WHAT: The Flannery O’Connor Childhood Home, a nonprofit dedicated to preserving the legacy of one of the South’s greatest writers, invites you to Flannery O’Connor: Faith, Race, and Disability, a panel discussion focused on faith, race, and disability in Flannery O’Connor’s work and in the modern South. A reception will follow the discussion. Panelists include: […]
Flannery O’Connor Childhood Home to Kick Off Author’s Centennial Year with Panel on Faith, Race, and Disability
January 14, 2025 by Leave a Comment
J. Michael Dew
January 13, 2025 by Leave a Comment
Michael Dew is a Professor of English at Georgia State University – Perimeter College. His books include Gadly Plain (Cladach Publishing 2013) and All the Bad Things (currently out of print). He is the creator of The Professor’s Bayonet, which is a weekly podcast that explores literature and theology with an eye toward social commentary.
Ethel Morgan Smith
December 30, 2024 by Leave a Comment
Ethel Morgan Smith writes creative nonfiction and historical fiction. She has published three books: Path to Grace: Reimagining the Civil Rights Movement. (August 2023) winner of the 2023 Eudora Welty Prize; From Whence Cometh My Help: The African American Community at Hollins College (2000 & 2017); and Reflections of the Other: Being Black in Germany […]
Elizabeth Soule
December 30, 2024 by Leave a Comment
Elizabeth Soule is a writer of young adult fiction living on the Gulf Coast of Florida with her husband and two young daughters. With a B.A. in Theatre Arts and a background teaching art and elementary school, she brings an aspect of the artistic world to all her writing––especially as it relates to introspective teens […]
2024 Book of the Year Finalists & Book Lovers Gift Guide
December 11, 2024 by 2 Comments
Book of the Year to be announced Sunday, December 15. Which one will win? Any of these titles make fine holiday gifts. (Finalists listed alphabetically by title.) Birdhouse Jesus by Terri Chastain Using a combination of charm and horror and finally transcendence, Chastain creates a protagonist who comes to terms with childhood abuse by […]
SLR welcomes Mary Ellen Thompson as Associate Editor
December 9, 2024 by Leave a Comment
We welcome Mary Ellen Thompson to Southern Literary Review’s staff as an Associate Editor. She likes to read and review fiction, historical fiction, biography, Southern fiction, and cozy mysteries, memoir is iffy and just depends on the subject. She doesn’t like violence, crime, or whining. She does like doing author interviews and gaining insight into […]