The captivating tales in Kim Bradley’s award-winning Spillway (Stephen F. Austin State University Press 2022) are stunning, well-crafted pieces that display the power of short stories at their finest. Bradley writes with compassion and insight about a class of people no doubt considered outcasts, and her empathy and understanding of her characters form the back-bone […]
Stephanie Barko
November 13, 2023 by Leave a Comment
Stephanie Barko is a literary publicist specializing in pre-pub adult historical novels and nonfiction.
November Read of the Month: “The Curious Lives of Nonprofit Martyrs: Stories” by George Singleton
November 1, 2023 by 1 Comment
There are unwritten rules one must at least consider when attempting to mention an author’s place among the masters of the Southern literary canon. One of those is to include no less than two quotes from William Faulkner. So, let us begin. “A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, […]
“Indigo Field” by Marjorie Hudson
October 31, 2023 by Leave a Comment
Indigo Field (Regal House, 2023) by Marjorie Hudson contains many strong elements, rather than one. She pulls off this feat with a full panoply of writing skills on display. First, Hudson creates a compelling story with three fully developed sets of racially diverse characters whose lives intersect in both harmony and conflict. The most important […]
Donna Meredith interviews Mimi Herman, author of “The Kudzu Queen”
October 31, 2023 by Leave a Comment
DM: Mimi, I fell in love with your coming-of-age novel, The Kudzu Queen. Writing any book is a big undertaking that takes many months if not years. How long did you work on this book? MH: I’ve recently discovered something that surprised me. For a long time, I was convinced that I’d spent sixteen years […]
“Heart’s Core” by Joann Gardner
October 30, 2023 by Leave a Comment
Prize-winning poet Joann Gardner, PhD, dives deep into Florida’s underground rivers and gathers gems and experiences too complex for simple surface tellings in Heart’s Core (Finishing Line Press 2023). This new poetry book is structured as a journey. Gardner’s book explores concepts of belonging and identity in her far-flung European and U.S. North-South immersions as […]