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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.
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Rosemarie Dombrowski : Memoirs : August 2019

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I live in South Scottsdale, which is...
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Blog

August is a huge month for the Mule!

We’re publishing 20 essays, memoirs, short stories, poetry collections …...
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Essays

Jennifer Richardson : Cultural Debts : Essays/Memoirs : July 2019

My Southern Legitimacy Statement: I grew up in southwest Florida...
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Fiction

Steven Levi: How Nags Head Lost its Apostrophe : Fiction : July 2019

Southern Legitimacy Statement: This is a fake news story of...
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Fiction

Timothy Rodriguez: Deputy Carson Tinnin, summer of 1983 : Fiction : July 2019

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I read that you folks originated in...
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Essays

Leslie Kain : Grampa : Memoirs : July 2019

Southern Legitimacy Statement: My earliest memories were of living in...
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Fiction

Amy Smith Linton: A Bedtime Story: Fiction : July 2019

Southern Legitimacy Statement: My Grampa Navy was from Copper Hill,...
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Essays

Chris Espenshade: Green Bagel, No Snatch : Memoir : July 2019

Southern Legitimacy Statement: As to Southern Legitimacy, in my day...
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Essays

Joan Brooks Baker : …where you ever gonna belong, chile? : Memoir : July 2019

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I grew up in New York with...
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Poetry

Barry Peters: Two Poems : Poetry : July 2019

Southern Legitimacy Statement: All you had to say was, “we...
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Fiction

K C Tora: The Unexpected Gift : Flash Fiction : July 2019

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I am from the deep south of...
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Fiction

Randall Ivey: Mr. Aldon : Flash Fiction : July 2019

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

Danny Lee Ingram : Grammar Nudge #5 and #6

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born in Rome, GA, and...
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Fiction

Megan Hoffman : Good Fences : fiction : June 2019

Southern Legitimacy Statement: Having recently purchased an old farmhouse in...
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Essays

Deb Jellett : Jack Normand: Grand Man : Essay : June 2019

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

Amanda Pugh : Take Me Back : Memoir : June 2019

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I am as Southern as grits, biscuits,...
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