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Harry Neil :: We Discover Cottage Cheese ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born in a very rural part of North Carolina’s Cape Fear Basin. My grade school was part of Penderlea, “America’s first farm city,” a depression-era homesteading project that ultimately failed. I went on to the...

Creative Non-Fiction / Memoirs

R. L. Frazier :: Timmy ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I grew up in a part of Oklahoma known as Little Dixie. I don’t consider Oklahoma to be in the Deep South any more than you do, but I believe most Oklahomans to be Southerners – the...

Creative Non-Fiction / Memoirs

Matthew Bearden :: A Trip Through God’s Country ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born and raised in Palestine, Texas. I carry it with me. I may be a pro-choice, non-southern baptist, resident of Wisconsin, but I am still a Texan! I’ll be thankin’ of all y’all when I...

Poetry

Almyr L. Bump :: Quiet Splendor; Other Clay; A Harsh Reminder ::

I am a native of Dobson, North Carolina, so yes, I am in fact south of somewhere! I am an infantry officer working as a regional response planner for NORTHCOM Homeland Region I. Quiet Splendor Landmarks and milestones speakto us...

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Lisa Kosow :: Jerry Lee Lewis Pushes a Piano into the Ocean :: Three Poems ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born in the Blue Ridge mountains in southwestern Virginia, and those mountains are still imprinted on my soul—I find it necessary to visit and hike there every year. My father raised me on bluegrass music,...

Flash Fiction

Trent Brown :: And I Was Afraid, Because I Was Naked, And I Hid Myself ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born and raised on a farm in Cerro Gordo, North Carolina – a town of around 200-300 people you have almost certainly never heard of. The main attractions are: the Wikipedia description of the town’s...

Flash Fiction

Stephanie Katz :: Fiddler Crab Claws in the Moonlight ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I’ve spent my whole life living in Florida on an island south of Tampa. My mother, who grew up in the southern tip of Ohio, wanted to raise me by the beach, baptized by salt and sun....

Fiction

Theresa Jones :: Hundred Dollar Shoes ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born and raised Roll Tide. I learned to cook with three spices: salt, pepper, and bacon fat. I was a young adult before I ever heard of barbecued beef. Barbecue sauce was white. In the...

Flash Fiction

Eleanor Levine :: Lurch ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I love the South and went to Hollins University and received an MFA in Creative Writing in Roanoke, VA. While in Roanoke, I worked in a box factory, but was not very successful. They kicked me out...

Creative Non-Fiction / Memoirs

Ashley Elizabeth Hewitt :: Woodsia Lane ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: Born in Jackson, Mississippi, I attended Millsaps College and more recently completed my MFA in Creative Writing at the Mississippi University for Women. I have lived in New Orleans for twenty years but built a log cabin...

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Harry Neil :: We Discover Cottage Cheese ::

R. L. Frazier :: Timmy ::

Matthew Bearden :: A Trip Through God’s Country ::

Almyr L. Bump :: Quiet Splendor; Other Clay; A Harsh Reminder ::

Lisa Kosow :: Jerry Lee Lewis Pushes a Piano into the Ocean :: Three Poems ::

Trent Brown :: And I Was Afraid, Because I Was Naked, And I Hid Myself ::

Stephanie Katz :: Fiddler Crab Claws in the Moonlight ::

Theresa Jones :: Hundred Dollar Shoes ::

Eleanor Levine :: Lurch ::

Ashley Elizabeth Hewitt :: Woodsia Lane ::

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