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MEETING THE CHANGING NEEDS OF Central Appalachia
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The WINTER 2024 issue of untelling includes work from 27 poets, 9 prose writers, and 18 artists from Appalachia and beyond!
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Honoring the past, improving the present, and planning for the future of central Appalachia.
Since our founding in 1902, Hindman Settlement School has evolved to meet the changing needs of the region. The Settlement’s work today includes education and service programs that address the critical needs of youth and families while promoting the rich traditional arts of Appalachia.
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🚨 ADDITIONAL FACULTY ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨
Meredith McCarroll is joining the faculty of the Workshop this summer to offer a second creative nonfiction session!
Meredith McCarroll was born and raised in Western North Carolina, where she grew deeply interested in the intersections of race and region. Meredith’s writing includes academic work on film and representation in Appalachia (Unwhite: Appalachia, Race, and Film, University of Georgia Press, 2018) and her co-edited collection Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy (West Virginia University Press) won the American Book Award in 2019. Her political voice has been featured in The Boston Globe, CNN, MSNBC, All Things Considered and elsewhere. Her essays have appeared in Still, Bitter Southerner, Reckon Review, Cutleaf, Cleaver and elsewhere. Her most recent fiction was published at Salvation South. Her latest book, out on submission, explores issues of home, loss, and claims to Cherokee identity.
Additionally, she teaches college writing at University of Southern Maine. She has taught First Year Writing, American Literature, Film, African-American Literature and Southern Literature at Bowdoin College, Clemson University, and Northeastern University. She served as Director of Writing and Rhetoric for nearly a decade, is core faculty teaching nonfiction at West Virginia Wesleyan College’s MFA program, and frequently teaches courses with Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance.
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March is National Reading Month and we invite you to join us in a family reading challenge!
Before the month is over, download our Reading Bingo Card, and complete fun activities like:
✅ Reading in a cozy spot
✅ Making up a bedtime story
✅ Acting out a favorite book scene
The fun doesn’t have to end in March…keep reading as a family all year long to develop a lifelong love of reading with your children!
Mark you calendar for our annual seed swap and shower on Thursday, March 20 at 5:30pm!
Our incredible friends from all over have generously shared thousands of seeds with us– there is an array of vegetables to stunning flowers to choose from. We’re inviting you to be a part of it.
Come on over and grab a few packets of seeds to kickstart your gardening season! And hey, if you’ve got any heirloom seeds you’re eager to swap, bring them along – we’ve got a special table set up just for that!
It’ll be a laid-back and delightful occasion. We’d love to have you join us!
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As many in our region are recovering from the floodings this month, we want to send love and care to everyone affected. It seems poignant that we are finally ready to release the companion website to our Troublesome Rising anthology, which documented our big flood in 2022. The website hindman.org/fireside/titles/troublesome-rising/ has new photos, poems, and essays about the 2022 flood, and other similar events.
We want this website to be a platform where the community can continue to explore and document these kinds of experiences. We know it may be emotionally difficult to delve back into those waters at this time, and also, it is good to remind ourselves we have survived and stood back up many times before, and we will do so again this time. As we want to continue to add to this website, watch for a call for submissions later this year for the next opportunity to contribute.
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Registration is now open for the spring Troublesome Creek Writers Retreat! Join us, along with facilitator Melissa Helton, from April 11-13 for a weekend away from the hustle and bustle to our historic campus to gather, reflect, and work.
Learn more and register today at bit.ly/3AzWoA5!
Don’t miss our next generative writing workshop, Generate Together, with Neema Avashia! No pre-work required. You’ll come, warm up, and write based on prompts that foster creativity. This Saturday beginning at 10am! Register at bit.ly/40YT4cd
I tried to register last night and couldn’t get in. Was I too late? If it’s still possible, may I? Pretty please?
Sometimes writers need to be in community, and sometimes they need a little isolation to focus. The Oak Ledge Writing Residency offers writers the opportunity to come to this historic campus and work on their own stories, poems, and projects in the former home and office of Appalachian literary giants James Still and Lucy Furman.
“I cannot begin to express how very grateful I am for my time at the Oak Ledge Residency. I got so much work done on my novel, with the help of Mr. Still’s books. When I first went into his office, I might have wept a little. Everything I need to know is in that room. “ -Pamela
Learn more and book your self-directed residency today at bit.ly/3PFGU1z!
⌛ The deadline to apply for the Appalachian Writers’ Workshop is nearly here! ⌛
Apply by 11:59pm on March 1, 2025 for the opportunity to join us at the Forks of Troublesome Creek for our 48th annual gathering. Full details at www.Hindman.org/workshop!
