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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.
Creative Non-Fiction / Memoirs

Katheryn Krotzer Laborde :: Off Balance ::

SLS: My mother was from Richmond, though I think she...
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Poetry

Kevin Brown :: Three Poems ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I currently live in Nashville (questionable as...
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Fiction

Edward Burke :: Texas Experiment in Mortuary Science ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I’ve been south of south for so...
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Fiction

Alissa C. Miles :: Bone Edge ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I grew up in South Carolina wishing...
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Fiction

Cecil Geary :: The Dead Mule ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I grew up in Kentucky, Southern Indiana...
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Poetry

Grey Brown :: Black Irish, The Second Coming, My Oldest Sister Gets Married ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born in Rocky Mount, NC,...
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Flash Fiction

Juan Cruz :: A Morning in Bogotá ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born in Bogotá, Colombia. I...
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Creative Non-Fiction / Memoirs

Kay Jenkins :: Marie Margan ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: Not a bone in my body is...
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Flash Fiction

Amita Basu :: Escape Plan ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: Here in South India, filter coffee is...
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Flash Fiction

John Frame :: A Real Job ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I spent a year living in Charlotte,...
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Creative Non-Fiction / Memoirs

Monica Viera :: Fighting the Death Instinct ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: Monica Viera lived in the 7th ward...
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Creative Non-Fiction / Memoirs

Janie Borisov :: The Islands of Weed and Mushrooms ::

*Hello hello! So I live in Australia, south of just...
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Fiction

Eddie Black :: Tailgates and Tomatoes ::

I come from a place where you save leftover fat...
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Blog

Hold on, I’m coming…

Seriously, the February issue will happen. Almost there, a few...
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Flash Fiction

Chaz Lilly :: Holding Water ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: Born in Florida, raised in Georgia and...
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Flash Fiction

Anne Anthony :: The Bingo Ladies ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement Anne Anthony lives in North Carolina though...
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