The Appalachia Book Company is a non-profit publisher and literary event company dedicated to empowering the voices of central Appalachia. We seek to preserve and promote the rich literary history of our region and to discover and provide opportunities to emerging writers. We publish a chapbook series called Made in Appalachia along with special projects.  

We look for writers who hail from central Appalachia, the Appalachia subregion as defined by the Appalachian Regional Commission. This subregion includes parts of eastern Kentucky, southern West Virginia, southwestern Virginia, and eastern Tennessee. The area is remote, mountainous, and traditionally associated with the coal mining industry. 

We also encourage writers with stories based in central Appalachia to submit.  

We embrace our local dialect. We won't stumble over phrases like "If you don't care to" or "I'd reckon" or "rurnt." If you have a story with mamaws and papaws settin' under a paw paw tree, we get it. That said, we do not ask our writers to perform their Appalachian heritage. There is no Appalachian identity or subject matter that we are specifically looking for. 

We pay our writers and publish in print.