Watauga Regional Library
- State agency supporting public library services in Carter, Greene, Johnson, Sullivan, Unicoi, and Washington counties. Includes directory of local libraries, catalogs, and other resources.
- http://www.wrlibrary.org/

Lost State Writers Conference
- Writers conference in East Tennessee featuring published authors, agents, editors and publishers. Workshops, panel discussions on fiction, non-fiction. Held in September.
- http://loststatewriters.xtn.net

Johnson City Area Arts Council
- Regional arts council dedicated to preserving and nurturing the traditional arts and cultural communities in the five-county area of Carter, Greene, Johnson, Unicoi and Washington
- http://www.arts.org/