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
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good news--I've got two new poems up today at @salvationsouth.com. Thanks to poetry editor Andy Fogle! www.salvationsouth.com/marianne-wor...
Marianne Worthington Poems: Blue Sheets & Seasoned Sycamore
Two new Worthington poems fold mother memory into Appalachian elegy for her late mentor, Jeff Daniel Marion: blue sheets, a felled sycamore.
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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...
Nathan Evans Fox on 'Heirloom' and Moral Inheritance
Nathan Evans Fox on 'Heirloom': his late dad's work jacket, his Mamaw's open screen door, and a hillbilly tradition that refuses to be anybody's joke.
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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).
Deluxe: When the Place You Come From Is Gone
Podcast Episode · Salvation South · May 20 · 29m
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Read “Echoes of Grace, Threats of Erasure,” Kevin’s exclusive essay for us about how writing the book changed him.
Mother Emanuel Charleston History of Resilience
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Kevin Sack on his ten-year dive into centuries of resistance and forgiveness at Charleston’s Mother Emanuel.
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Salvation South@salvationsouth.com · 3mo agoCongratulations to our contributor Kevin Sack, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction.
“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….
Salvation South@salvationsouth.com · 3mo agoCongratulations to our contributor Kevin Sack, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction.
Congratulations to our contributor Kevin Sack, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction.
Pulitzer Prizes 2026: A Guide to the Winning Books and Finalists
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Congrats to @salvationsouth.com contributor James McWilliams—a Pulitzer Prize’Finalist www.nytimes.com/shared/v1/cl...
Pulitzer Prizes 2026: A Guide to the Winning Books and Finalists
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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.
Repassing
In “Repassing,” Geraldine returns to Mississippi to bury kin—and confront an old lie and the what-ifs that shaped her life in Chicago.
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The Bones of Pauline Pusser
A McNairy County native reckons with new TBI evidence that the Walking Tall "ambush" of Buford and Pauline Pusser was no ambush at all.
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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...
Soft Avocado Heart
Sherri Alms’s essay from a Texas family funeral looks at how to belong in a family with different politics and religion. Grieving in Texas...
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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-...
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.
A Place to Be Happy
Chuck Reece explores Widespread Panic, the devotion of its fans, and the enduring community built on joy, kinship, and sharing.
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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.
No Grand Subjects Here: Offutt Shoots Mississippi
Mississippi photography by legendary writer Chris Offutt. This Southern photo essay captures everday sights with sharp Mississippi images.
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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
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.
Can Appalachian Studies Survive the Age of Trump?
With Appalachian Studies programs under threat, Arthurdale, West Virginia, is building new roads to Appalachian cultural preservation.
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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!
Memory, Migration, and Molasses
Three poems by Nancy Yang, a Southern-born poet in California. An exclusive new collection for Salvation South.
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Out today on @bullcitypress.com. This weekend, we'll have two stories excerpted from the book, plus "Ten Questions for Daniel Wallace."
Bull City Press@bullcitypress.com · last yr.Excited about the release of Daniel Wallace's BENEATH THE MOON AND LONG DEAD STARS? Grab your copy at his launch reading, tonight at Flyleaf Books in Chapel Hill! flyleafbooks.com/event/wallac...
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Salvation South@salvationsouth.com · last yr.Do you think your “creative days” are behind you? Read this inspiring piece from @eafentress.bsky.social. Then get to work!
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Chuck Reece@chuckreece.bsky.social · last yr.@eafentress.bsky.social took what, in most writers’ hands, would have been a reflection on an artist’s career and turned it into inspiration for anyone in midlife who is driven to create. Proud to publish this in @salvationsouth.com.
Do you think your “creative days” are behind you? Read this inspiring piece from @eafentress.bsky.social. Then get to work!
The Power of Blooming Late
Discover Dusti Bongé’s biography and legacy in Ellen Ann Fentress’s essay on Mississippi women artists and creative ambition blooming late.
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When Times Are Dark, Have Mercy
Join our Southern storytelling community: support Southern writers with a Salvation South membership and help keep the magazine alive.
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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...
Fifty Years of Ferris
Watch "Give My Poor Heart Ease" and a Bill Ferris interview about his landmark 1975 Mississippi blues documentary.
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