Beth Dotson Brown
Fiction
Published Fiction:
"Motherhood Unbidden," Branchwood Journal, Versailles,
KY, Spring/Summer 2005
"Salvation in the Slightest Connection," Quality Women’s
Fiction magazine, United Kingdom , 2004
"The Frightener," Kudzu, the literary magazine of Hazard
Community College, Hazard, KY, 2001
"Shadow dancing without my mother," St. Anthony Messenger
magazine, Cincinnati, OH, March, 2000
"Blood on the Highway," broadcast on the BBC World Service
Short Story Programme, April, 1999
Plays:
Mothers, Daughters and the Spaces in Between, a package of one-act plays,
are available from Heartland
Plays.
Public readings of fiction and poetry:
Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning (one for best submitted poetry
and the
other for best submitted short stories), 1993 and 1999
Danville Writers Group readings in Danville, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1997, 2000
Berea Arts Council – sponsored reading in Berea, 2000
Grassroots Writers Group readings in Lancaster, 2003, 2004, 2005
Kentucky Writers’ Day reading at Penn’s Store in Forkland, 2005
Awards
Professional Development grant, Kentucky Arts Council, 2008
Summer 2005 Artist-in-Residence, Hopscotch House, Kentucky Foundation
for Women
Professional Development grant, Kentucky Arts Council, 2000
Writers groups:
Founding member of the Grassroots Writers Group, Lancaster, KY
Here you can read "Shadow
dancing without my mother," published in St.
Anthony Messenger magazine.
It won the Best Short Story award from the Catholic Press Association in
2001.