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Thrilled to have four poems in the latest issue of @salvationsouth.com. Check out the cover article on Willie Edward Taylor Carver, Jr., and poems by Samantha Renee Ratcliffe. Check it out: www.salvationsouth.com

At 18, in Damascus, Karim Shamsi-Basha watched "To Kill a Mockingbird" and crossed an ocean to the America he saw in it. Mary Badham, who played Scout, and Cecilia Peck, Gregory's daughter because friends on the movie set as children. Their new new play will soon premiere in Birmingham.

Worry about your own damned yard. We loved publishing this one.

She helped renew the Voting Rights Act in 1982, sat at Fannie Lou Hamer’s kitchen table in Ruleville, and became the first black woman hired onto the tenure track at the University of Mississippi law school. At 77, she has chosen her ground, and it is the same ground.

PINCH ME! I’m up on @salvationsouth.com alongside southern royalty today. Thank you SO MUCH to the amazing @chuckreece.bsky.social who is ALWAYS working hard to lift up voices and put excellent literature front and center. @kentuckypress.bsky.social

good news--I've got two new poems up today at @salvationsouth.com. Thanks to poetry editor Andy Fogle! www.salvationsouth.com/marianne-wor...

What is the song of the South in 2026? We're pretty sure several of them are on this guy's new album. Read the conversation our editor, @chuckreece.bsky.social, had with @nathanevansfox.bsky.social. Fave lyric: "When the lord comes back, the rich get scared." www.salvationsouth.com/nathan-evans...

This is a Southern thing: how we feel when the place that raised us disappears. This month’s @salvationsouth.com Deluxe podcast with @tracytherealone.bsky.social and poet Annie Woodford. I’m awful proud of these women (and of this episode).

Salvation South @salvationsouth.com ⭐ is accepting submissions through Duosuma. #WritingCommunity

Read “Echoes of Grace, Threats of Erasure,” Kevin’s exclusive essay for us about how writing the book changed him.

“Mother Emanuel” is a book that will stand for the ages, not only as the definitive account of a massacre drawn by hatred and racism, but also as a history of the Black church in America….

Congratulations to our contributor Kevin Sack, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction.

Congrats to @salvationsouth.com contributor James McWilliams—a Pulitzer Prize’Finalist www.nytimes.com/shared/v1/cl...

We agree.

The Salvation South team believes this is one of the finest short stories we've seen from a young writer in months. Herbert Girtley Jr. is remarkable.

Shawn Pitts @salvationsouth.com The Bones of Pauline Pusser (cc @keithherrell.bsky.social) www.salvationsouth.com/buford-pusse...

My new poem appears in @salvationsouth.com #poem #IceOut #poetry www.salvationsouth.com/colder-than-...

So pleased to have Soft Avocado Heart in @salvationsouth.com Thanks to @chuckreece.bsky.social for seeing what I hoped an editor would see in this piece and for loving it. www.salvationsouth.com/texas-family...

Man, I love this poem by Lucie Brooks @salvationsouth.com www.salvationsouth.com/how-to-survi...

Watch the newest installment of our “Fifty Years of Ferris” series: Bill Ferris’s landmark 1975 film, Made in Mississippi, plus Chuck Reece’s interview with Ferris www.salvationsouth.com/fifty-years-...

Worked on this piece about @widespreadpanic.com on and off for a year, and it's not a piece about music. It's a piece about music fans, and how this band has built a world for them that's stood for nearly 40 years.

I dearly love the writing of @chris-offutt.bsky.social. But I had no idea until last year that his eye was as sharp as his pen. Overjoyed to have his photographs (and words!) in @salvationsouth.com today.

Mike Collins graduated high school, a private one founded in 1970 as whites only, in 1985. This segregation academy either taught spelling poorly, or Rep. Collins just couldn’t pass the class. www.fox5atlanta.com/news/rep-col... #salvationsouth #educationmatters

It’s not just new. It’s also pretty great.

Excited to be part of a group of readers performing this Friday evening at Arthurdale Heritage. Read more about this special place in the new story “POOR WAYFARING STRANGERS: CAN APPALACHIAN STUDIES SURVIVE THE AGE OF TRUMP?” out now from @salvationsouth.com. www.salvationsouth.com/appalachian-...

Southern and Appalachian studies programs in out colleges are critical. But they are in danger. Read this dispatch from @robgipe.bsky.social. Proud to have him in @salvationsouth.com.

My heart is filled with pride and gratitude this weekend as three of my poems are featured in Salvation South @salvationsouth.com - a publication I have admired since its first issue. It is a space that feels like a welcoming home with stories that connect us all. A huge thank you to Andy Fogle!

Out today on @bullcitypress.com. This weekend, we'll have two stories excerpted from the book, plus "Ten Questions for Daniel Wallace."

If you aren’t reading the Salvation South posts, you’re missing out on good stories.

Her eyes, my ambition Thank you @salvationsouth.com & @chuckreece.bsky.social

Do you think your “creative days” are behind you? Read this inspiring piece from @eafentress.bsky.social. Then get to work!

Salvation South has no paywall. Instead, we rely on the $ from folks who join our Family Circle. Please read @chuckreece.bsky.social on why we need to keep our house for Southern storytellers open and welcoming. Then join.

An exciting new series from @salvationsouth.com presents conversations with Bill Ferris to celebrate 50 years since the release of his four landmark film documentaries 🙌 Read or watch the first conversation about GIVE MY POOR HEART EASE 👇 www.salvationsouth.com/give-my-poor...

Support our storytelling and look extra good this summer. We guarantee these are the most comfortable shirts we could find. Perfect for young and old alike. salvationsouth.store/collections/...

On this episode of Salvation South Deluxe: Chuck travels to the foothills of the Smoky Mountains to meet 'the Aristotle of Bacon.' Learn how Benton's Smoky Mountain Country Hams—a humble smokehouse in Tennessee—caught the attention of the fine dining industry and beyond. www.gpb.org/blogs/salvat...

The writing of Affrilachian poet @dalai-mama.bsky.social is badass. In this convo, we talk about family, the “re-narrativization” of the South, recovery, and more. Joy is an amazing person.

Everything begins in childhood. The song starts there, the poem. It was a spring morning when I was born. It was May. My mother’s hair was long. The animals and earth were waking up, preparing for a summer riot. —Han VanderHart “ars poetic with birth ledger and crawfish” in @salvationsouth.com

In his two newest jawnts, Christian J. Collier takes us through nine different bars in Hixson, TN, then into his grandmother's cotton field. Our #NationalPoetryMonth porch party continues. Come in. Stay a while. #AmericanSouth #Southernpoets

#NationalPoetryMonth porch party continues with our interview with @hanvanderhart.bsky.social. Plus six new poems from Han.

Six new poems at @salvationsouth.com, and this love poem with all the seasons and lambing one of my favorites. 💙 www.salvationsouth.com/han-vanderha...

I hope you’ll read my new essay for @salvationsouth.com (Salvation South) about poetry, hope, and belief in troubled times. www.salvationsouth.com/silas-house-...

We welcome #NationalPoetryMonth with the help of #Kentucky poet laureate @silashouse.bsky.social: “When times are dark…gather good people.”

This is just so shocking!

Tiana Clark is one of the most brilliant among the young generation of Southern writers. An unapologetic speaker of truth and love. Read our interview w/ her at @salvationsouth.com.