Appalachian Heritage

Appalachian Heritage
Editor Jason Howard
Former editors Al Stewart, Sidney Saylor Farr, Jim Gage, George Brosi
Categories Literary magazine
Frequency Quarterly
Founder Al Stewart
First issue  1973
Company University of North Carolina Press for Berea College
Country United States
Based in Berea, Kentucky
Website www.appalachianheritage.net
ISSN 0363-2318

Appalachian Heritage is a literary quarterly that "showcases the work of emerging and established writers throughout Appalachia and beyond."[1]

The magazine was founded in 1973 and is based at Berea College. Appalachian Heritage publishes fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and the occasional piece of writing for young adults, as well as craft essays, book reviews, and visual art. Material from the magazine has been widely anthologized in collections including New Stories from the South. Journal contributors include multiple Pushcart Prize nominees; recipients of the T.S. Eliot Award, the E.B White Award, and an O. Henry Prize; a National Book Award finalist; and a Pulitzer finalist.

Notable writers who have contributed to Appalachian Heritage include Harriette Arnow, Pinckney Benedict, Wendell Berry, Nikki Giovanni, bell hooks, Silas House, Fenton Johnson, Maurice Manning, Jim Wayne Miller, Robert Morgan, Ann Pancake, Jayne Anne Phillips, Ron Rash, Lee Smith, James Still, Neela Vaswani, and Frank X Walker.[2]

History and publication

Appalachian Heritage was founded in 1973 by mountain poet Al Stewart at Alice Lloyd College. The magazine moved to the Hindman Settlement School in 1982. Berea College began sponsoring the magazine in 1985. From 2002-2012, each issue of Appalachian Heritage focused on one author from the region, along with original work from other writers. Featured authors included Cormac McCarthy, Silas House, Crystal Wilkinson, Emma Bell Miles, Harriette Simpson Arnow, Ron Rash, Wilma Dykeman, and Karen Salyer McElmurray, among others, as well as special issues dedicated to African-American Appalachian writers and Eastern Band of the Cherokee members.[3]

Creative nonfiction writer and editor Jason Howard assumed editorship of Appalachian Heritage in November 2013.[4] Since then, the magazine has focused on showcasing the original work of both emerging and established writers throughout Appalachia and beyond. In an interview upon being named editor, Howard said, "I’m looking forward to preserving the legacy of the magazine’s past editors, while also taking it to new places."[5]

References

  1. ↑ http://pub.berea.edu/appalachian-heritage/about-us/
  2. ↑ http://uncpress.unc.edu/browse/page/4
  3. ↑ http://middlesborodailynews.com/news/home_top-news/2868155/Bell-native-appointed-editor-of-Appalachian-Heritage
  4. ↑ http://bcnow.berea.edu/author-jason-howard-named-editor-appalachian-heritage-magazine-berea-college/
  5. ↑ http://www.berea.edu/appalachian-center/author-jason-howard-editor/

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