Mississippi native and resident of New Orleans, Vicki Salloum has magically woven her Lebanese Catholic family’s colorful roots and traditions into a wonderful piece of literary fiction in her novel The Gathering Place (Silent Clamor Press 2025). Ordered by the Mother of God to start a business—an actual gathering place in post-Katrina New Orleans where […]
“Half-Truths” by Carol Baldwin
September 15, 2025 by 1 Comment
Introduction: Carol Baldwin spent eighteen years researching and writing her latest book, Half-Truths (Monarch Educational Services 2025). I can’t even imagine. I spent about six years on my first novel, and that felt like an eternity. But Baldwin seems to love research, an important quality for someone taking on a historical fiction novel set at […]
Susan Cushman
September 15, 2025 by Leave a Comment
Susan Cushman has nine published books—two novels, (Cherry Bomb and John and Mary Margaret,) one short story collection, two memoirs, and four anthologies for which she served as editor. A native of Jackson, Mississippi, she has lived in Memphis, Tennessee, since 1988. Susan has been married for 54 years and has three adopted adult children, […]
Dawn Major interviews Editor and Contributors of All night, All Day Anthology
December 4, 2023 by Leave a Comment
Introduction: Since becoming one of the Associate Editors at Southern Literary Review, Dawn Major has come to know several of the authors, poets, and artists from the cast of this exquisite anthology, All Night, All Day: life, death & angels. Clearly, each and every one of the talented women writers who contributed understood the value […]