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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

Robert Gwaltney: Ash : Fiction : December 2019

Southern Legitimacy Statement: A good piece back, I was Drum...
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Blog

William Walsh : Fly fishing in Times Square : New Book by Dead Mule Writer

William Walsh Fly Fishing in Times Square The seventh book...
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Fiction

Steve Meador: Calls From The Southern Forest : Fiction : November 2019

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I still say y’all, ain’t and I...
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Poetry

Travis Stephens : Poetry : November 2019

My Southern Legitimacy is that I used to work towboats...
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Fiction

Diana Cejas : The Crunchy Kind : Flash Fiction : November 2019

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I grew up on a tobacco farm...
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Fiction

Christina Johanningmeier : Blondie : Fiction : November 2019

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I grew up watching the BC Powder...
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Fiction

Andrea Rinard : Bouquets : Fiction : November 2019

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I’m tired of apologizing for being a...
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Poetry

Richard Weaver : Three Southern Last Word poems : Poetry : November 2019

Southern Legitimacy Statement: The folks below were born in Alabama,...
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Fiction

James Ryer: Girl On The Bridge : Fiction : November 2019

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born and raised in the...
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Poetry

Robert Funderburk : Three Poems : Poetry : October 2019

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born by coal oil lamplight...
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Essays

PB Johnson : Dirt Clods : Memoir : October 2019

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born in Knoxville, TN. and...
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Poetry

Chen Du : Pilgrimage – A Chapbook : Poetry : October 2019

Acknowledgments This chapbook is dedicated to self. The first 33...
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Fiction

Rodney Barfield : Granny’s Rapture : Fiction : October 2019

Southern Legitimacy Statement: An image of a worn Meerschaum clinched...
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Essays

John Stevens : The Bunker : Memoir : October 2019

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born in Stone Mountain, Georgia...
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Essays

Roger Howell : My Mother Was My Date to Blood Feast : Memoir : October 2019

Southern Legitimacy Statement: My family migrated from the red clay...
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Fiction

Marlene DeVere: Pinning for Love : Flash Fiction : October 2019

Southern Legitimacy Statement: It’s true I was born and raised...
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