Still: The Journal (2024)

25/07/2024

Neema Avashia returns to our pages with what she calls one of her “q***r, non-gestational Ammi stories” and we’re so glad to have it! Neema is author of Another Appalachia: Growing Up Q***r and Indian in a Mountain Place (WVU, 2022). Read “Motherhood, Anew” in our summer issue here: https://www.stilljournal.net/neema-avashia-cnf2024.php

22/07/2024

Rebecca Baggett has three new poems in our summer issue. Rebecca has published in Asheville Poetry Review, Poetry Daily, Salt, The Southern Review, and The Sun, and she lives in Athens, Georgia. Read her poetry in our pages here: https://www.stilljournal.net/rebecca-baggett-poetry2024.php

18/07/2024

Lucien Darjeun Meadows reviews The Running Body, a memoir by Emily Pifer (Autumn House, 2022) in our summer issue, “an empowering narrative of reclaiming agency, body, and voice. Pifer’s detailed accounts of what she did (not) eat and her resulting physical transformations offer an honesty and vulnerability both admirable and potentially triggering.” Read the review in our pages here: https://www.stilljournal.net/bookreview-meadows-pifer.php

15/07/2024

Connie Jordan Green returns to our pages with three new poems. Connie lives on a farm in East Tennessee where she writes and gardens. She is the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the East Tennessee Writers Hall of Fame and a Tribute to the Arts Award from the Arts Council of Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Read her new work in our summer issue here: https://www.stilljournal.net/connie-jordan-green-poetry2024.php

11/07/2024

We’re honored to have Dianne Aprile’s film-inspired creative nonfiction about her Aunt Eenie, who endured a lobotomy in 1955 in an attempt to quell “the troublemaker, the devil who made her do it, the gremlin at fault for her compulsive handwashing, her sexually obsessive thoughts, her fears. Her brain—specifically, the medial ventral frontal lobe—needed attention, it was decided.” Read “Dutch Tilt” in our summer issue here: https://www.stilljournal.net/dianne-aprile-cnf2024.php

08/07/2024

Michael Lockett makes his debut in our summer issue with his story set in Pittsburgh, “The Striped Orange Cat in the Turtleneck.” Michael’s collection of shorts is In the Cut (Sunbury Press, 2023). Read his story in our pages here: https://www.stilljournal.net/michael-lockett-fiction2024.php

05/07/2024

Matthew Wimberley reviews The Intimacy of Spoons, poems by Jim Minick (Madville Publishing, 2024) in our summer issue: “Music connects these poems directly, whether the music of spoons, of lungs, and particularly of birds which flock and murmurate and exaltate, roosting and singing in poem after poem.” Read the review in our pages here: https://www.stilljournal.net/bookreview-wimberley-minick.php

02/07/2024

We’re so excited to share this interview with memoirist and fiction writer Jonathan Corcoran with our readers! Jonathan’s memoir, No Son of Mine, is receiving rave reviews and is connecting with readers on deep levels. Jonathan talked with us about memory, the role of the memoirist, and how trauma is sometimes relieved through writing. Read it here: https://www.stilljournal.net/interview-jonathan-corcoran.php

27/06/2024

And we're live!
Enjoy our summer issue at https://www.stilljournal.net/

18/06/2024

Our summer issue is nearly ready for publication later this month, and we can’t wait to share it with you! In the meantime, please visit our current issue to read new poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and other special features. Find us at www.stilljournal.net

06/06/2024

We’re working hard to get our summer issue ready for publication later this month, and we can’t wait to share it with you. In the meantime, please visit our current issue to read new poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and other special features. Find us at https://www.stilljournal.net/

29/05/2024

Our Multimedia feature is a documentary film, “The Masked Man,” by Stephen Newton, a writer and independent filmmaker living in Southern Appalachia. Newton’s film explores the creative process of self-taught photographer Mike Miller, of Glade Spring, Virginia, who has been creating masked self-portraits for more than ten years. View the film in our winter issue here:
https://www.stilljournal.net/multimedia-stephen-newton.php

23/05/2024

Shauna Jones’s poignant creative nonfiction, “How to Handle Your Baby Brother's Homicide: A Brief Guide,” appears in our winter issue. She graduated from West Virginia Wesleyan College's MFA program, and her writings focus on the body and spirit, resiliency, and the haziness of memory. Read her inventive essay in our pages: https://www.stilljournal.net/shauna-jones-cnf2024.php

20/05/2024

“McGinley has a prose style as clean as a bone, but authentic to the speech and ways of mountain folk.” Read Dale Neal’s review of Chris McGinley’s novel ONCE THESE HILLS in our winter issue here: https://www.stilljournal.net/bookreview-neal-mcginley.php

16/05/2024

Angela Jackson-Brown recounts the struggles of balancing mental health with teaching and family in “The Impossible Dance,” new creative nonfiction in our winter issue. Angela is the award-winning writer of five novels. Read Angel’s essay in our pages here: https://www.stilljournal.net/angela-jackson-brown-cnf2024.php

13/05/2024

We’re so excited to have a story by Elaine Fowler Palencia in our winter issue that returns to her beloved fictional community of Blue Valley. Elaine grew up in Eastern Kentucky and has written six novels. Read “Coming from Off” here: https://www.stilljournal.net/elaine-fowler-palencia-fiction2024.php

09/05/2024

Angel Sands Gunn returns to our pages with new creative nonfiction, a touching account of working as a tour guide one summer in Memphis, Tennessee. Read “Graceland” in our winter issue here: https://www.stilljournal.net/angel-sands-gunn-cnf2024.php

06/05/2024

“VALEDICTION has a luminous, spiritual quality, but it is the earthy language—precise and chiseled, with the earthy diction and humor of Appalachia threaded through even the most somber poems—that bring the poems to life.” Read Katherine Smith’s review of Linda Parsons’s new book of poems in our winter issue here: https://www.stilljournal.net/bookreview-smith-parsons.php

02/05/2024

Loren Crawford teaches and creates theater with young people at a school she loves in Louisville, Kentucky. Read her creative nonfiction, “Retreat,” in our winter issue here: https://www.stilljournal.net/loren-crawford-cnf2024.php

30/04/2024

National Poetry Month Spotlight: We talked to poet Dorian Hairston about his debut collection, _Pretend the Ball Is Named Jim Crow: The Josh Gibson Story_. “Emotive, prescient, and absorbing, these powerful poems address social change, culture, family, race, death, and oppression—while honoring and giving voice to Gibson and a voiceless generation of African Americans.” Read about Dorian and his new book in our winter issue here: https://www.stilljournal.net/interview-dorian-hairston.php

29/04/2024

National Poetry Month Spotlight: Six new poems by Clinton Waters, of Bowling Green, Kentucky. Clint is a freelance writer and bug aficionado and the author of several titles of sci-fi. Read their poetry in our pages here: https://www.stilljournal.net/clinton-w-waters-poetry2024.php

25/04/2024

National Poetry Month Spotlight: West Virginia Poet Laureate Marc Harshman returns to our pages with four new poems. His newest full-length collection of poems is Following the Silence from Press 53. Read Marc’s new poems in our winter issue here: https://www.stilljournal.net/marc-harshman-poetry2024.php

22/04/2024

National Poetry Month Spotlight: Celebrated poet Mary B. Moore has two new poems about mountains in our winter issue, and we’re lucky to welcome her back to our pages. Read “Meanwhile the Mountain” and “Michael’s Mountain” in our pages here: https://www.stilljournal.net/mary-b-moore-poetry2024.php

18/04/2024

National Poetry Month Spotlight: We are honored to share this poem by Brandon Sun Eagle Jent about the 2022 flood in Eastern Kentucky. A lover of words, languages, and stories, Brandon holds a Masters degree in Linguistic Theory and Typology from the University of Kentucky. Read “Instructions for Surviving a One Thousand Year Flood” in our winter issue here: https://www.stilljournal.net/brandon-sun-eagle-jent-poetry2024.php

15/04/2024

National Poetry Month Spotlight: Help us welcome Susanna Spearman to our winter issue with four new poems. Susanna is a q***r, Appalachian poet originally from South Carolina, and an MFA student at Eastern Kentucky University’s Bluegrass Writers Studio. Read their poems in our pages here: https://www.stilljournal.net/susanna-spearman-poetry2024.php

11/04/2024

National Poetry Month Spotlight: We welcome NitaJade to our pages with three new poems. NitaJade is an Affrilachian Poet who earned their MFA in Creative Writing from University of Kentucky. They teach English at Emory & Henry College. Read their poems in our winter issue here: https://www.stilljournal.net/nitajade-poetry2024.php

08/04/2024

National Poetry Month Spotlight: We welcome poet Pauletta Hansel back to our pages with five new poems from a manuscript in progress tracing her maternal line from pre-colonial Virginia into the mountains of North Carolina, southwestern Virginia, and southeastern Kentucky, where she was born and raised. Read Pauletta’s new poems in our winter issue here:
https://www.stilljournal.net/pauletta-hansel-poetry2024.php

05/04/2024

National Poetry Month Spotlight: We’re featuring three new poems by Katerina Stoykova in our winter issue. Katerina is founder and senior editor of Accents Publishing. Read her poetry in our pages here: https://www.stilljournal.net/katerina-stoykova-poetry2024.php

03/04/2024

National Poetry Month Spotlight: We’re glad to share two new poems from Julie Hensley, part of her novel-in-poems that chronicles the courtship and marriage of a couple who builds a homestead together in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Julie is a core faculty member of the Bluegrass Writers Studio at Eastern Kentucky University, where she teaches both fiction and poetry. Read her poems in our winter issue here: https://www.stilljournal.net/julie-c-hensley-poetry2024.php

01/04/2024

National Poetry Month Spotlight: We’re so lucky to have a poem in our winter issue by Mackenzie Berry, a poet from Louisville, Kentucky, and author of SLACK TONGUE CITY from Sundress Publications. Read “Trust a Woman with Many Jars” in our winter issue here:
https://www.stilljournal.net/mackenzie-berry-poetry2024.php

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