David VanDevelder : Buster’s Last Load : Memoir : April 2019
Southern Legitimacy Statement: We were a prototypical southern nuclear family. My Papaw came up in…
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The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature
"No good Southern fiction is complete without a dead mule." –Valerie MacEwan, 1996
Category: Essays / Memoirs
Tom Sheehan : Decision Borne by April Water : Memoir : April 2019
My Southern Legitimacy statement says I have been printed in North Carolina, baby-sat there, and…
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Cortney Cameron: Filly : Memoir : March 2019
Southern Legitimacy Statement: Since my last Dead Mule submission, I’ve only grown more southern, moving…
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Julie Whitehead: Above My Raising :: essay March 2019
Southern Legitimacy Statement: Born in the hill country of northeast Mississippi, educated at Mississippi State…
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Barbara McLay: Kneadful Things (February 2019)
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born and raised in Florida and am still living here, two…
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Chen Du: Catch the Train (February 2019)
Southern Legitimacy Statement: Yes, I lived so close to where you do. I studied at…
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Vivian Wagner: Appalachian Edge (February 2019)
Here’s my Southern Legitimacy Statement: I live in southeastern Ohio. That counts, doesn’t it? After…
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Allison Chestnut: Queen For a Day (memoir) Dec. 2018
Southern Literacy statement: I am a spinster with a Bible and a gun who grew…
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Geoff Balme : Quadrophenia (memoir) Dec. 2018
I’ve published with you a couple of times, but I don’t mind updating my SOUTHERN…
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Marijean Oldham : Airline Lost and Found (memoir) Dec. 2018
My Southern Legitimacy is in evidence when I tell you that yesterday I wore a…
Read MoreLynda Black: Love Lesson #6 – Room At The Inn (essay/memoir) Nov. 2018
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I grew up in North Carolina, within six miles of the land where…
Read MoreBrandon Burris: Next Door (essay) Nov. 2018
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I’ve lived in Oklahoma almost my whole life. People who know nothing sometimes…
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"No good Southern fiction is complete without a dead mule." –Valerie MacEwan, 1996