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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

Pam Watts: Poetry: June 2021

Southern Legitimacy Statement: My family came here the year before...
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Essays

Jessica Sabo: Memoir: June 2021

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I am a southern transplant, having lived...
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Fiction

Lynn D. Smith: Fiction: June 2021

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born in Augusta Georgia, in...
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Poetry

Will Justice Drake: Poetry: June 2021

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I grew up in north Alabama, where...
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Fiction

Ronnie Sirmans: Fiction: May 2021

Southern Legitimacy Statement: Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born and...
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Fiction

Thomas Elson: Flash Fiction: May 2021

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I see a funeral, a widow, her...
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Essays

Claire Fullerton: Essay: May 2021

Southern Legitimacy Statement: There’s nothing that steeps a Southerner in...
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Fiction

John Mason: Flash Fiction: May 2021

Southern Legitimacy Statement: …[A]nd to further cement my southern roots,...
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Essays

Karen Curran : Memoir: May 2021

Southern Legitimacy Statement: My parents grew up West Virginia hillbillies,...
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