Winter 2022

Little Piles of Change

Gavin Colton ♦

Winter 2022 ♦

Fiction

Colly was having a pint with Pat in Kavanagh’s after work. Pat had won twenty euro on a scratcher that morning and Colly knew it had been burning a hole in his pocket all day, that he’d be gunning for a pint. Colly was happy not to be going home…

Drought Conditions: Personal Accounts from the 2016 Gatlinburg Wildfires

Jacquelyn Scott ♦

Winter 2022 ♦

Creative Nonfiction

WBIR-TV November 1, 2016—Because of the danger of wildfire, the Great Smoky Mountains National Park has temporarily banned all backcountry fires. East Tennessee is in the midst of a drought, and with the falling leaves now on the ground, the danger of wildfire is very high. Thousands of acres have burned…

In Conversation: Marianne Worthington

Jason Kyle Howard ♦

Winter 2022 ♦

Interview

As a child growing up in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the 1950s and 1960s, Marianne Worthington was surrounded and subsumed by country music. Her parents often tuned their television set to WATE, the local station that aired Knoxville businessman-turned-mayor Cas Walker’s Farm and Home Hour variety show, which featured established and…