We’re officially under 100 days away from Ironwood Writers Studio 2023! Ironwood is a week-long residency for high school students to stay on our historic camps, study multiple genres of creative writing with respected regional writers, and build community with each other. This year’s faculty includes Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle (fiction), Bernard Clay (poetry), Shawna Kay …
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Book lovers generally love everything to do with books, from collecting them, to reading them, and almost always, talking about them. We need only hang out in a bookstore or scroll through the literary communities on TikTok or Instagram to see how much readers love talking about books! Because of that, we’re very excited to …
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Our Fireside Industries literary imprint with the University Press of Kentucky strives to publish creative work by authors who are telling the complex stories of Appalachia and rural America. Each year we have a series of new releases and 2023 is no exception. Our first release of the year will be the beautifully designed paperback edition …
Kentucky Poet Laureate and NAACP Award-Winning author, Crystal Wilkinson, will deliver the Jim Wayne Miller/James Still Keynote Address at the 46th annual Appalachian Writers’ Workshop at the historic Hindman Settlement School. Ms. Wilkinson’s address will be held near the conclusion of the workshop, on Thursday, July 27, and will be open to the public to attend. A …
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It’s January 3rd and abnormally warm. I’m sitting in a rocker on the porch of the Mike Mullins center with a light sweater and a cup of Earl Grey. I’m listening to crows in a tree over the May Stone Gathering Place and cars passing campus on the road. It’s my one-year anniversary working at the …
If you are reading this, you are likely familiar with Hindman Settlement School’s very successful dyslexia program that has been helping children with learning differences be able to read on grade level for over forty years. You have probably heard about our traditional arts programs that preserve the legacy and heritage of Appalachian music, dance, …
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This past weekend, October 21-23, we were delighted to host the 48th annual fall gathering of the Southern Appalachian Writers Cooperative (SAWC) on campus. The celebration is multi-faceted. This was our first time since the flood to host a group retreat. We held a rescheduled reading by writer Beth Macy (author of Dopesick) in early October which …
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It seems cliché to say that telling our stories is empowering, because we know it is. Folks get up and testify in church. We sit with a therapist to discuss our traumas. We gather with friends to share our joys and sorrows. We write in a journal to remember important life events. It also seems cliché to say that experiencing the creative works of others is empowering, because we …
I first came to the Appalachian Writers’ Workshop in 2015. I was from the Great Lakes region of Ohio and had been living in southeast Kentucky for 5 years, and my sense of myself as a writer, as an Appalachian writer, would change forever that week. Writing is often a solitary endeavor, with the author scribbling or typing away …
Winter may be settling in, but here at the Hindman Settlement School, we have our eyes set on the marvelous growing season to come! As we prepare this year’s agricultural programming, we are asking for any donations of seeds that we can give away to our community members at next month’s Seed Swap. We would …
