Hey, ya’ll. I forgot to load the new Coverpage for the May 2008 Mule. Apologies all around, especially to dear Ann who worked so hard on the Life on Black Mountain story collection.
Take a gander at her blog when you get a moment, would you? click here.
It was pure bliss working on the photos for […]
The halls are buzzing—here at the Dead Mule School of Southern Literature. So much excitement about Poetry. So much excitement about Ann Hite. So much anticipation. Even rumors, once in a while, concerning the upcoming Southern-style Garden Party honoring Ruth at which time Poetry Editor, Helen Losse, will meet Fiction Editor, […]
“The Last Stopping Off Place is the final story in Nellie’s life and is told from quirky Bea Weehunt’s—the readers will remember her from Mr. Snake Gets Religion—point of view. When I wrote this story I thought it was over. I thought, okay that’s the end of Black Mountain. Now I move on somehow.”
–Ann Hite
Postcards and spider webs
For anyone near Raleigh — check out the Zany Umbrella Circus coming to the Raleigh Little Theater May 9-11.
Charlotte, NC – Registration is now open for the 2008 North Carolina Writers’ Network Spring Conference, which takes place Saturday, April 26, from 8 a.m. until 5:45 p.m. in the Elliott University Center at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
The annual event draws hundreds of writers for intensive […]
Please feel free to forward this information to your colleagues and students.
We look forward to meeting you!
Ann Hite
Southern Statement
I’m a good old girl, who knows how to act like a good southern lady, but don’t fool yourself my mama taught me how to get my way.
Submissions are now being taken for the 1st Annual Micro Award, an award for previously published fiction not over 1000 words in length. Authors and editors may each submit one story published in 2007. The submission deadline this year is September 30. Submissions may be mailed to Micro Award, POB 9110, Chico CA, 95927-9110. Rules […]
April is National Poetry Month. To celebrate the Dead Mule is calling its April Issue “Poems On the Odds.” A new poet will be published each odd day of the month. That’s fifteen poets.
The Dead Mule will begin its April Celebration with the student poets of Scott Owens, the 2008 […]
For the writers who have books available through Amazon, send us a link for the Southern Bookstore.
For the writers who have published but their work is not available on Amazon, send links and we will build a page for the Mule to include them. Chapbooks, anthologies…
Send your information this way:
to submit.mule at gmail dot com
subject: […]
Okay, new guidelines. Submission requirements being tweaked daily at our convenience. We’re brain-storming about the How’s and Why’s but are leaning toward publication upon acceptance — encouraging Mule RSS feeds to our fans.
Yup. You heard me. It’s a good thing, eh?
Meanwhile, back at the Dead Mule School we hang Holly and Ivy in the hallowed […]
The Dead Mule prides itself in being family. You know, writers who support each other. Here are some comments from recent Mule poets that I found on the web. This is not an attempt to find all comments nor an attempt to imply that others have not left comments elsewhere nor even […]
The rest of the poems will be online sans the photos just after noon tomorrow. The pictures will be up later.
Sometimes we’re “dazed and confused.” Sometimes family comes to town, sometimes our luck runs out, or we’re just busy. . . .
okay, maybe not hot…
Nov. 15th we’ll start posting some poetry, a couple of poets a day (with a little luck) and ya’ll will love Bill’s photographs.
Fiction and essays loaded next!
New work from eight poets, Dale Wisely, Jilly Dybka, Ross White, Leslie Joseph, Jessie Carty, Evie Shockley, Tim Peeler and Carter Monroe, will be published on or about November 20. I am completing an interview with Evie Shockley that will be online the same day. Photographs by Bill Losse will be published at […]
After careful deliberation, The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature has nominated the following writers and poets for Best of the Web 2007. Check out their fine work.
Fiction:
“Clamming in January” by John McCaffrey
“Death’s Janitor” by Andrew Killmeier
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Poetry:
“Among the Missing” by Pris Campbell (scroll down)
“Fireflies” by Jenni Russell (scroll down)
“Ghost Child” by Jayne Pupek (scroll down)
“Lunch” […]
This is my first post to the Mule, although I’ve been on a the staff for a while now—first as Poetry Co-Editor and then last year taking over as Poetry Editor. Working with Valerie MacEwan has been great fun. I’m learning so much about editing. But I still have a lot to […]
Dearest of all Mules, our wonderful poets, please give me a moment of your time to discuss the backend of the Mule. We use WordPress as our foundation, our backend, for publishing the Dead Mule. For years and years, Robert MacEwan (yup, my husband) would code a Mule template especially for me and I’d use […]
The vintage Victorian advertising cards come to us from our beloved Assistant Editor Phoebe Kate Foster. Her grandfather, it seems, lived in Canada as a youth and collected these cards. I will do some research on the history of such advertising and post it in August. The advertisements have a drawing or illustration on the […]
We’re reading and reading — if you submitted before June 7th — and will send out emails regarding your writing around July 5th.
If you submit after June 8th — you’re in the second batch of submissions and you will receive an email after July 10th.
The Summer Issue is scheduled to go live on July 15th.
But… […]
Am I southern because I was born and raised in Wilton and Montevallo, Alabama? Am I southern even though I do not reside anywhere, as they like to say in the south, but am incarcerated on Alabama’s death row at Holman prison?
Does being sent out as a child by my sisters and other pregnant women in my neighborhood in search of a certain quality of dirt and then to the store to buy them boxes of starch to be enjoyed like candy on the porch in the evening qualify me? And what about my also acquiring a taste for the stuff? Almost as delicious as honeysuckle!
I think I know that I am southern when I remember growing up in a small town and hearing some folks referred to as negras. I often wondered who they could be talking about. It could not be me, after all I knew I was black. Ah well….you tell me!
Freecycle is wonderful and Doug Marlette is talented… read all about it.
For access to archives for this issue, use “archives” link at bottom of each page. For 1998-2005, see the page linked to this excerpt. 2007 archives will eventually include all the Mules … and don’t forget to read the rest of the MuleBlog entries.
Thanks be to Mule writers and a hint of what I’m about to publish on the Dead Mule this morning.
I’m loading mule-writers all day but there’s a kink in the project. What? How can anything but find joy in my entering uniqueness? It’s Ruth Florence Chapman Heinold. My mom. She’s 90 years old today and we’re going to take a ride into the hinterlands to Carolyn Sleeper’s Slatestone Studio to visit both the potter […]
Old about page, new one coming eventually on account of none of this has really changed so why re-write it, eh? Except to say:
Ruth Florence Chapman Heinold is ninety years old today, April 13th, 2007.
ABOUT
The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature is found on the web at: www.deadmule.comFounded in 1995 [Dead Mule Faculty and Alumni […]
The writing currently available on the Dead Mule is from our archives. Ten years of creative excellence. Peruse it, revel in it… can’t ya’ll just eat it up?
New Mule coming live on April 13th around midnight. Why don’t ya’ll plan a party around it, like when the latest Harry Potter book comes out… stand in […]
Ahhhh, I love the smell of mule dung in the morning. Steam rising off the…
yuck.
Update on the Spring 2007 issue of the Dead Mule.
Suspected launch date is set for April 13th. Why the 13th? Not because it’s Friday. Not because it’s a one followed by a three.
Because…
It is Ruth Heinold’s 90th birthday. A New Mule […]
What can we say? It has been 11 years since the Dead Mule was first published.
This Spring 2007 issue begins what will become, in ten years, our Second Edition.
The Technical History of the Dead Mule School of Southern Literature
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Each decade brings change. How many “years” is an Internet year? The year becomes exponentially smaller as […]
Once again, writers who had work accepted for the 2006 Mule and it was not published should email the submit.mule@gmail.com and let us know if you would still like to be included in an issue of this year’s Mule.
thanks,
valerie
The superior quality of the fiction and poetry submissions we’re receiving come as no big surprise. Boy, that’s a cumbersome sentence. The First Issue of the Second Edition of the Dead Mule School of Southern Literature will be
mule-tacular, barn-a-liscious, ass-tounding. Helen Losse is in charge of the poetry section and, aside from being an […]
We have an excellent chapbook online now. What a marvelous work to begin our Second Edition of the Dead Mule School of Southern Literature… Helen and I would like to present Darrell B. Grayson’s work: Holman’s House.