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Appalachian Journal, founded in 1972, is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed quarterly featuring field research, roundtable discussions, interviews, first-person essays, and scholarly studies of history, politics, economics, culture, folklore, literature,

06/02/2026

Appalachian writers! The Upper New is looking for "narratives about Hurricane Helene and the resulting floods and landslides, etc. that occurred across the Appalachian region: fiction and nonfiction, geolocated photo essays, documentary and fiction films as well." Check out the call: https://uppernew.org/helene-the-aftermath-recovering-relationships-with-rivers/

06/01/2026

On this day in 1925, singer, songwriter and musician Hazel Dickens was born in Mercer County, West Virginia. Hazel’s family moved to Baltimore in the 1950s, where she met Mike Seeger, the younger brother of Pete Seeger, and began performing folk and bluegrass songs with him. After playing in Bob Baker’s bluegrass group for several years, Dickens left and began performing with Alice Gerrard, recording two albums as Hazel & Alice at a time when almost all bluegrass bands were led by men. Many of Dickens’ songs revolved around the work of miners and the struggles of women. Hazel Dickens died in 2011 at the age of 85.

05/31/2026

Important reminder! Tomorrow, June 1st, is the last day to submit creative work for our Spring 2027 special issue on Animal Studies, co-edited by Dr. Kathryn Kirkpatrick.

05/25/2026

Happy birthday, Tom t. Hall! On this day in 1936, Tom T. Hall was born in Tick Ridge, Kentucky. A country singer, songwriter and author, Hall organized a band as a teenager, called the Kentucky Travelers, which performed before movies for a traveling theater. After time in the Army, Hall worked as a disc jockey on several radio stations, and it was his song, “DJ for a Day” which was his first song recorded in 1963. In 1964, Hall started work for Nashville-based Newkeys Music, composing up to a half dozen country songs a day, including “Harper Valley PTA” and “Hello Vietnam.” Hall died at the age of 85 in 2021.

05/23/2026

Happy birthday, Mac Wiseman! On this day in 1925, Mac Wiseman was born in Crimora, Virginia. Wiseman was a graduate of Shenandoah Conservancy (now University) and began working as a disc jockey in 1960. He later joined the Cumberland Mountain Folks as an upright bass player. Wiseman became the guitar player for Bill Monroe’s Bluegrass Boys after the departure of Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs. In 1958, he helped co-found the Country Music Association (CMA) and in 1986, helped co-found the International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA). Wiseman died at the age of 93 in 2019.

05/20/2026

Happy Birthday, Wilma Dykeman! On this day in 1920, writer, speaker and environmentalist Wilma Dykeman was born in Asheville, North Carolina. A graduate of Biltmore Junior College (now UNC-Asheville) and Northwestern University, she was the author of eighteen books in a variety of genres. Her first book, The French Broad (1955), provided the natural and social history of the watershed. Dykeman gave an average of 50 to 75 speeches a year, and was the first female Tennessee State Historian. She passed away in 2006 at the age of 86.

05/13/2026

Happy birthday, Walker Calhoun! On this day in 1918, Walker Calhoun was born in Big Cove, North Carolina. At the age of 12, he attended a boarding school in Cherokee, North Carolina, where he learned English. Throughout his childhood, he taught himself to play banjo, learned Cherokee song and dance from his uncle and learned traditional medicine from his mother. Calhoun founded the Raven Rock Dancers in the 1980s, a group which sought to preserve Cherokee music for future generations. In 1988, he became the first recipient of the Sequoyah Award. He died in 2012 at the age of 94.

05/10/2026

On this day in 1974, the Chattooga River in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia was designated as a Wild and Scenic River.

05/08/2026

Happy birthday, Carter Sickels! On this day, author Carter Sickels was born. Sickels is the author of The Prettiest Star (2020), winner of the 2021 Southern Book Prize and Weatherford Award. His writing has been published in Oxford American, The Atlantic, Joyland, as well as a variety of other publications. He is an assistant professor of English & Creative Writing in the MFA Program at North Carolina State University.

05/04/2026

Important Announcement for Poets! Because we’ve received so many amazing poems, our print and online issues are full through the rest of the year (and into next year for print)! Y’all are talented!

In order to publish your poems in a more timely fashion, we’re going to switch from year-round submissions to reading periods (just for poetry). We are still accepting poems for the Animal Studies special issue until the June 1 deadline.

Our reading periods for poetry for print and online general Issues will be January 1 through January 31, 2027 and July 1 through July 30, 2027. And you can still submit in other genres year-round. Thanks so much for trusting us with your work!

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Belk Library 472, Box 32026
Boone, NC
28608

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https://appjournal.appstate.edu/, https://uncpress.org/journals/appalachian-journal/

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