Pauletta Hansel, Managing Editor. Michael Henson and Sherry Cook Stanforth, Co-Editors.
Poetry. Fiction. Literary Nonfiction. In 1974, a group of writers and activists gathered at Highlander Center in New Market, Tennessee, to form what became the Southern Appalachian Writers Cooperative. From its very beginning, SAWC was intended to s...
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Fiction. Poetry. Essays. "In our call announcing the theme for this issue, we said, 'We are blessed or cursed to live in these interesting times. For Volume 21 we offer the theme of Appalachia Acting Up. Take it as and where you will: political prot...
Poetry. "This issue's theme was recommended to us by a few of our Southern Appalachian Writers Cooperative writers watching their friends, neighbors and family members struggle with the decision to remain in Appalachia or to move on. Since then, som...