Terrence Sykes: Preaching To the Chickens (fiction)
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I fear that my complete listing of southern legitimacy would crash the cosmos & petunias so I shall HENCEFORTHWITH condense – I was born a coal miner’s son in the coal hollers of southwestern Virginia & as...
Brandy McCann: Of A Certain Age (fiction)
My Southern Legitimacy Statement: You can easily hear it when I talk, and even other southerners ask me where, exactly, I’m from. I have deep roots in the coalfield south. I am from a working class, multigenerational mountain family, most...
Bryanna Stutzman: The Wonders of Change (memoir)
Southern Legitimacy Statement; I was born and raised in the shadow of the Blue Ridge Mountains. “Y’all” has been part of my vernacular since birth. The Wonders of Change It was a cool autumn day, the leaves were changing, and...
Dixon Hearne: Duty (short fiction)
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born and raised along the levees and river traces in northern Louisiana. It was an idyllic time, a Huck Finn boyhood. I moved back home two years ago, after many years living where my career took...
Eric Luthi: Turkeys, Clydesdales and Guided Missiles (fiction)
Southern Legitimacy Statement: i was born in Hollywood, California (yes, really) to parents who came to America after the war in Europe. My wife has a more interesting history, having ancestors who fought on both sides of the Civil War....
Helen Losse: Snippets of Holiness (A Chapbook)
Snippets of Holiness A Chapbook of Collected and New Poems by Helen Losse *** I. Poems from Gathering the Broken Pieces (FootHills Publishing, Kanona, NY, 2004) Voices I want to eat ambrosia, dine with the gods. Dance. Seraphim at the...
Con Chapman: Bo Peep ( fiction)
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born in Missouri, a border state, in a town–Sedalia–that was the scene of a skirmish in the Civil War. My mother’s people were from Virginia, and she took the side of the South whenever we played...
D.T. Robbins: Ghosts Undying (fiction)
Southern Legitimacy Statement: D.T. Robbins was born and raised in Hammond, Louisiana by two parents who barely tolerated one another and a village of Pentecostals. He also spent a few years in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. He is Cajun-blooded and, contrary to...
Kelly Ann Jacobson: Orientations (short fiction)
Southern Legitimacy Statement: For the last ten years I lived in Washington, D.C. or Northern Virginia as I worked toward my undergraduate and graduate degrees and taught at several colleges. Now, I live in Tallahassee, Florida, where I’m currently working...
Scott Hutchison : Three Poems (poetry)
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born in Richmond, Virginia and raised on a thoroughbred race horse farm in nearby Ashland. My upbringing pulses in my veins: I have been blessed by both earth and animal. Shooting Holes in Signs Grandpa’s...
Epiphany Ferrell: About the Money (fiction)
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I live in Southern Illinois. Yes I know Illinois is a Yankee state. Hear me out. First off, the regional newspaper capitalizes the S in Southern Illinois because we are an area distinct from the rest of...
Jesse Miller: Dancing (fiction)
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I grew in the deepest part of south Georgia where high school was integrated but homecoming courts and year book superlatives were not. This was a quiet, pleasant town but the atmosphere of the town still clung...
Paul Castonguay: And All of Us, Clay (fiction)
Southern Legitimacy Statement: My parent’s left New England for a small town in Virginia’s New River Valley four years before I was born. I started kindergarten with the same 95 people I would graduate high school with. We all grew up...
Anne Anthony: Tulip Tree (short fiction)
Southern Legitimacy Statement: Anne Anthony lives in North Carolina though when she engages you in conversation it’s clear she was born above the Mason-Dixon Line. Still, if she’s reading you her stories, sometimes her voice slides into the gentle sway of...
Anne Anthony to lead session at NC Writer’s Network Spring Conference
The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature contributor Anne Anthony will lead the session “How to Start Submitting” at the North Carolina Writers’ Network 2018 Spring Conference. Click here for full details on the NCWN 2018 Spring Conference. Anne Anthony...
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