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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

Pamela Glazier : Flash Fiction : July 2020

Southern Legitimacy Statement: Whelp, I’ve definitely thought about the South...
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Fiction

Ben Gilbert: The Other Side of Midnight : Flash Fiction : July 2020

*Southern Legitimacy Statement: To you folks, I’m not sure I’m...
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Fiction

Marco Etheridge : Fiction: July 2020

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

D.S. Davis: Creative Non-Fiction: June 2020

Southern Legitimacy Statement: Growing up in South Jersey with West...
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Fiction

Tim Royan: Fiction: June 2020

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I spent half of my childhood living...
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Fiction

Dale Hensarling: Fiction: June 2020

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I am a native Mississippian, born in...
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Fiction

William Auten: Fiction: June 2020

Southern Legitimacy Statement: My Southern Legitimacy Statement: I grew up...
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Essays

Kimberly Diaz: Creative Non-Fiction : June 2020

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I am a Southerner though for sure....
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Fiction

Karen Schauber : Fiction : June 2020

Southern Legitimacy Statement: “No good Southern fiction is complete without...
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Poetry

Solomon Foster: Poetry : June 2020

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I live in the very south of...
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Essays

McKenna Neville : Memoir : June 2020

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I go to school in Alabama, and...
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Fiction

Randall Ivey: Fiction : June 2020

Southern Legitimacy Statement: Southern since ’63 with no plans to...
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Poetry

Lindsay Parnell: Poetry : June 2020

Southern Legitimacy Statement: Born at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina...
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Blog

June issue here. (Valerie MacEwan)

*Interesting to note how many “southern online literary journals” have...
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Interviews / Books / Music

Claire Fullerton: Little Tea, a novel

I keep thinking about how this unique, lovely story brings the...
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Blog

The May 2020 Issue

We’ve got fiction, essays, poetry, creative non-fiction. Wow, the Mule’s...
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