2018-04-04T12:04:21-04:00April 4th, 2018|Publisher's Picks: Book Reviews, Southern Voices|0 Comments

by Amanda Jo Slone Students in my Composition class are writing literacy narratives. This is always my favorite assignment of the semester. I love to guide them through the mining of their memories and watch as their narratives take

8 07, 2017

Our Village: Sixteen books to love & share this summer

By Amanda Jo Slone|2017-07-08T13:04:36-04:00July 8th, 2017|Publisher's Picks: Book Reviews|0 Comments

The first gift I gave to my children was a set of books. I was a young first-time mother. When I found out I was pregnant, I was clueless to the needs of a child. And when, after my