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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

Chris Espenshade : The Course of a Season (essay) Dec. 2018

Southern Legitimacy Statement: Relative to this piece, I have run throughout...
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Fiction

Donna Walker-Nixon : Straw Man (fiction) Dec. 2018

Southern Legitimacy Statement:  When I was ten, eleven, twelve years...
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Laurie Brown-Pressly : Jo’s Funeral (fiction) Dec. 2018

Southern Legitimacy Statement: My given name is Laura Ruth, and...
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Monica Bellon-Harn : Piggly Wiggly (fiction) Dec. 2018

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I spent the first seven years of my...
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Essays

Allison Chestnut: Queen For a Day (memoir) Dec. 2018

Southern Literacy statement: I am a spinster with a Bible...
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Essays

Geoff Balme : Quadrophenia (memoir) Dec. 2018

I’ve published with you a couple of times, but I...
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Essays

Marijean Oldham : Airline Lost and Found (memoir) Dec. 2018

My Southern Legitimacy is in evidence when I tell you...
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Poetry

Travis Stephens: Two Poems Dec. 2018

“12th of February, waiting on spring” February night the color...
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Poetry

Robert Beveridge : Three Poems Dec. 2018

The Southern legitimacy statement: I was raised by jackalopes. Among...
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Fiction

Con Chapman: Hard Times (fiction) Nov. 2018

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born in Missouri, a border...
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Essays

Lynda Black: Love Lesson #6 – Room At The Inn (essay/memoir) Nov. 2018

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I grew up in North Carolina, within six...
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Fiction

Charles S. Stover: The Slop Detail (micro-fiction) Nov. 2018

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born in West Virginia and grew...
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Fiction

Sean Lyon: Momma’s Letter to Inmate (Fiction) Nov. 2018

Southern Legitimacy Statement: The house I lived in as a...
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Essays

Brandon Burris: Next Door (essay) Nov. 2018

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I’ve lived in Oklahoma almost my whole life....
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Essays

Philip Boddy, Jr.: Ecumenical Challenges (Memoir) Nov. 2018

Southern Legitimacy Statement: Born in Chicago with maternal grandparents, who went...
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Fiction

J. Edwards: Royal Blood (fiction) Nov. 2018

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I am certified in using a picket fence,...
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