Julia Nunnally Duncan’s latest collection of essays, All We Have Loved (Finishing Line Press 2023) tells stories of her childhood, growing up the daughter of textile workers in the mountains of western North Carolina, as well as the childhoods of her loved ones. In these short vignettes, Duncan describes holidays in her rural neighborhood in […]
“Seven Islands of the Ocmulgee: River Stories” by Gordon Johnston
December 20, 2023 by Leave a Comment
In Seven Islands of the Ocmulgee: River Stories, Gordon Johnston has created a powerful collection that reflects the challenges, complexities, and desires of twenty-first-century life in the changing American South. Gordon Johnston, a Professor of Creative Writing at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia, knows this landscape well. Johnston, a Georgia native, was previously artist-in-residence at […]