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Southern Spaces
A journal about real and imagined spaces and places of the US South and their global connections

Sowing The Seed Underground

...low-residency creative writing program at Chatham University. She has published poetry and non-fiction books, including Ecology of a Cracker Childhood (1999). Ray lives and works on a family farm in...

Work

...Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance Poetry Book of the Year. Her first novel, Sufficient Grace, debuted in June 2006, shortly after her fiftieth birthday. Arnoult now lives in Brush Creek, Tennessee....

Remnants of Flannery

Flannery O'Connor's place in American literature is undisputed. A master of the short story, her The Complete Stories (1971) was voted the "favorite" of the sixty fiction winners of the...

Southwestern Humor: The Beginning of "Grit Lit"

...a deliberately disruptive way." Interestingly, Gray uses this description of the genre in a book called Southern Aberrations: Writers of the American South and the Problems of Regionalism (2000) and...

"We're Almost There": The Drive-By Truckers' Art of Place

...American Routes' Nick Spitzer interviews Mike Cooley, Shonna Tucker, and Patterson Hood, February 9, 2011. http://americanroutes.publicradio.org/player/playlist/25905/hour1 Musically, over the last several years, the Truckers have been coming home more often....

Public Health in the US and Global South

...hit African Americans especially hard. Widespread poverty for generations following Reconstruction exposed hundreds of thousands of poor, rural southerners to hookworm infection and pellagra. By the end of the nineteenth...

And the Prize Goes to...

...Cultures, MELUS, the Bitter Southerner, American Quarterly, and American Literature, among others. Screenshot of Delerme's article on the Southern Spaces website. Courtesy of Southern Spaces. The class divided into teams...