Tamatha Cain’s latest novel, Only Oona, focuses on the life of Oona Chaplin. The daughter of famous playwright Eugene O’Neill, Oona marries famed silent film star Charlie Chaplin. The novel paints a vivid portrait of a warm and intelligent woman who rubbed shoulders with many of the most prominent creative people of her times, such […]
Cat Pleska
May 1, 2023 by Leave a Comment
Cat Pleska, a native West Virginian, is an award-winning author, educator, and storyteller. Her memoir, Riding on Comets was published by West Virginia University Press. Cat edited four anthologies and her stories and essays have appeared in The Appalachian Heritage Anthologies, Still: The Journal, Heartwood Magazine, Change 7 Magazine, and many others. She teaches in […]
“Alight: Flights of Prose” by Rachael Peckham
May 1, 2023 by Leave a Comment
Reviewed by Cat Pleska Rachael Peckham’s memoir in essays circles readers around the tragedy that befell her family. Her maternal grandfather and two uncles perished in a plane crash not far from their Clearwater, Michigan, farm in 1976. Alight: Flights of Prose (Uncollected Press, 2022) examines the long-term effects of this loss. On a short […]
Southern Literary Review wins recognition
April 27, 2023 by 2 Comments
Southern Literary Review has been selected by Feedspot as one of the Top 15 Southern Fiction Blogs on the web.
“Lick the Sherbet Sky: Reflections of a Writer’s Residency” by Robert Gwaltney
April 18, 2023 by 11 Comments
“You are overweight,” Tonya, the Delta Airlines desk attendant tells me. “It’ll be an additional two hundred dollars.” Judgement seeps from Tonya’s guinea hen eyes, slips from the corners of her mouth in spittle. How dare you, I think to myself, looking down at Miss Audrey Hepburn, my suitcase. (I call my suitcase Miss Audrey […]