Summer 2017: Vol. 45, Issue 3
A special issue in honor of the fortieth anniversary of the Appalachian Writers’ Workshop, featuring work from the magazine’s archives
CONTENTS
Editor’s Note by Jason Kyle Howard
FICTION
Harriette Simpson Arnow
The First Ride
Crystal Wilkinson
Third Sunday Dinner on the Grounds, July 1976
Robert Morgan
Harm
Lee Smith
Big Girl
Sharyn McCrumb
Abide With Me
Pamela Duncan
Hesper
Gurney Norman
Karo
CREATIVE NONFICTION
Meredith Sue Willis
What I Know About Scott County, Tennessee
Holly Goddard Jones
Hard-to-Reach Back Parts
Wilma Dykeman
Who Owns This Place
Fenton Johnson
Power and Obedience: Restoring Pacifism in American Politics
Karen Salyer McElmurray
Let Evening Come
POETRY
Jim Wayne Miller
Family Reunion
Albert Stewart
Journey Down Troublesome
Anne Shelby
A Funny Feeling
Marc Harshman
Reading the Landscape
Jesse Graves
AM Radio
Marianne Worthington
I saw Bobby Bare kiss Marty Stuart
Dana Wildsmith
Sanctuary
Rita Sims Quillen
Her Secret Dream
Kathryn Stripling Byer
On Anselm’s Trail at Daybreak
Bianca Lynne Spriggs
My Kinda Woman (For Appalachia)
Ron Houchin
Talking to Shadows
Wendell Berry
Give it Time
Darnell Arnoult
Deed
Ron Rash
Fall Trout
James Still
Winter Tree
Maggie Anderson
Keeping Company
Leatha Kendrick
Imagine
Michael McFee
Poet Reading
Maurice Manning
Translation
Silas House
Morning Trees
Frank X Walker
Literary Patriarch for Gurney Norman
Richard Hague
Teaching
George Ella Lyon
So You Want to Write?
Jeff Daniel Marion
A Catechism
CONVERSATION
Voices from Troublesome: Forty Years of the Appalachian Writers’ Workshop by Sandra Ballard, Amy Clark, Silas House, Jason Kyle Howard and Amanda Jo Slone