Click to Buy Reviewed by Rhett DeVane A masterful blend of history and fiction, The Glass Madonna, by Donna Meredith, provides a window into one woman’s hard-scrabble journey from abuse and neglect to independence and self-reliance. Sarah Stevens comes of age during the ’70s: a time of liberation and sexual freedom for women. But old […]
Archives for February 2011
Fastor Pastor by Sharyn McCrumb and Adam Edwards
February 15, 2011 by 1 Comment
Reviewed by Paul H. Yarbrough Click to Buy It’s difficult to corral a book review around a few hundred words when you have enjoyed almost every last multiple-thousands of them; nevertheless, in a nutshell, the novel, Faster Pastor, by Sharyn McCrumb and Adam Edwards is a wonderful story. McCrumb has put together a superb […]
Country Roads Magazine Short Story Contest
February 12, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Country Roads magazine’s tenth annual Regional Writings issue will be published in June 2011, featuring the winners of their annual Short Story Contest and Readers’ Choice Award. Writers of Louisiana and Mississippi are now invited to submit works of fiction or haiku for a chance at publication. Submission deadline is Tuesday, March 15. A panel […]
Danielle Sellers
February 10, 2011 by 1 Comment
SLR welcomes contributor Danielle Sellers. Danielle is originally from Key West, FL. She has an MA from The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University and an MFA from the University of Mississippi where she held the Grisham Poetry Fellowship. Her poems have appeared in River Styx, Subtropics, Smartish Pace, The Cimarron Review, Poet Lore, Cold […]
Rhett DeVane
February 9, 2011 by Leave a Comment
SLR welcomes contributor Rhett DeVane, published fiction author with four novels to date: The Madhatter’s Guide to Chocolate, Up the Devil’s Belly, Evenings on Dark Island (with Larry Rock), and Accidental Ambition (with Robert W. McKnight). Her upcoming novel, Mama’s Comfort Food, is slated for release in the spring of 2011.
Paul H. Yarbrough
February 8, 2011 by Leave a Comment
SLR welcomes contributor, Paul Yarbrough, whose debut novel, Mississippi Cotton, is set to hit shelves in March, 2011.