Amanda Cockrell

Selected Works

Contemporary Novels

In the face of the Vietnam War and a culture violently remaking itself, Ellen and Jerry navigate anti-war riots, the draft, a back-to-the-land commune, and women's rising fed-up-ness, to stumble finally not exactly to solid ground but to a place to breathe.

What We Keep Is Not Always What Will Stay

Saints and soldiers and the Untied Church of Dog

Roman Novels

The Borderlands series

A half-British officer on the northern edges of the Empire

The Centurions quartet

Brothers and rivals in the Legions of first century Rome

The Wall at the Edge of the World

A legionary surgeon and the Antonine Wall

A sequel to Legions of the Mist

The Legions of the Mist

The last campaign of the Ninth Legion Hispana

The Horse Catchers trilogy

The Horse Catchers Trilogy

Mythological novels of the coming of the horse to the American Southwest

The Deer Dancers trilogy

The Deer Dancers Trilogy

Mythological novels of the beginning of art

Children's books

Shadow Castle

By my mother, Marian Cockrell, the story of an enchanted castle on the edge of Fairyland

Quick Links

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E-mail me at amandacockrell@gmail.com

Events

Book Clubs

Books & Beans

Book No Further, Downtown Roanoke

6:30 p.m. August 5

Old Southwest Book Club

Gish House, Highland Park, Roanoke

6:00 p.m. April 8

Tinker Mountain Summer Workshops
June 2025

This week-long residential workshop at Hollins University in Virginia is the perfect length and setting for an intensive kick-start to your writing. There will be a lot of seminars to choose from.