Celebrating Heritage, Changing Lives
We are improving lives by addressing critical issues surrounding literacy, food insecurity, and access to traditional arts.
MEETING THE CHANGING NEEDS OF Central Appalachia
Literary & arts magazine
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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The crowd was left thunderstruck at our Winter Pick & Bow concert by one of our newest students, Aiden, who has made great strides since beginning our program and rocked the Great Hall with his guitar. We salute you, Aiden!
Way to throw me under the bus Skyler Parks 😂😂 jk jk we're gonna rename Pick & Bow to Pick & Headbang
Awesome job!
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Awesome!!!
Hindman Settlement School is excited to announce that we’re once again a Grow Appalachia partner site for 2025! Whether you’re just starting out or looking to boost your gardening game, our monthly workshops will guide you through planning a garden, heart-healthy cooking, and food preservation, everything you need for an incredible growing season.
We’ll be accepting up to 50 families, so don’t miss your chance to dig in and grow with us! Applications will be available on February 20 at 5:30 p.m. at the Mullins Center, along with a workshop on how to plan your garden. We hope to see you there!
Leading one of our two novel sessions at the 2025 Workshop is the best-selling author Jacinda Townsend.
Townsend is the author of Trigger Warning (Graywolf, 2025) and Mother Country (Graywolf, 2022) and winner of the 2023 Ernest Gaines Award for Literary Excellence. Townsend’s first novel, Saint Monkey (Norton, 2014), winner of the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize and the James Fenimore Cooper Prize for historical fiction, was an Honor Book of the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. A former broadcast journalist and antitrust lawyer, Townsend has written nonfiction for Al Jazeera and The White Review.
Applications for this summer’s gathering are open through March 1st. Be sure to apply at Hindman.org/workshop!
I am so looking forward to it!
It’s almost time for our next square dance..and this month is a very special Valentine’s one!
Join us on Friday, February 14 at 7pm for a free, family-friendly dance! No prior experience is needed, all dances are taught step by step by our caller. We’ll be dancing east, low-impact, traditional Appalachian square dances. Musicians are invited to bring their instruments and sit in with the bluegrass band!
Our square dances are sponsored in partnership with the Berea College Folk Arts & Culture grant.
Wes Browne joins the faculty of this year’s Workshop to lead a session entitled "Revision for the Win!"
Browne is the author of They All Fall the Same and Hillbilly Hustle. He has lived and practiced law as a criminal defense attorney, prosecutor, and public defender in Appalachian Kentucky for over twenty-four years. He also helps run his family’s pizza shops.
Be sure to apply at Hindman.org/workshop before the March 1st deadline!
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The Makery course catalog for Spring 2025 is live!
Check out the offerings and register today at www.hindman.org/themakery!
The Makery course catalog for Spring 2025 is live!
Check out the offerings and register today at www.hindman.org/themakery!
Do you want to join a nationwide community of writers for an epic creative challenge for 2025? The Stafford Challenge sets a goal to write a poem a day for a year, and it starts this Friday, January 17. Sign up through the Stafford Challenge website, and sign up through us for bonus monthly emails, zoom gatherings, and more.
Sign up at bit.ly/4akQgcp and bit.ly/40iW4yp!
