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Category: Essays / Memoirs

Jonathan Odell: Memoir: July 2022
Essays / Memoirs

Jonathan Odell: Memoir: July 2022

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Southern Legitimacy Statement: Born and raised a white guy in Jim Crow Mississippi. In other words, I missed a hell of lot of what went on around me from my…

James Rhine: Essay: July 2022
Essays / Memoirs

James Rhine: Essay: July 2022

2022-07-022022-07-02

Southern Legitimacy Statement: Having grown up in the Bible belt to one day feel it a little too strict around my waistline, I’ve spent the latter part of my waking…

James Ryer: Essay: June 2022
Essays / Memoirs

James Ryer: Essay: June 2022

2022-06-04

Southern Legitimacy Statement: The South is comprised of mesmerizing layers of contradiction: What people believe is true or not true. Who you choose to believe. And, what is actually true.…

Jonathan Odell: Memoir: June 2022
Essays / Memoirs

Jonathan Odell: Memoir: June 2022

2022-06-02

Southern Legitimacy Statement: Born and raised a white guy in Jim Crow Mississippi. In other words, I missed a hell of lot of what went on around me from my…

Roger Howell: Memoir: June 2022
Essays / Memoirs

Roger Howell: Memoir: June 2022

2022-06-02

Southern Legitimacy Statement: Being of Southern rootage, the past crawls all over me, pestering me when I’m trying to get to sleep. Recently, I read Absalom, Absalom! again. Broke down…

Andy Betz: Memoir: June 2022
Essays / Memoirs

Andy Betz: Memoir: June 2022

2022-06-022022-06-02

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…

John Dorroh: Memoir: May 2022
Essays / Memoirs, Poetry

John Dorroh: Memoir: May 2022

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Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born in LaRochelle, France, to parents who were serving in the US Army. My dad was from Alabama, and my mom was from Columbus, Mississippi,…

Mitzi Dorton: Essay: May 2022
Essays / Memoirs

Mitzi Dorton: Essay: May 2022

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My Southern Legitimacy Statement: We’ll stop right up here in just a little bit and get us a biscuit. All Things Watermelon I am a southerner, but I have to…

Nwenna Kai: Essay: May 2022
Essays / Memoirs

Nwenna Kai: Essay: May 2022

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Southern Legitimacy Statement: By way of Africa, my people come from rice fields, tobacco, moonshine, and North Carolina oppressive sweat and heat. One of my great great grandmothers I am…

Jessica Bates: Memoir: March 2022
Essays / Memoirs

Jessica Bates: Memoir: March 2022

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Southern Legitimacy Statement: My people hail from Tennessee, and I grew up in my grandpa’s kitchen, with a shotgun in the corner and a bowl of reused flour where he…

Jeremy Tavares: Memoir: March 2022
Essays / Memoirs

Jeremy Tavares: Memoir: March 2022

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Southern Legitimacy Statement: Jeremy Tavares is a poet and writer of gritty fiction. He lives with his wife and son in Austin, Texas. Salvation is Scarier than Damnation Religion was…

John Oliver Hodges: Creative Non-Fiction: March 2022
Essays / Memoirs

John Oliver Hodges: Creative Non-Fiction: March 2022

2022-03-012022-03-08

Southern Legitimacy Statement: Florida is in me and has never left me, though I have left Florida. In Florida I rode the yellow school bus, drove my first car, played…

Peggy Rothbaum: Memoir: Feb 2022
Essays / Memoirs

Peggy Rothbaum: Memoir: Feb 2022

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Southern Legitimacy Statement: I have lived in the South for 4 generations. I went to college and lived in Chapel Hill for 5 years. This was considered “north”. I did…

Marsha Owens: Memoir: Feb 2022
Essays / Memoirs

Marsha Owens: Memoir: Feb 2022

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Southern Legitimacy Statement: Born in Richmond, VA, I’ve made it my forever home. My paternal grandpa was a waterman on the Chesapeake Bay, and to this day, I’m a seafood…

Nathan Webb: Memoir: Feb 2022
Essays / Memoirs

Nathan Webb: Memoir: Feb 2022

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Southern Legitimacy Statement: Having moved out of the South for the first time in my life, The Dead Mule has been instrumental in alleviating homesickness. It’s been a great reminder…

Erin Savage: Memoir: Feb 2022
Essays / Memoirs

Erin Savage: Memoir: Feb 2022

2022-01-312022-01-31

Southern legitimacy statement: My parents dragged me away from the home I loved in Louisville, to put down roots in the frigid Midwest. My time residing in Louisville, the home…

Tom Wade: Essay: Jan 2022
Essays / Memoirs

Tom Wade: Essay: Jan 2022

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Southern Legitimacy Statement: I grew up in Missouri and moved to Georgia almost fifty years ago as a VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America) volunteer. After over three decades of…

Michele Davis: Memoir: Jan 2022
Essays / Memoirs

Michele Davis: Memoir: Jan 2022

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Southern Legitimacy Statement: I have almost always lived in the South (Southern Maryland, Southern India, Southern Florida, and Southern California). Give me an afternoon under live oak trees dripping with…

Jennifer Sapio: Creative Non-Fiction: Jan 2022
Essays / Memoirs

Jennifer Sapio: Creative Non-Fiction: Jan 2022

2021-12-312022-01-03

Southern Legitimacy Statement: You’ll know I’m from the South when you hear my drawl, or smell my Meemaw’s peach cobbler bubbling in the oven. Born and raised in Texas, I…

KD Smith: Creative Non-Fiction: Jan 2022
Essays / Memoirs

KD Smith: Creative Non-Fiction: Jan 2022

2021-12-312022-01-03

Southern Legitimacy Statement: “Stop bein’ ugly or I’ll paint your back porch red.” Jerked from the reverence of a funeral graveside prayer because the fire ants have crawled into your…

Shelia Arnold: Memoir: Jan 2022
Essays / Memoirs

Shelia Arnold: Memoir: Jan 2022

2021-12-31

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I’ve lived in West Tennessee all of my life, and though I believe myself to be the most polished of my siblings, I still have quite a…

Matthew Stokes: Memoir: Jan 2022
Essays / Memoirs

Matthew Stokes: Memoir: Jan 2022

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Southern Legitimacy Statement: My first cousin initially said it and has reminded me often, “You know where your roots are.” His words were in response to my living and teaching…

Howard Pearre: Memoir: Jan 2022
Essays / Memoirs

Howard Pearre: Memoir: Jan 2022

2021-12-312021-12-31

Southern Legitimacy Statement: You may be from around here if you’ve ever loved how cool June mornings are until about eight, but didn’t mind the afternoon heat as long as…

James Ryer: Essay: Dec 2021
Essays / Memoirs

James Ryer: Essay: Dec 2021

2021-12-012021-12-01

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I frequently think about how the South and it’s defining characteristics, good and bad, exist in other cultures and, more recently, have reflected on that in my…

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