Harry James :: The Dog Fell Out of the Truck ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born south of the Ohio River in a border state that declared itself neither North, nor South in that most uncivil of civil wars. In doing so, it proceeded to wander between both beliefs and...
Wess Everett :: Eyes That Cast Stones ::
Southern legitmacy statement: I was born in Fort Payne, Alabama in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains. I’ve lived in Alabama my entire life, and I’ve struggled to find anywhere that I like better. However, like many other southerners, I...
Avi Ben-Zeev :: Troubled Waters ::
Southern legitimacy statement: Okay, so I’m not from The South, and even though I sound American, whatever that means, I was born and raised in the Southern Levant (AKA Palestine). But The South called one day, specifically, the psychology department...
Andrew Keith :: Grudge ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: Raised by rednecks and roughnecks, I reckon no one holds a grudge like a southerner. I’m from Johnson City, Tennessee – yes, the one from “Wagon Wheel” and I sure hope I’m the only ten-you-see. Happy to...
Courtney McEunn :: Sour ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I grew up in the swampy craplands they call central Florida. I ran around the sand roads barefoot, swam in the giant oil puddles they called lakes, went tubing and canoeing alongside alligators and snakes on more...
Lee Wright :: Southern Sunday Snow ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: Growing up in northwest Georgia, very near Chattanooga, right on the Tennessee state line, my parents would drag me to a small independent Pentecostal church every Sunday morning as well as every Sunday and Wednesday night. It...
JD Clapp :: Morrells and Morals ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement–Born a Yankee, grew up a SoCal boy, did a stint in the midwest, but always more at home south of the border in CA, and south of Ohio when I lived there. Gimme a bourbon on the...
Pete Riebling :: Friendlessness ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: went to college in Atlanta… Friendlessness I went to college with a guy who was a little more intelligent than the professors he studied under. Not more intelligent. Savvier. He was able to figure out what they wanted...
Alan Brickman :: Said and Unsaid ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I have lived in New Orleans since 2009, after being raised in New York and spending most of my adult life in Massachusetts. Never having lived in New York City as an adult, I feel like a...
John Frame :: Night Out in Cow Town ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I spent a year living in Charlotte, North Carolina between 1996 and 1997, teaching at UNC-Charlotte and conducting historical research with the help of scholarships from Nations Bank and the St. Andrew’s Society of North Carolina. There...
Casey Clough :: The Hunter ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born and raised in South Carolina. I didn’t learn to love her until long after I’d left her. I dashed out the sweet lilt of an accent in my voice with over enunciated consonants, diligently...
Roger D’Agostin :: Rough Kisses ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: Flannery O’Connor, need I say more? Rough Kisses Before I even say, “Once. Once, this girl.” All of them laugh. Like I just said the funniest thing they ever heard in their life. Like I could make...
Mia Eaker :: Red Lipstick ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born and raised in Pumpkin Center aka Punkin’ Center, North Carolina. I’ve drank moonshine, gathered fresh eggs, fallen into cow manure, and been shocked by an electric fence. Cornbread and story-telling were staples around our...
Michael Amos Cody :: Holy City Buskers ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born in Sumter, South Carolina, grew up in the village of Walnut, jewel of Madison County, North Carolina, and spent my early adulthood in Nashville, Tennessee. I started writing seriously in high school, working in...
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...
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....
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...
Christopher S. Bell :: Stream ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: My South is steam rising up from the lake water and a wealth of abandoned antiquieties sitting on shelves, thier paint slowly fading from the heat. It’s an empty space that flakes like skin and haunts from...
Lucas Zuehl :: Emily ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I used to live in Texas, and it was the only place in the US where people would come up and talk to me without selling me something. Emily A low banging pulses throughout her head. At...
Kenneth M. Kapp :: Bragging Rights ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I’ve been in the south. Got shot at running rural streets in Raleigh, NC; ran free on the levees in New Orleans. Love Faulkner. Parents & in-laws retired in Florida. Almost died from fire ants in Tarpon...
Edward Michael Supranowicz :: A Hundred years From Now ::
Legit: I actually like grits and okra and somewhat understand the everyday despair in Faulkner. A Hundred years From Now There had been 10 pandemics since the first. There also had been two World Wars, 6 race wars, and 3...
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