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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

Paul Jones: Fiction: March 2021

Southern Legitimacy Statement: Sometime before 1630, Richard Willam Silvester got...
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Fiction

Alyssa Hubbard : Fiction: March 2021

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

Amy Fonseca : Flash Fiction : March 2021

Southern legitimacy statement: Appalachian born and raised, I grew up...
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Fiction

Karen Toralba : Fiction : March 2021

My Southern Legitimacy Statement is as follows: I was born...
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Essays

Ren Pike : Creative Non-Fiction : March 2021

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I grew up south of the airport....
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Poetry

Steven Genzano : Poetry : March 2021

Southern Legitimacy Statement: If everyone is south of somewhere then...
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Fiction

edo strannikov : Fiction:

Southern Legitimacy Statement: were I not in fact and in...
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Essays

C. Susan Evans : Memoir: March 2021

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born into the same economic...
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Fiction

Sandra Cimadori : Fiction: March 2021

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I am a southerner by way of...
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Fiction

Gary Standin : Fiction : March 2021

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I am from Virginia, lived in NYC...
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Fiction

Brandy Renee McCann : Fiction : March 2021

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I am from a little place called...
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Poetry

Timothy Gager : Poetry :March 2021

Southern Legitimacy Statement Southern Legitimacy Statement : I went to...
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Blog

The March 2021 Issue

Southern Legitimacy Statement: We repainted our front porch ceiling last...
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Blog

Writing Residency Opportunity In Shaanxi Province, China

A head of Shaanxi Writers Association is developing a residency...
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Fiction

Kenneth Sutton : Fiction : February 2021

Southern Legitimacy Statement: My friend Sam told if I’m tellin...
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Fiction

James Dean Jay Byrd: Fiction : February 2021

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born in the stench of...
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