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Appalachian Review was founded in 1973 as Appalachian Heritage by mountain poet Albert Stewart at Alice Lloyd College. The magazine moved to the Hindman Settlement School in 1982. Berea College began sponsoring the magazine in 1985. It publishes fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, craft essays, interviews, book reviews, and visual art.
Appalachia (locally / ˌ æ p ə ˈ l æ tʃ ə /, also /-l eɪ tʃ ə,-l eɪ ʃ ə / [4]) is a geographic region located in the central and southern sections of the Appalachian Mountains in the eastern United States.
Eliot Wigginton (born Brooks Eliot Wigginton on November 9, 1942) is an American oral historian, folklorist, writer and former educator.He is most widely known for developing with his high school students the Foxfire Project, a writing project consisting of interviews and stories about Appalachia.
The Archives of Appalachia are located on the campus of East Tennessee State University (ETSU) in Johnson City, Tennessee.Containing books, rare manuscripts, photographs, and audio and moving-image recordings, the archives serve as a resource for scholarly and creative projects dealing with life in southern Appalachia.
Ron Rash has made the fog-shrouded ridges of Appalachia his fictional home in novels and short stories over a highly acclaimed career dating back decades. With “The Caretaker,” his first novel ...
The Trans-Appalachian Frontier: People, Societies, and Institutions, 1775–1850 is a book written by Malcolm J. Rohrbough and published by Oxford University Press in 1978 (first edition) and Indiana University Press (third edition) in 2008.
The Appalachian region, as defined by Congress, includes all of West Virginia and parts of several other states, including Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, eastern Kentucky, Georgia, North and ...
Ann Pancake is an American fiction writer and essayist.She has published a novel, short stories and essays describing the people and atmosphere of Appalachia, often from the first-person perspective of those living there.