Apples & Ashes: Literature, Nationalism, and the Confederate States of America (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2012). 277 pgs. Review by Allen Mendenhall Confederate literature and literary culture have not received the critical consideration that they warrant. Not only that, but they have been dismissed as scant and mediocre. Scholars of the South and […]
The Southern Sin Essay Contest
May 14, 2012 by Leave a Comment
THE SOUTHERN SIN ESSAY CONTEST Deadline: July 31, 2012 Creative Nonfiction (CNF) and the Oxford Creative Nonfiction Writers Conference & Workshop are looking for essays that capture the South in all its steamy sinfulness–whether you’re skipping church to watch football, coveting your neighbor’s Real Housewife of Atlanta, or just drinking an unholy amount of sweet […]
Seven Hills Literary Contest
May 8, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Seven Hills Literary Contest Upload Deadline: Aug. 31, 2012 Contest Categories Short Story 2,500 word maximum, any genre. Creative Nonfiction 2,500 word maximum. Submissions in this genre could include (but are not limited to) memoir, food or travel writing, personal essays, new journalism, biography, nonfiction stories, and nature writing. The emphasis in creative nonfiction is on factually true yet […]
Bill Lavender Interviews Moira Crone about her Book “The Not Yet”
April 26, 2012 by Leave a Comment
BILL LAVENDER: What does the book have and have not to do with New Orleans? MOIRA CRONE: When I first started writing the book in the 1990’s, I set it in New Orleans because I live here, and because it began with a dream that was set here—a strange dream of a young man sitting in […]
“Gone,” Edited with Photography by Nell Dickerson
April 25, 2012 by 2 Comments
Review by Allen Mendenhall BelleBooks. 118 pages. I’ve always maintained a spectator’s curiosity in the rituals and practices of photography. I can’t take a good picture, no matter which side of the camera I’m on, but I appreciate the idea of reducing the world to a more manageable form, something I can look at […]
Announcement from David C. Cook, Publisher of Julie Cantrell’s “Into the Free”
February 13, 2012 by Leave a Comment
From February 13-19, pick up a FREE COPY of Into the Free by Julie Cantrell for your Kindle, Nook, or other reading device. This offer is available for ONE WEEK only through most e-book distributors including Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Julie Cantrell is the former editor-in-chief of the Southern Literary Review.