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Accents Publishing

Our partner for the James Baker Hall Book Award program

Kentucky Humanities

Organizer of Book Festivals in Lexington and Louisville

Carnegie Center for Literacy & Learning

James Baker Hall Foundation grant program provides scholarships to the year-long Poetry Gauntlet program

Hindman Settlement School

Young Writers Program/Ironwood Writers Studio

Workhorse

Tools for Writers in Central Kentucky

LexPoMo

James Baker Hall Foundation Grant program provides for publication of the annual anthology

Bloodroot Writers Collective

From the Beginning with James Baker Hall Funding

Write To Recover

James Baker Hall Foundation grant program provides for Bobbi Buchanan to continue offering WTR in Bullitt County

Western Kentucky Community & Technical College

Western district partner for Kentucky Writers On The Road

Spalding University

Host of James Baker Hall Book Award Presentation

Rainmaker Hospitality

Logistics Support to Kentucky Writers On The Road

Kentucky Monthly

Marketing Support To All James Baker Hall Foundation Programming

Salt River Local Arts Collective

Bullitt County Artists Collective formed under our James Baker Hall Foundation grant program

Rowan County Arts Center

From the Beginning with James Baker Hall Funding

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