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The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature
No good [Southern] writing is complete without a dead mule. Established 1996.
The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature
No good [Southern] writing is complete without a dead mule. Established 1996.
Poetry

Kalyn Livernois: Poetry: Oct 2021

Southern Legitimacy Statement: When I was 15, I gave away...
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Poetry

Traci Elliott: Poetry: Oct 2021

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I come from Charlotte. When I was...
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Essays

Christina Rauh Fishburne: Creative Non-Fiction: Oct 2021

Southern Legitimacy Statement: My family yanked me from Virginia and...
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Essays

James Ryer: Essay: Oct 2021

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born in the South, raised...
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Fiction

M.S. Gardner: Flash Fiction: Oct 2021

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I’ve lived South of the Mason-Dixon Line...
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Essays

Terry Barr: Essay: Oct 2021

Southern Legitimacy Statement As a native southerner and recovering Alabamian,...
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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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