Appalachian Authors Alliance Everybody's welcome on the porch.

The Journal

Regular writing about Appalachian literary life — the bookstores worth a detour, the festivals worth the drive, the writers who got the mountains right, and the history underneath all of it.

Sketch of an open book on a patchwork quilt in a mountain meadow, wildflowers and butterflies, layered ridges behind.

The first stories are being written now. They'll be grounded, specific, and honest — the porch standard applies to our own writing most of all.