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What is Appalachian fiction? What makes it unique?
Wendell Berry throws out some suggestions in his short piece, The Long Legged House:

“As I worked that summer I had these lines of [Andrew] Marvell very fresh in my mind, and they were having a…

Appalachian Poets and Writers has links to Library holdings and related material for a few local poets and writers, including Lou Crabtree and Lee Smith. It also provides links to the Appalachian Collection at the Washington County Public Library and…

Includes links to the Henry McCarthy Collection, part of the Southern Folklife Collection at Louis Round Wilson Special Collection Library at the Universityof North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and to an archive of Henry's Poets and Writers radio program…

Lou Crabtree Lou V. Crabtree (1913-2006)- "Lou Crabtree...lived most of her life in Washington County, VA. Her career...included school teaching, farming, directing a band, and lecturing. Her first book, a collection of short stories entitled Sweet…

Lee Smith and Lou Crabtree met in 1980 at a literary event in Abingdon during the Virginia Highlands Festival, a meeting which was humorously detailed in Lee Smith's reflection on her writing life, Dimestore. It was a portentuous meeting, as they…

Appalachian Homecoming was conceived as a series of programs all taking place at the Washington County (Va.) Public Library highlighting positive aspects of Appalachian life and culture. While planning the program we talked to people like Randy…

Appalachia, home of the "strange land and peculiar people" in thousands of stories, novels, radio and TV programs and films...has produced some of the most important writers, artists, scientists, and politicians in the country. These are the stories…

Abingdon is no stranger to poets and poetry. Longtime Abingdon resident Lou Crabtree, won the Edgar Allen Poe Award for poetry and was named Virginia Laureate in Literature.

The Sow's Ear Press began operation in Abingdon in 1987. Sow's Ear (since…