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Fall 2018 Editor’s Note

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Editor's Note

Each fall, Appalachian Heritage devotes a special section of the magazine to a featured author, and over the years we have celebrated some of the finest writers in the country. But this year is different. Instead of a single author, we have delved into our archives to present a collection…

Summer 2018 Editor’s Note

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Summer 2018 ♦

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Don’t get above your raising. It’s a saying with which many, if not most, Appalachians are familiar. I have heard the phrase all my life, particularly from my family and many in my community when I left southeastern Kentucky at eighteen for an internship on Capitol Hill and subsequently to attend university in…

Spring 2018 Editor’s Note

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Spring 2018 ♦

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Last month my writing group descended at our home in Berea for a weekend of words and kinship. We are close-knit bunch, with friendships reaching back over a decade and, in some cases, even longer. Our group meets each quarter, and more if we can manage it. We often meet…

Winter 2018 Editor’s Note

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Winter 2018 ♦

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I’ve been thinking a lot about Cincinnati lately, recalling the first glimpse of the Queen City as one rounds the bend on I-75 and begins the descent down toward the riverbed just before Covington. A few days ago, I opened my Internet browser and pulled up a map of the Ohio River on my screen, tracing its crooked…

2017 Denny C. Plattner Awards

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Plattner Awards

We are proud to announce the winners of the annual Denny C. Plattner Awards, which were established in 1995 by Kenneth and Elissa Plattner to honor their late son and his love of writing. The awards are given to the finest pieces of fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry that appeared…

Spring 2017 Editor’s Note

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Spring 2017 ♦

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Earlier this spring, we were invaded by squirrels—a gang of wily creatures that leapt their way to our gutter from a towering walnut tree. But their play didn’t stop there. They found a small hole just beneath the overhang of the metal roof and enlarged it with their sharp little…

Winter 2017 Editor’s Note

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Winter 2017 ♦

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One of the most formative moments of my life was when I acquired a library card. I was around seven, and one day after school my father, a high school history teacher, took me to the squat, brown-bricked building in downtown Pineville, Kentucky. The kind librarian at the desk handed…

Interview: Julie Hensley

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Winter 2017 ♦

Interview

Most artists carry their childhood landscape like a native language,” poet and fiction writer Julie Hensley states, an observation that contains the framework for her captivating short story collection Landfall, recently published by The Ohio State University Press. Winner of the Non/ Fiction Collection Prize, the book centers on Conrad’s…

2016 Denny C. Plattner Awards

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Fall 2016 Editor’s Note

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Fall 2016 ♦

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Ask any fiction writer and they will likely tell you there are glimpses of themselves in nearly every character they create. Their obsessions, desires, and fears are often tucked away in the shadows and clefts of their characters, a small part of the fictional whole. Readers are left to wonder…