With all the press we've been getting lately (an article in The Dominion Post, a radio interview with WV Public Broadcasting, and a local news story scheduled to air this evening on WDTV Channel 5 at 6 and 11), I…
Appalachian Prison Book Project
WV Public Broadcasting Radio Interview w/APBP
Katy Ryan, co-founder of APBP, was recently interviewed for a piece on WV Public Radio about the project. Click here to hear the interview!
Dominion Post article and more press!
Click the photo below to read the article about APBP that ran recently in The Dominion Post. As they say, any publicity is good publicity, and this piece is no exception; it has spawned interest in the project at WV…
APBP in WVU’s Eberly College Summer 2010 Newsletter
UPDATE as of 9/20/2010: This link is broken--sorry, trying to find another! You can still get an idea of how nice the article is in the meantime, just from the pic below. 🙂
Organizational meeting planned for Thursday 8/19, 11:00am…
at the Garlow House on Spruce Street. Agenda items include but are not limited to: new volunteer recruitment efforts special projects (pen pal, book club, writing class and read-to-your child at Hazelton, etc.) fundraising ideas, speaking of which... a potential…
Read More Organizational meeting planned for Thursday 8/19, 11:00am…
Great day at the market!
We had a great time at the market this past weekend. It was a beautiful (if a little warm!) day and we not only ran into half the people we know in Morgantown enjoying the market's fine offerings, but we…
APBP Dictionary Drive at Morgantown Farmers Market June 19
The delightful Morgantown Farmers Market, which invites local nonprofits to network there each week, has offered APBP a space next Saturday, June 19. We have opted to use this opportunity for a "dictionary drive." We will be collecting paperback dictionaries, which are…
Read More APBP Dictionary Drive at Morgantown Farmers Market June 19
Donation made to Charleston-area Dismas House. Thanks, APBP!
The Appalachian Prison Book Project is based in Morgantown, WV, and we send books to prisons in several states, but our outreach is not limited to those spaces. For instance, in the past we have donated books to a reading…
Read More Donation made to Charleston-area Dismas House. Thanks, APBP!
Dictionaries needed.
We can always use them. ALWAYS! Let us know if you'd like to make a donation (paperback, please, as many prisons will not allow hardcover books) or otherwise have a brilliant dictionary-acquisition idea. 🙂
APBP Spring Update
Since we're only two weeks until summer now, I better hurry up and get this spring update posted before spring is no more! APBP is still going strong. Here are few happenings: We've had several new volunteers be trained in…