Fixing to Shout & Sing: STILL: Literature of the Mountain South

10.22.2009

STILL: Literature of the Mountain South

The inaugural issue of STILL: Literature of the Mountain South debuted this week. The online journal features writing devoted to the southern Appalachian region.

Poets featured in the first volume are Steve Holt, poet and teacher from northeastern Kentucky, Ron Houchin, award-winning poet from Huntington, West Virginia, Irene Latham, poet, novelist, and editor from Birmingham, Alabama, Lisa Parker, poet and musician from Virginia, and Josh Robbins, poet and teacher who lives and works in Knoxville, Tennessee.

Fiction writers featured are Mark Powell, novelist and teacher from South Carolina, Kathi Whitley, short fiction writer and music manager from eastern Kentucky, and Tiffany Williams, short fiction writer and teacher from Pikeville, Kentucky.

Nonfiction writers are Donna McClanahan, essayist, fiction writer, and poet from Irvine, Kentucky, Karen Salyer McElmurray, award-winning memorist and novelist from eastern Kentucky, and Beth Newberry, editor and essayist from Louisville, Kentucky.

Still features an interview with Appalachian scholar, musician, activist, and writer Jack Wright, and a video song clip from Sue Massek, long-time member of The Reel World String Band.

The editors will publish new issues three times a year and will sponsor a contest later in 2010.

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Marianne Worthington

Marianne Worthington, a native of Knoxville, Tennessee, is a poet and educator living in Williamsburg, Kentucky, since 1990. Her poetry chapbook, Larger Bodies Than Mine (Finishing Line Press, 2006), was included in Finishing Line’s New Women’s Voices series and chosen as the 2007 Appalachian Book of the Year in poetry by the Appalachian Writers Association. She is editor of Motif: Writing By Ear, An Anthology of Writings About Music (MotesBooks, 2009) and Motif 2: Come What May, An Anthology of Writings About Chance (MotesBooks, 2010). Worthington is poetry editor and former book reviews editor for Now & Then: The Appalachian Magazine. Along with Silas House and Jason Howard, she founded the online literary journal Still: The Journal in 2009, for which she serves as poetry editor. She is associate professor of Communication and Journalism at University of the Cumberlands, and a creative writing instructor for the Kentucky Governor’s School for the Arts.

Her poems, essays, reviews and feature articles have appeared widely and in several anthologies, including We All Live Downstream: Writings about Mountaintop Removal, Knoxville Bound, Women.Period, Chopin with Cherries, and Cornbread Nation 5. She received the Berea College Appalachian Music Fellowship for 2009, the Al Smith Fellowship from the Kentucky Arts Council in 2008, an Individual Artist Grant from the Kentucky Foundation for Women in 2007, and the Denny C. Plattner Award for Nonfiction in 2007. She often teaches writing workshops throughout Kentucky and the Southeast.