TJ Barnum: Daddy Jim Teaches Me to Shoot (memoir)
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born and raised in Texas. Some people try to say Texas is more Southwest than South. Truth is, we have our own peculiar ways, like every state. My ggg-grandfather was hanged by the Confederates for...
Anne Anthony to lead session at NC Writer’s Network Spring Conference
The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature contributor Anne Anthony will lead the session “How to Start Submitting” at the North Carolina Writers’ Network 2018 Spring Conference. Click here for full details on the NCWN 2018 Spring Conference. Anne Anthony...
Tom Sheehan: Flashing Mirrors at a House Built in 1742, III (poem)
Flashing Mirrors at a House Built in 1742, III I leaned against the largest maple tree, planted hungry years before upon a leech trench, watching my going out of me at play and shining the souls of mirrors back, telling...
Karan Freimark: The Hunt (fiction)
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born and raised in Kentucky, but spent most of my adult life In the south. I’ve come back to Kentucky now–I missed the hills. The Hunt The gray light filtering through the curtains was a...
Benjamin Mangrum: Children with Guns (fiction)
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born in Jackson, Mississippi, and lived in Rankin County, MS, until I lit out for the territories at twenty-one. I found myself in Waco, Texas, for four years, until I returned to the South proper–that...
Maggie Hess: Hoodwinked Vignettes (fiction)
Southern Legitimacy Statement: Maggie Hess is a Southerner from Bristol, TN. Hoodwinked Vignettes Up-street Once there lived three middle aged men, side by side on a street called Rose Street. Every day since retirement, their job was to mow grass that...
Avee Chaudhuri : The King Under the Mountain (fiction)
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I spent some time in Lake Charles, Louisiana. I have made tasso from scratch, or at least been heavily involved in the process, even once arbitrating a disagreement as to whether or not our curing salt ought...
Connie Rosser Riddle: Pull Those Puppies Up! (memoir)
Southern Legitimacy Statement: Growing up in the South, I developed a love for stories. Some of these included the travel accounts of my cousins in the military, and the gossip of girls as we worked alongside the women ‘barning tobacco’...
Karan Freimark: Requiem for a Rat (fiction)
Southern Legitimacy Statement: The first twenty-one years of my life were spent cradled by the hills of eastern Kentucky. Now, after spending about two thirds of the intervening years somewhere in the south, I have returned to my old homeland....
Kelley Timmons: Twenty (memoir)
Southern Legitimacy Statement: My husband, a fellow aspiring writer, and I married in May and live a quit life in a single-wide in the woods. I was born and raised in a small Arkansas community, without a Dollar General or Sonic...
William Crawford: Down Wind With Death: St. George, Utah (memoir)
Southern Legitimacy Statement: William C. Crawford is a writer and photographer based in Winston-Salem, NC. He has lived in North Carolina since 1962. He was a combat photojournalist in Vietnam. That led him into social work where he often became a...
Betty Moffett: Dan (fiction)
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I grew up in North Carolina–in the western red clay hills, the flat tobacco county in the middle of the state, and the sandy beaches of Nags Head. Dan Uncle Charles ran a small dairy farm on the...
Gracjan Kraszewski: The Narrow Path to Perfection (fiction)
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I am an adopted Southerner who lived in Mississippi for five years and have a son born in Mississippi. The attached story is all about the long-standing tradition of exporting all that is best in the South–here 100mph+...
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