Billie Girl, Vickie’s award-winning novel, was released September 1, 2010. Billie Girl won the 2009 Leapfrog Literary Press Contest. Sena Jeter Naslund, author of Ahab’s Wife, Four Spirits and Adam & Eve: A Novel, writes of Billie Girl:

“Honestly strange and strangely honest. Weaver’s authenticity of characters, situations, and by-gone eras emanates from sheer originality of style. It is a stellar achievement—gritty, funny, fresh, and bold.”

Among Vickie’s literary accomplishments: May 2009 month-long fellowship at Spiro Arts Community, Utah (home of the Sundance Film Festival); semi-finalist in the Mary McCarthy Fiction Prize 2008 (a contest sponsored by Sarabande Books); top ten of The Parthenon Prize 2007; 2006 Pushcart Prize Nominee for “Distance,” a short story that won first prize in Alligator Juniper’s 2006 National Fiction Writing Contest. She has published short stories and poems in literary journals.

Vickie is a 2005 graduate of Spalding University’s MFA Program (Louisville, Kentucky). Her next novel, Job’s Daughters, is taking form on the page.

Writing events are part of Vickie’s vocation. She’s attended the Novels in Progress Workshop, the Key West Writers Seminar, the Midwest Writers Workshop, the Kentucky Women Writers Conference, the NYC Pitch and Shop Conference, and the San Francisco Writers Conference. She workshopped with Robert Olen Butler at The Writer’s Center of Indianapolis.