:: The Dead Mule High School Essay Contest ::
Drum roll please… This was, hands down, the hardest competition I’ve ever worked on with the Dead Mule or any other publication. What a terrific group of writers. Each and every one of you. To the student essayists: You all...
Nick Wynn :: No Taste for Chicken and Dumplings ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement:I am a Southerner–born, bred, raised, and hopefully to be buried in the red clay soil of Georgia. I grew up in rural Georgia and experienced the poverty and wealth of a lumber dependent family. From outdoor toilets,...
Andy Betz :: raconter des salades ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born and raised in Missouri and now live (very, very) close to Atlanta. With the exception of college, I have spent my entire life in the South. raconter des salades I’ve been told no one...
The Dead Mule High School Essay Contest Semi-Finalists
The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature is pleased to announce the semi-finalists (Top 20) in our first ever best of the best writing competition with Olivia Germann-McClain’s students in the writing program at Woodside Arts and Communications Magnet School...
Con Chapman :: My Right Arm ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was raised in Sedalia, Missouri, site of a “skirmish” between Yankee and Rebel forces during the Civil War; while the town had southern sympathizers, I found a Union army cavalry handbook in a stove in the...
Becky Meadows :: Boodoo vs. The Pantyhose ::
Shut hern Legitimacy Statement:I am a farm girl who still reaches for her gum boots to go feed the birds. I grew up in the arms of a grandmother who worked 40 hours a week for 36 years in a...
David VanDevelder :: Her Heroic Final Role in the Fading Persona of So and So ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: My Papaw came up in the Great Smokey Mountains, near Farner, Tennessee and Cherokee, North Carolina. When he was nine, he lost track of the time one summer evening, squirrel hunting up on the mountain, and he...
Sarah Das Gupta :: A Green and Pleasant Land ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: In the UK I’m known as a ‘posh’ Southerner because I live south of Watford. My chidhood was spent in the south of England in a village at the highest point of the North Downs- which with...
Michele Hromada :: River Street ::
I lived most of my life in NY, but for the past year I’ve resided in Savannah, GA. Relocating here had been an adjustment until I discovered the quirky pleasure of walking along the Savannah River with my dog, Noah....
Lou Storey :: The Fit Test ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: An old friend from college living up in Maine visited my home here in Savannah, Georgia. “Why don’t they clean all the moss off these old trees?” she asked. “Cause,’ I explained, “unlike your snow, our moss...
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