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Appalachia [1]

Basic Information
State: 
Massachusetts
Website: 
https://outdoors.org/resources/appalachia [2]
Country: 
United States
Submission Guidelines: 
https://outdoors.org/resources/appalachia [2]
Address: 
10 City Square
City: 
Boston
Zip / Postal Code: 
02129
Contact Information
Christine
Woodside
Editor in Chief
Contact E-mail: 
christine.woodside@gmail.com [3]
Details
Formats: 
Print
Payment: 
Cash
Genres Published: 
Poetry
Fiction
Creative Nonfiction
Charges Reading Fee: 
No
Accepts Unsolicited Submissions: 
Yes
Accepts Simultaneous Submissions: 
Yes
Reading Period: 
Jan 1 to Dec 31
Response Time: 
3 to 6 months
$18 for 1 year, $32 for 2 years, $42 for 3 years. This will increase in 2025.

Appalachia welcomes narrative, historical, and science essays on the following topics: mountain, wilderness, and backcountry adventure; technical climbing; canoeing and kayaking; nature and climate change; and land ethics. It accepts fiction stories of up to 5,000 words and plans to publish one fiction story per issue. The magazine works far ahead and publishes twice a year. The editors accept submissions all year, but response time can be quick from April-June and October-December. They sometimes will take months to respond but welcome a check-in.

The journal publishes short pieces about adventure in the Skyline Sketches department. Sometimes newsier pieces about mountains, rescue, and science.

It sponsors the Waterman Fund Essay Contest for emerging writers on wilderness topics. Deadline usually mid-March. Appalachia cosponsors with the Waterman Fund. See watermanfund.org. Those who have not published major work on the journal's subjects may submit 2,000- to 3,000-word essays on the role and place of wilderness in the modern world. First prize is $1,500. Second prize is $500. 

Representative Authors: 
Poets: Todd Davis, Hilary Russell, Elizabeth Bradfield. We published Mary Oliver for many years. Nonfiction: Stephen Kurczy, Michael Wejchert, Elissa Ely, Ben Montgomery, W.D. Wetherell, Sandy Stott, Lisa Densmore Ballard, Eric Lehman, Christine Woodside
Issues per Year: 
2
Year Founded: 
1876
Distributors: 
Appalachian Mountain Club
Percentage of Unsolicited Submissions Published: 
11% to 25%
Issue Price: 
$10
Number of Debut Authors per Issue: 
2
5,000 to 10,000
Subgenres: 
Fiction [4]
Flash Fiction [5]
Narrative Nonfiction [6]
Nature/Environmental [7]
Poetry [8]

Source URL:https://www.pw.org/literary_magazines/appalachia

Links
[1] https://www.pw.org/literary_magazines/appalachia [2] https://outdoors.org/resources/appalachia [3] mailto:christine.woodside@gmail.com [4] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/fiction [5] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/flash_fiction [6] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/narrative_nonfiction [7] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/nature-environmental [8] https://www.pw.org/category/themes/poetry