Hank Morgan: Hunt of the Monarch (Fiction)
Southern Legitimacy Statement: ‘I write stories found between the crevices of bark on the Treaty Oak, and other natural monoliths populating the Canaan of the South’ Hunt of the Monarch Morning had...
View ArticleJames Vachowski: The Wal-Mart Diaries (Fiction)
Southern Legitimacy Statement: Carpetbagger by birth, South Carolinian by the grace of marriage. White-collar professional with lofty career aspirations of the traveling carnival circuit, ideally a...
View ArticleJuan Cruz: A Morning in Soda City
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born in Bogotá, Colombia. I have been living in Columbia, South Carolina, since 2010. I currently work at the University of South Carolina, where I am completing a...
View ArticleZachary Desormeaux Tanner: The Madonna and Child (fiction)
Southern Legitimacy Statement: On Mom’s side, I come from LeBoeufs, Thibodauxs, and Chauvins. Dad is a second-generation Tanner, after my great-grandfather, an adulterous Dixieland musician who...
View ArticleCaitlin Butler: PawPaw (memoir)
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born and raised in Georgia, where I was baptized by a Brother Buddy about the same age as I fell in love with Billy Ray Cyrus. I still know the
View ArticleAlyson Wild: Her and the Hims
Southern Legitimacy Statement: As a child, I lived for the summers spent at my Grandfathers’ in South Carolina. Yeah, we were tourists in Myrtle Beach, but something salty just gets in your blood...
View ArticleGracjan 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...
View ArticleBetty 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
View ArticleKaran 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...
View ArticleAvee 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...
View ArticleMaggie 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...
View ArticleBenjamin 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
View ArticleKaran 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
View ArticleAnne 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...
View ArticleHelen Losse: Snippets of Holiness (A Chapbook)
Snippets of Holiness A Chapbook of Collected and New Poems by Helen Losse *** I. Poems from Gathering the Broken Pieces (FootHills Publishing, Kanona, NY, 2004) Voices I want to eat ambrosia, dine with...
View ArticleAnne Anthony: Tulip Tree (short fiction)
Southern Legitimacy Statement: Anne Anthony lives in North Carolina though when she engages you in conversation it’s clear she was born above the Mason-Dixon Line. Still, if she’s reading you her...
View ArticlePaul Castonguay: And All of Us, Clay (fiction)
Southern Legitimacy Statement: My parent’s left New England for a small town in Virginia’s New River Valley four years before I was born. I started kindergarten with the same 95 people I would graduate...
View ArticleJesse Miller: Dancing (fiction)
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I grew in the deepest part of south Georgia where high school was integrated but homecoming courts and year book superlatives were not. This was a quiet, pleasant town...
View ArticleEpiphany Ferrell: About the Money (fiction)
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I live in Southern Illinois. Yes I know Illinois is a Yankee state. Hear me out. First off, the regional newspaper capitalizes the S in Southern Illinois because we are...
View ArticleScott Hutchison : Three Poems (poetry)
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born in Richmond, Virginia and raised on a thoroughbred race horse farm in nearby Ashland. My upbringing pulses in my veins: I have been blessed by both earth and...
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