Where: Monroeville, AL When: February 27 – March 1, 2025 Winners: Cassandra King and Suzanne Hudson! See Monroeville Literary Festival here.
Submission guidelines for Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel Contemporary Appalachian Literature
February 2, 2025 by 5 Comments
Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel Contemporary Appalachian Literature submission guidelines. Their editors are excited about the Volume 28 theme–and hope it inspires your creative interpretations through poetry, short prose, and visual (2D) art. In this PDF, you’ll also find instructions related to book reviews, “new books” notifications, and resolution quality of images.
“Penalties of June” by John Brandon
February 1, 2025 by Leave a Comment
Penalties of June (McSweeney’s 2024) by John Brandon is a well-crafted, invitingly atmospheric tale of a motley group of anti-heroes and a lovely, hard-working young woman in 1998 Florida. These characters cross fortunes and fates as their lives interlace again—and again—in a tale that carries a hint of the Southern Gothic within its absorbing pages. Kirkus […]
“Gothictown” by Emily Carpenter
January 15, 2025 by Leave a Comment
Most times in life when things seem too good to be true, they are. Such is the case in Emily Carpenter’s latest novel, Gothictown (Kensington, 2025). If you liked Shirley Jackson’s short story “The Lottery,” you are bound to enjoy the mysteries hidden behind the innocent façade of Gothictown. Carpenter begins the novel with brief […]
The Professor’s Bayonet Podcast of “Leonor: The Story of a Lost Childhood” by Paula Delgado-Kling
January 15, 2025 by Leave a Comment
Dr. Jason Dew has released a podcast of Paula Delgado-Kling’s Leonor: The Story of a Lost Childhood, which Dew previously reviewed for SLR. Check out his podcast.
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
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: […]