Untelling Magazine | Summer 2024

“Untelling” is a regional colloquialism used when storytelling or speculating, such as “It’s untelling what will happen.” It is a point of not knowing. We want to publish work that takes us to that point of not knowing, and then connects us, teaches us, and makes us see and understand the world in new ways.

Untelling will be a print publication much like a standard literary journal in that it will be full of poems, stories, and essays, but we will also feature full color art and photography throughout. 

Launching in July 2024, Untelling is a semi-annual journal with two publications each year. Your annual subscription will subscribe you to two issues, and a two-year subscription will subscribe you for four issues. 

This inaugural issue, with cover photography by Justin Brown, includes work from 28 poets, 6 prose writers, and 14 artists from Appalachia and beyond!

We invite you to take a look at the full listing of pieces and contributors in the first issue along with a first glimpse at a number of the poems, stories and art contained within.

• Untelling   Non-fiction by Amy Clark
• Blue Night at the Nursing Home   Poem by Marianne Worthington
• Empty Nest   Art by Debby Bird
• Coal   Poem by James Owens
• Stories to be Told   Photography by Tyler Barrett
• No Quietness in the Belly   Poem by Jamey Temple
• Vale   Photography by Karah Tull
• Uncertainty   Poem by Ace Boggess

This issue features those who have long been involved in the Hindman writing community and those who are brand new. There are several folks included who this is their first publication credit, all the way to familiar and well-established creators like West Virginia Poet Laureate Marc Harshman and local artist of “No Hate in My Holler” fame Lacy Hale.