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A James Madison University English professor has received a fellowship from an association that promotes Black storytelling in the Appalachian region.
Sitting in the Innovation Brewing outpost taproom at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, writer David Joy takes a sip of his craft ale and pause...
David Joy focuses his latest novel, "Those We Thought We Knew," on a small mountain town in North Carolina and the ways a notebook full of names of local townspeople tears the community apart.
The National Association of Black Storytellers (NABS) wants to honor, celebrate and support Black Appalachian storytellers.
As the inaugural cohort of the Rural Scholars Program completes their first year in the University of Georgia’s College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, the next cohort of three scholars has been chosen.