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02/12/2025

Welcome to Affrilachia! 🗞️ Meet some of the Black artists, writers and cultural builders reshaping Appalachia’s future by challenging its most persistent myths and erasures.

The term “Affrilachian” was coined in 1991 by Frank X. Walker, a founding member of the Affrilachian Poets. The term, made to acknowledge the voice of the Black experience in Appalachia (which is not singular), challenges the common myth that there are no Black people in Appalachia, and further, that there are no Black artists in Appalachia.

Visionaries like Wavy Wednesday, Crystal Good and Marie Cochran are a part of the new vanguard in the movement, building up this community through storytelling, resistance and creative power.

Read the full story on the Affrilachian movement exclusively when you grab a copy of YNST Issue 09!

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25/11/2025

Check out some more moody oil paintings by Issue 09 cover artist AJ Evans! 🌌🍂🦌🦉

Raised in the foothills along the Ohio River, AJ found a deep passion for nature at a young age and has been dedicated to blending themes of solitude, death, comfort and the unknown by using underappreciated animals and skeletal characters.

If you want your work to be on the cover of YNST like AJ, there are only 5 more days to submit to our Issue 10 Cover Contest! Submit your work for a chance win $500 AND be featured on the cover of the next issue! https://forms.gle/gGTVCwvHMbsJ3W5r7

14/11/2025

Absolutely thrilled to announce YNST has been awarded $25,000 in the final round of the Mountain State Innovators Summit! 🌄🩵

This has been an absolutely incredible journey and we are honored to have received this support.

We’re excited to broaden our circulation and continue platforming Appalachian creatives on an even wider scale.

(PS… if you’re wondering why our fall issue is a liiiiiitle late, this is why!)

12/11/2025

Andy Warhol emerged from Pittsburgh, the Paris of Appalachia, to become one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. 🎨🌉

Known as the King of Pop Art, Warhol blurred the lines between high culture and everyday consumer life with his recognizable portraits and vibrant iconography. His revolutionary embrace of screenprinting transformed a commercial process into fine art, allowing him to mass-produce his images that were instantly recognizable and endlessly experimental.

Now, his work continues to impact artists in Appalachia and across the globe.

In Issue 09, read more from Juliet Art Museum curator Lindsay Miranda on the influence of the Pop Art icon and on the new show “Good Business: Andy Warhol’s Screenprints” on display now at

05/11/2025

We are celebrating the big 1️⃣0️⃣ milestone with a chance for YOU to be featured on the cover of YNST Magazine!

Appalachian artists working in any medium are welcome to submit new or existing work around the theme “In The Years to Come: Appalachia of Tomorrow”

In addition to being featured on the cover of YNST’s winter issue the winner will also receive a $500 prize courtesy of our partner Dogwood Arts 💌

DEADLINE: November 30

APPLY HERE: https://linktr.ee/ynstmagazine

02/11/2025

Issue 09 is HERE & it’s your perfect companion for moody late autumn reading. 🦉🍂🌌

The fall issue is a kaleidoscopic look at the intersection of identity and artistry. Discover the legacy of Appalachia’s most famous artist, pop art pioneer Andy Warhol. Witness a first-hand account at finding “stubborn” joy with an intimate photo story of one artist’s journey celebrating life while dying.

Explore the Affrilachian movement featuring conversations with Black artists working and curating in Appalachia today. Pore over an artist’s metamorphosis with acclaimed textile artist Nellie Rose. Dive in to an in-depth Q&A with Cody Leroy Wilson, playwright of a profound new immigration story.

Plus, the paranormal gets investigated, Tyler Childer’s new album reviewed, the Appalachian Q***r Film Festival recapped and pawpaw recipes mastered!

PREORDER OR SUBSCRIBE TODAY! https://linktr.ee/ynstmagazine

Cover: AJ Evans

31/10/2025

Happy Halloween! 👻 There’s a misconception about the paranormal that you need to empirically “prove it,” or that there is some black-and-white answer to the question of whether it’s “real” or not.

Ghost hunter Danny Strakal aims to find answers for the things we can’t always explain.

The Appalachian region has a reputation for its residents being superstitious. But rather than veering into stereotypes about superstition as “backwards,” people like Danny take seriously the idea that people feel changes in energy that they can’t explain. Former industrial sites in southwestern Pennsylvania and West Virginia’s northern panhandle certainly have ghosts, if only in the form of memory. One wonders: Is Appalachia more haunted than other places, or are other places just better at hiding it?

We sent writer on a paranormal investigation alongside and you can read all about it in YNST Issue 09…. coming much sooner than you think! 🦉

19/10/2025

Capturing a memory is an art in itself. 💭🧶

Maddie Moore is an Appalachian artist whose work focuses on family, childhood memories, and traditions in Appalachia.

Her most recent works (two seen in Issue 08) explore the ideas of memory, loved ones who have passed, and how the people and things we love continue to live on once they are gone.

10/10/2025

Starting your weekend off right the only way we know how… with ART! 😸

These three paintings (as seen in Issue 08) were created by Sarah Fox, a multi-disciplinary artist who grew up on a farm in southern WV & currently resides in Huntington with her wife and three cats.

Sarah’s work is intertwined with her interest in animal advocacy, sustainability, and community organizing. She is also a founding member of the artist collective based in downtown Huntington, HACkS,

16/09/2025

New YNSTees are here, hot off the presses! 🙂‍↕️👕

Grab yours this weekend exclusively at Healing Appalachia music festival 🎻 We will be vending all weekend, swing by our table, grab some swag and say hello! (Leftovers will go on the online shop).

Shirts screen-printed by the team at & designed by YNST’s own .c

29/08/2025

CALLING ALL CREATIVES! 📣🎨✍️ We want to publish your work in print and online.

YNST is by and for Appalachian creatives, and always free to submit. 🪄🌄 Right now we’re seeking art, creative writing and fashion as we round out the rest of this year's creative content.

Already submitted but created something new? We want to see that too! Submit your samples on our website at ynstmagazine.com/submissions

23/08/2025

125 years ago, a yellow brick church was built on Atwood Street in Pittsburgh. Today, six decades since its last formal worship service, the church is brimming with a different kind of spirit: the spirit of DIY. ⛪️

Under the church’s new moniker, Haven, community is foundational, because the independent music venue is operated by a completely volunteer-based creative collective called Post Genre. Utilizing a rotating cast of more than 100 dedicated people who exchange their skills in the pursuit of the fleeting musical moment, Haven’s opening in 2025 breaks a 20-year dry spell for music venues in the Oakland neighborhood.

There’s no bar in the back, no corporate logos. Instead, there’s a volunteer-built stage, art on the walls, and volumes of creatives gathering each week to make music for the sake of music.

Read more about the higher power of DIY that you can find at .pgh only when you pick up YNST Issue 08! 🤘

✍️: Ella Jennings
📸: Colin Tierney & Anya Hammer

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