A Grateful Heart

We’ve come to the time of year when we as a people offer thanks. We have celebrated a harvest season and gathered together to renew, refresh, and, hopefully, repair. In a continuance of these festivities, Appalachia Bare would like to thank you—our readers, perusers, contributers, submitters, supporters, and friends. Thank you, Appalachia, for all your creativity, talent, and beauty. We offer our heartfelt gratitude to you all, along with a steadfast commitment to remain a venue for the creative spirit in these mountains. We are so honored to have read and shared your stories. And this time of year, we pay tribute to you once again, our contributers for 2024:

Fiction

• Daniel Stetson Ray—–“Cedar Creek”
• Rod Barfield—–“Lottie Finds Work in the Fields”
• Susan Long—–“Bookmobile”
• Caroline Hughes—–“Going to Water”
• Russell Fine—–“Daisy”
• Rocky Kidd—–“The Unbroken Circle”
• Catherine Herlihy—–“Cass”
• Shanon Adame—–“The Snake”

Nonfiction

• Rebecca Williams Mlynarczyk—–“Oak Ridge”
• Jim Clark—–“Life and Death in Carter County” and “Disaster in the Philippines, Part 1”
• Susan Evans—–“A Stitch in Time”
• Curtis N. Coulter—–“Remembering Miss Annabel Aslinger”
• Evelyn Creekmore—–“Elkmont: Still Not an Abandoned Ghost Town”
• Jim Murphy—–“Sent Away”
• Arthur J. Stewart—–“How to Take Care of a Stream”
• David Curran—–“Trails of Wrathful Waters”
• Alexandra Ogle—–“Mammaw’s Girl”
• Jerry Morton—–“A Reading”
• Susan Hunt Babinski—–In Just a Year: Coming of Age in Vietnam, Excerpts
• Brenda Prater Sellers—–“Raised on a Farm”

Poetry

• Brett Gordon—–“Honey and Wildfire”
• Emily Brown—–“sunrise”
• Zoe Yates—–“Greenhome”
• Kwopi Stein—–“Resting Fields”
• Neva Bryan—–“Powell Valley Scenic Overlook” and “Revelation”
• Becky Parker—–“Attentive”
• Lee Blevins—–“Two Walking Sticks”
• William R. Stoddart—–“Pinky Swear”
• Leigh Ann Roman—–“First Generation”
• Megan Krupa—–“Mountain Edging”
• Kaitlyn Brown—–“A Day in the Garden”
• Claire Elise Baker—–“Mother: Time”

Special Thanks

• Joseph “Black Atticus” Woods, Knoxville Tennessee’s Poet Laureate
• Danita Dodson, Appalachian Poet
• SEEED (Socially Equal Energy Efficient Development)
• Pellissippi State Community College
• Young Creative Writers Workshop
• Amber Albritton, Appalachian Poet
• Authors Guild of Tennessee
• Briar Haus Writes
• Tennessee Mountain Writers

**Featured image of Smoky Mountains: Emilie from Pixabay