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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 / MemoirsWoodside High School

Anastasia Davis :: Change in the Tides ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: In the cold eastern part of Europe...
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Creative Non-Fiction / MemoirsWoodside High School

Carlos Ibarra :: Tragedy ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I grew up in eastern Virginia where...
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Creative Non-Fiction / MemoirsWoodside High School

Tayshawn Campbell :: Unyielding Passion ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: The south is a unique region where...
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Creative Non-Fiction / MemoirsWoodside High School

Amiyah Simms :: Band-tober ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: Being in the south and surrounded by...
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Woodside High School

:: The Dead Mule High School Essay Contest ::

Drum roll please… This was, hands down, the hardest competition...
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Flash Fiction

Nick Wynn :: No Taste for Chicken and Dumplings ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement:I am a Southerner–born, bred, raised, and hopefully...
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Creative Non-Fiction / Memoirs

Andy Betz :: raconter des salades ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born and raised in Missouri...
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Woodside High School

The Dead Mule High School Essay Contest Semi-Finalists

The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature is pleased to...
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Flash Fiction

Con Chapman :: My Right Arm ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was raised in Sedalia, Missouri, site...
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Flash Fiction

Becky Meadows :: Boodoo vs. The Pantyhose ::

Shut hern Legitimacy Statement:I am a farm girl who still...
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Creative Non-Fiction / Memoirs

David VanDevelder :: Her Heroic Final Role in the Fading Persona of So and So ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: My Papaw came up in the Great...
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Creative Non-Fiction / Memoirs

Sarah Das Gupta :: A Green and Pleasant Land ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: In the UK I’m known as a...
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Creative Non-Fiction / Memoirs

Michele Hromada :: River Street ::

I lived most of my life in NY, but for...
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Flash Fiction

Lou Storey :: The Fit Test ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: An old friend from college living up...
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Creative Non-Fiction / Memoirs

Deborah Robinson :: Newly Redecorated Villa ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement:As the annual rush to Florida begins each...
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Fiction

Scott Beard :: Rising Fog ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I wish all these people from California...
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