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The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature
April International Poetry Issue. No good [Southern] writing is complete without a dead mule. Established 1996.
The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature
April International Poetry Issue. No good [Southern] writing is complete without a dead mule. Established 1996.
Fiction

Edward Supranowicz: Fiction: Nov 2021

Southern Legitimacy Statement: Been a while, and this is not...
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Fiction

Lee Ann Sontheimer Murphy: Fiction: Nov 2021

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I like my tea sweet but not...
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Fiction

Teresa Alexander: Fiction: Nov 2021

Southern Legitimacy Statement:  I was born in north Alabama to...
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Poetry

Tom Daley : Poetry : Nov 2021

Southern Legitimacy Statement: Perhaps some would say that as a...
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Essays

Cecile Dixon: Memoir : Nov 2021

Southern Legitamacy Statement I was born and raised in a...
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Poetry

Marie Griffin: Poetry: Oct 2021

Southern Legitimacy Statement: The simple fact of being a South...
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Essays

Katy Goforth: Creative Non-Fiction: Oct 2021

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born and raised in Spartanburg,...
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Fiction

Marco Etheridge: Fiction: Oct 2021

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I don’t know if any of my...
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Fiction

Robb T. White: Fiction: Oct 2021

Southern Legitimacy Statement: As I expressed three years prior, when...
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Poetry

William Heath: poetry: Oct 2021

Southern Legitimacy Statement: …taught for five years at Transylvania University...
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Poetry

Kalyn Livernois: Poetry: Oct 2021

Southern Legitimacy Statement: When I was 15, I gave away...
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Poetry

Traci Elliott: Poetry: Oct 2021

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I come from Charlotte. When I was...
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Essays

Christina Rauh Fishburne: Creative Non-Fiction: Oct 2021

Southern Legitimacy Statement: My family yanked me from Virginia and...
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Essays

James Ryer: Essay: Oct 2021

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born in the South, raised...
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Fiction

M.S. Gardner: Flash Fiction: Oct 2021

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I’ve lived South of the Mason-Dixon Line...
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Essays

Terry Barr: Essay: Oct 2021

Southern Legitimacy Statement As a native southerner and recovering Alabamian,...
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