AM: Amy, thanks for doing this interview about Red Dirt Press. Congratulations, too, for reaching the six year mark. You focus on publishing poetry and prose that examines the complexities and diversities of the New South. You also have a focus on social justice issues that are global in nature yet connect to the New […]
Adam Van Winkle
February 12, 2019 by Leave a Comment
Adam Van Winkle is the author of the novel, Abraham Anyhow, which was selected by Southern Literary Review as the June 2017 “Read of the Month.” The follow up novel, While They were in the Field, releases in 2019. His prose has appeared in Bull Men’s Fiction, Cheap POP!, Pithead Chapel, Steel Toe Review, Red […]
Managing Editor Allen Mendenhall Publishes “Writers on Writing”
December 26, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Managing editor Allen Mendenhall has published Writers on Writing: Conversations with Allen Mendenhall. The publisher, Red Dirt Press, describes the book as follows: As a lawyer, Allen Mendenhall asks questions. As a writer, he’s interested in the craft. Combine these two and you get this, a collection of writers discussing writing. Writers on Writing: Conversations with Allen […]
Managing Editor Allen Mendenhall Publishes “Of Bees and Boys,” A Collection of Essays
May 23, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Managing editor Allen Mendenhall has published his second book this year. Of Bees and Boys, a collection of essays, was released May 10th. From the publisher, Red Dirt Press: In this collection of essays, literary lawyer Allen Mendenhall examines ideas about place, literature, reading, family, and custom from the vanishing perspective of a traditional Southerner. […]
January Read of the Month: “The Ocean’s Edge,” by William Bernhardt
January 4, 2017 by Leave a Comment
Reviewed by Carl Sennhenn No one perhaps would suspect, surely not expect, the author of acclaimed and prize-winning mystery novels to write and publish poetry. But William Bernhardt, the author of the successful Ben Kincaid series, has done just that with two volumes of poetry, The White Bird and now The Ocean’s Edge. If The […]
Writing Without Fear: Poetic Language in Tim Peeler’s “Knuckle Bear”
September 7, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Essay by Patrick Bizzarro One of the most interesting features of Tim Peeler’s Knuckle Bear is the language spoken by the three characters who enact, through thought processes revealed in the poems they speak, the drama of their social relations. Here is an example of that language and the hierarchy of power it constructs in […]