Creative Non-Fiction

Kimberly Williams :: “Southern Cornbread Dressing as described in The New Perry Hotel: A Century of Southern Hospitality, A Compilation of Memories and Favorite Recipes of Nannette Green in Her 50th Year at the New Perry Hotel” by Bobbe Nelson ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: Born and raised in west Georgia and east Alabama, my high school mascot was a distinguished Civil War soldier and my grandparents never pronounced the “r” in my first name. Pot likker soothed my colic and constipation,...
Flash Fiction

Randall Ivey :: Call Me Aa-ron ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement:  Despite being from a place called Union (South Carolina), I am a born, bred, and dyed-in-the wool Southerner. Call Me Aa-ron If you run into me somewhere and say hey, don’t call me Air-ron.  That ain’t my...
Essays

Rowan Tate :: Ancestry ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I grew up in a family of Romanian immigrants— my grandmother and five children— that all live in Atlanta, Georgia. I currently live in southern Romania. *Editor’s note: This essay is especially important today as we face...
Flash Fiction

Scott McLeod :: Cody ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I am from the South shore of Long Island which is positively Faulknerian if you compare it to Gatsby’s East Egg. Cody  “You ever seen a dead body?” asked Cody. I was just glad he was speaking...
Fiction

Fox Good :: He Keeps the Faith ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: Raised in Maryland, 10 miles from the Mason Dixon. Summered and Wintered (and more often than not Sprung and Fell) in West Virginia, where nouns are verbs and verbs are for the doin’. Drinking Costa Rican coffee,...
Flash Fiction

Karen Klein :: Remnants ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: This story arrived while I was sitting in the cemetery in Morgantown, West Virginia at the end of S High Street. It was a place I frequented often on sunny days, or cool days, too if it...