Howling Hills Publishing

07/09/2025

Thrilled to get Sue Weaver Dunlap’s latest poetry collection. 🔥

07/08/2025

How do you define Appalachia?
We talked to a few Appalachian writers, and added our own take in our latest blog. https://www.howlinghillspublishing.com/s/stories/appalachia-can-defy-description

07/07/2025

Chrissie Anderson Peters has a story in “25 Tales,” out this fall. “Mr. Harrison’s House” is set in Russell County, VA.

Chrissie is a native of Tazewell, VA and now lives in Bristol. She’s had stories in our two previous ghost anthologies as well.

07/06/2025

https://apple.news/AI7ogJHIDSx-erMZkhvw36w

Demon Copperhead, the author’s retelling of Dickens during Virginia’s opioid crisis, was a global success. Now she has used royalties from the novel to open a recovery residence

07/02/2025

Seats are filling up quickly!

***EDIT: TEN SLOTS ARE ALREADY FILLED!***

It's time to register for our Tennessee Mountain Writers Fall Workshop! Check out the details and register online at https://tmwi.org/fall-workshop-2025/

*REGISTRATION IS LIMITED TO 20 PARTICIPANTS*

Creative Nonfiction with Darnell Arnoult
Saturday, September 27, 2025
9:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. EST
Cost is $85
For our Fall Workshop, Darnell Arnoult will combine her expertise on the craft of nonfiction with writing exercises to help attendees create several starts to pieces in an environment conducive to learning and fun to take with them when the day’s activities end. We welcome writers of all levels to join us for a day of creative fellowship.

Our Workshop Leader

Darnell Arnoult is a master of cross-genre writing. Her “Mining Your Timeline” workshop is a nonfiction writer’s paradise using a variety of questions, lists, and exercises to explore material from one decade of lived experience to another, to generate personal nonfiction narrative. Her novel Sufficient Grace received a starred review in Publishers Weekly. Her poetry collections include What Travels With Us, Galaxie Wagon, and Incantations. Shorter works have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. She holds an MA (NCSU) and MFA (University of Memphis) and has received the SIBA Poetry Book of the Year Prize, Weatherford Award, Chaffin Award, and Hobson Award in Arts and Letters. She was writer-in-residence at Lincoln Memorial University for 10 years. She now lives in Mebane, NC, where she offers a constellation of workshops and services for writers and writing communities. For information, visit darnellarnoult.net.

The workshop will include a break for lunch. Meal options will be made available following registration. Coffee, tea, soft drinks and snacks before the morning session are included.

We hope you will join us!

07/01/2025

Susan Tidwell Brown’s story “The Entity, an Outsider,” will appear in “25 Tales,” out this fall. Her story took place at Berea College in 1966.

Brown lives in Williamsburg, Kentucky. Her work has appeared in the Berea Citizen, Jellico Community Voice, the London Sentinel-Echo, and Tgese Mosaics.

06/30/2025

Happy birthday to Sharon Smith Shadrick, left, shown with Melanie Grigsby Harless at April’s Tennessee Mountain Writers Conference.

06/29/2025

See you at CreepyCon, Aug. 2! 👻

06/28/2025

What’s everybody reading?

06/27/2025

Taylor Floyd has a story in “25 Tales,” out this fall. “The Cave” is set near Cosby, TN.

Floyd grew up in the shadows of The Great Smoky Mountains, where evenings were often spent listening to folk tales passed down by her Irish-descended family. Those early stories sparked a lifelong fascination with myth, mystery, and the hidden corners of the human heart. She went on to study literature and creative writing at the University of Tennessee. Her work often weaves folklore with lyrical prose and psychological depth, exploring the blurred lines between memory, myth, and reality.