Silas House – Appalachian Review

Interview: Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle

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Fall 2019/Winter 2020 ♦

Interview

When it is published later this year, Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle’s debut novel will mark a milestone in American and Appalachian literature. Even As We Breathe, which tells the story of a young Cherokee man struggling with the limitations of his community and the prejudice of the outside world, will be…

In Conversation: Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon & Rebecca Gayle Howell

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Spring 2018 ♦

Interview

When the 2017 Appalachian Symposium was held at Berea College last fall, expectations were high. After all, the debut of the biennial event in September 2015 had set a high bar, when thirty of Appalachia’s most celebrated and active writers had gathered to discuss the current state of literature and…

We Got Lucky: My Life with Tom Petty

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Creative Nonfiction, Special Feature

I was seventeen when I first loved him. Seventeen and a complete mess. I had recently “gone wild.” That’s what people in my church said. All my life I had been the perfect little Holiness boy, and I had only recently started to drink: Natural Light or Jim Beam. And…

Interview: Crystal Wilkinson

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Spring 2016 ♦

Interview

In the introduction to her debut short story collection Blackberries, Blackberries, celebrated fiction writer Crystal Wilkinson drew a strong connection between two parts of her identity. “Being country,” she wrote, “is as much a part of me as my full lips, wide hips, dreadlocks and high cheekbones. There are many…