Nancy Hartney

The 16th Women’s Expo April 25-26

Food Expo, fashion trends, home products, cosmetics, choral groups, self-help talks, and BOOKS.  All in one venue. What’s not to like?

The 16th Annual 40/29 & Arkansas CW NWA Women’s Expo unfolds  at the Benton County Fairgrounds April 25-26, 2026.

Compliments of the Two Friends Bookstore and Café, readers can meet and greet local authors as they promote, sign, and sell books.

Nancy Hartney is among the featured authors with her The Blue Bottle Tree. Set against the backdrop of 1970 Georgia, two women navigate the festering secrets of a small Southern town—under the iron fist of the town’s patriarch. Brought from Africa by slaves, blue bottle trees capture and hold haints, or ghosts, that can be mischievous or malicious. But can these women, one black and one white, really escape their Georgia roots? Do they want to escape?

The Blue Bottle Tree is the 2025 winner of the Oklahoma Writer’s Federation Best Published Adult Book.  It is available at Pearl’s Bookstore in Fayetteville, other independent booksellers through Ingram, and Amazon.

Check it out at https://www.womenslivingexpo.com/nwa-womens-expo/

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Nancy Hartney's second novel, The Blue Bottle Tree, is in process. A Southern gothic tale of two women, written along color lines, concludes with a twist. She will blog about the novel over the next year preparatory to publication. Her debut novel arrived on bookshelves and online February 2021. 'If You Walk Long Enough' is a tale of a soldier's return from the Vietnam War to his South Carolina tobacco farm, a place that is no longer home, the people strangers. Her previous two short story collections set in the South—'Washed in the Water: Tales from the South' and 'If the Creek Don’t Rise: Tales from the South' continue to be available in bookstores and public libraries. In addition to fiction, Nancy writes poetry, historical pieces, and magazine articles. She often serves as writing contest judge, workshop leader, and presents author readings at libraries and book clubs. A member of Oklahoma Writers Federation, Ozarks Writers League (MO), Tallahassee Writers Association (FL), Ozark Creative Writers (AR), and two local prose critique groups and one poetry critique, her books are available in print, e-format, and audio. She is developing a pod cast for her blog posts.

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