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 amazing poet herself, she’s a compassionate and caring editor. As for Phoebe Kate and myself, we just love reading through all these stories.

The first issue will contain an excerpt from the novel Angel’s Rest written by prime mule writer Charles Davis. We’d link to Mr. Davis’ previous writing columns on the Dead Mule but of course, they were zapped in the hack which happened years ago. More on Angel’s Rest in a few days.

Ya’ll should really enjoy the new mule. We can’t wait to start pumping in some first-rate fiction. The poetry chapbooks are sublime. Real poetic goodness brought to you by the folks here at the best place to visit online for southern literature.

But that doesn’t mean we’re through looking for writing… goodness no! We want more, we just can’t get enough of it. Remember though, check the submission’s page for rules (ha! as if) but mostly look there for information about writing your southern legitimacy statement. Without our southern statements we’d be just another online southern literary journal.

Yeehaw. 2007 is gonna’ be something.