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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.
Poetry

Shelley Nation-Watson: Poetry : Oct 2021

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

Ronald McGuire : Fiction : Sept. 2021

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born about as far south...
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Essays

Daniel Melchior Jr: Memoir: Sept 2021

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I grew up in the Ohio River...
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Fiction

Claiborne Barksdale: Fiction: Sept 2021

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I practiced law for 25 years and...
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Poetry

Lydia Yawn: Poetry: Sept 2021

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born in Vidalia, Georgia, but...
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Poetry

Gary Carter: Poetry: Sept 2021

Southern Legitimacy Statement: Having been blessed and honored to have...
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Fiction

David Swan: Fiction: Sept 2021

Southern Legitimacy Statement: People say football is religion in the...
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Poetry

Dennis Ferrara: Poetry: Sept 2021

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I live in Virginia, have lived here...
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Fiction

David F. VanDevelder: Fiction: Sept. 2021

Southern Legitimacy Statement: We were a prototypical southern nuclear family....
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Fiction

PA Knight: Fiction: Sept 2021

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born in Richmond, Virginia and...
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Poetry

Jane Blanchard: Poetry: Sept. 2021

Southern Legitimacy Statement: Native to Virginia and long-resident in Georgia,...
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Poetry

Lisa Creech Bledsoe: Poetry: Sept. 2021

Southern Legitimacy Statement: My father’s family were Appalachian farmers from...
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Essays

Ryan Vale McGonigle: Memoir: Sept. 2021

Southern Legitimacy Statement: Born and raised in North Carolina to...
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Poetry

Mike Horan: Poetry: Sept. 2021

Southern Legitimacy Statement: Mike Horan was raised in the South...
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Essays

Ashley Kemker: Essay: Sept. 2021

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born in the North, to...
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Fiction

Tyler Robert Sheldon: Flash Fiction: Sept. 2021

SOUTHERN LEGITIMACY STATEMENT I’ve lived in Louisiana for five years:...
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