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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
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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
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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-...
Nice of you to say so, Mr. West.
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.
We forgot gorgeous. Sorry!
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.
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Thank you!!!
It’s not just new. It’s also pretty great.
That'll work.
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 👇
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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.
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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 Madisonville, Tennesee—caught the attention of the fine dining industry and beyond. https://www.gpb.org/blogs/salvation-south/2025/04/21/deluxe-gods-own-bacon #salvation #bacon #baconbacon #baconévida #baconmakeseverythingbetter #hamhocks #homemadesausage #sausage #smokedsausage #bentonsbacon
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
