Wind Magazine

Quentin R. Howard founded Wind in 1971 in Pikeville, Kentucky. His goal was to produce an eclectic, high-quality magazine while giving newcomers and emerging writers a chance at publication. For twenty-two years Quentin edited and published the growing magazine from his modest home on an eastern Kentucky hillside overlooking the valley's railroad and coal tipple. During that time Wind became one of the nation's longest-lived, the longest-lived in Kentucky, and among the most respected literary journals. Quentin proudly stated,"Readers of Wind include professors, factory workers, and housewives."Throughout the years the work of talented newcomers has appeared in the pages of wind alongside the work of some of the nation's best-known writers.