APM: Congratulations on your debut novel, The Last Road Home. What’s this book about? DJ: The book is about discovery. Two kids, Junebug who is a white orphaned farm boy, and Fancy who is the daughter of black sharecroppers, meet and form a bond at the age of eight. They spend their growing-up years discovering […]
Allen Mendenhall Interviews Julia Nunnally Duncan, Author of “A Place That Was Home”
November 10, 2016 by Leave a Comment
AM: Julia, it’s great to have the opportunity to promote a regular contributor to Southern Literary Review. Tell us a little about your new collection of essays, A Place That Was Home. JND: Thank you, Allen. I appreciate your introducing my new book to your readers. A Place That Was Home is my first nonfiction […]
Betsy Randolph
October 18, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Betsy Randolph grew up in Oklahoma where she worked in radio broadcasting before beginning her career in law enforcement in 1990 in her birth state of New Mexico. She holds numerous degrees in Journalism, Organizational Leadership, and Horticulture, and a Master’s of Fine Arts in Creative Writing. She’s the past-President and Vice President of the Logan […]
Ryan Guth
September 22, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Ryan Guth is the author of two full-length mixed-genre collections, Home Truths (Alsop Review Press, 2006) and Body and Soul (Lummox Press, 2015). Individual poems of his have appeared in such journals such as Lummox, Iron Horse, Bryant Literary Review, River City, and Third Coast Review. He studied Creative Writing with poets Andrew Hudgins, Don […]
Walter Bennett
September 13, 2016 by Leave a Comment
Walter Bennett is a former civil rights attorney, judge, and law professor who lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. He is the author of The Lawyer’s Myth: Reviving Ideals in the Legal Profession (University of Chicago Press, 2001) and the novel Leaving Tuscaloosa (Fuze Publishing, 2012). He is a native of Tuscaloosa, Alabama.