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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...
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