Thank you to all our readers, contributors, subscribers, supporters, and creative persons. Thank you for your interest and for entrusting us with such incredible Appalachian creativity. This endeavor has been an honor and joy. I hope we have done well as a venue to inspire creativity and spread a little knowledge about our region.
Below is a list of contributors and supporters, dating back to Thanksgiving 2021. Appalachia Bare is very grateful for their contributions and support. The submissions are linked and listed from oldest to newest. Staff are excluded. Feel free to peruse, click, view, and/or read.
- Anna Pedigo — “grandmother” 1st Prize, 2021 George Scarbrough Poetry Contest
- Anna Laura Reeve — “Tennessee Red Cob” 2nd Prize, 2021 George Scarbrough Poetry Contest
- Michael Bloodworth — “Poor Boy’s Gospel” 3rd Prize, 2021 George Scarbrough Poetry Contest
- M Thomas — “Plain Seeing” Honorable Mention, 2021 George Scarbrough Poetry Contest
- Isabella Back — “Homecoming“
- Danita Dodson — “Mountain Woman in Four Seasons”
- Brandon Michael Ward — “spring, 1981”
- Lona Panter — “Untitled”
- Tony Baker — “Deep Within“
- C.F. Shushok — “Southern Cross”; “Giles County Rapture” — Honorable Mention, 2021 George Scarbrough Poetry Contest
- Brett Taylor — “Brett Taylor’s Old Roads“
- Susan Bartolme — “little Sue from the North thinks”
- Bart Sides — “Valoury Delia” and “Appalachia Song”
- Becky Parker — “Rock, Paper, Scissors“
- Patty Ireland — “Old Enough: An Ars Poetica“
- Linda Hinkle — “Grow Lavender for Luck Child” 1st Prize, 2020 George Washington Harris Short Story Contest
- Kipper Evans — “Louis” 2nd Prize, 2020 George Washington Harris Short Story Contest
- Daniel Dassow — “Elijah” 3rd Prize , 2020 George Washington Harris Short Story Contest
- Richard Yost — “The Fifty-Dollar Grin“
- Bridgette Johnson — “Copperhead Holler” Honorable Mention, 2020 George Washington Harris Short Story Contest
- Bruce Guillaume — Fit.Green.Happy®️
- Wendy Guillaume — “Fitness at Any Age“
- Carter Alden — “Mamaw’s Grace” (Creative Nonfiction)
- Mary Ruden — “Parading for History“
- Madeline Walker — “The Value of Outdoors and Taking Care of It“
- Jackie Eul — “Happiness: Is it still out there?“
- Joshua Hester — “The Neglected Piano“
- Benny F. Shown Sr. — “Flashback in Time – Part V“; “Flashback in Time VI: The Final Entry“
- Pamela Brooks Shown — “Blackberry Season“
- Jim Clark — “Surviving Sequoyah“; “Meat Grinder“
- Jared Crain — “Succession“
- Mark Wallace Maguire — “By Ways of Rust and Flame: The overlooked legacy of Byron Herbert Reece“
- Adam Miller — “Seeing Through the Fog“
- Kat Nelson — “The Spirits of Hollins University’s Presser Hall“
- Trent Eades — “2022 USA Bicycle Championships“; “Going Medieval in Appalachia“
- Jim Clark — “No Color Within the Lines“
- Fit.Green.Happy
- Mountain Challenge
- Historic Ramsey House
- Mary Ruden
- Danita Dodson
- S.M. Marlowe
- DJ Cassanova
- Mark Wallace Maguire
- Ken Parton
- Patty Ireland
- Mary Ellen Spencer
- Allison McKittrick
- Pellissippi Dean, Mike North
- Appalachian Heritage Project
- Zack Foster – Anderson County, Tennessee, Archivist
- Pellissippi State Community College
- University of Tennessee Printing and Mail
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