Three Years of Southern Stories, and a Dream of Change
As Salvation South marks three years of publication, editor Chuck Reece looks back at a stellar lineup of established Southern authors and fresh voices.
Stories
Gauthier Remembers Griffith
We welcome one of our favorite Grammy-nominated songwriters, Mary Gauthier, to our pages with a tribute to her heroine, the late Nanci Griffith.
By Chuck Reece /
Where I’m From: Seven Decades in Seven Scenes
An island poet from North Carolina recounts a life defined by books, music, and events far beyond her control.
By Deb Bowen /
Grits by Any Other Name
While studying in Uganda, one Southerner learned that even eight thousand miles away, familiar flavors can bring you home in an instant.
By Sydney Marie Jones /
To Make Peace With My Life
An Arkansas veteran and professor unearths the South’s ambiguous tracks.
By Kae Chatman /
What Lives On
A Tennessee musician wrestles with ghosts—the troubling, the beloved, and the holy.
By Stephen Simmons /
Taking Down the Flag
Our poetry editor steps into the Editor’s Corner to walk us through a week of writing that wrestles with the Confederacy, that army of a million ghosts who haunt the South.
By Andy Fogle /
Let It Be Declared
From South Carolina to Washington, D.C., a chronicle of poetic lineage and family history.
By Brian Gilmore /
What We Love, What We Become
Illumination can spring from anywhere: the beach, our vices, or the sacred tomato sandwich.
By Paul Jones /
Under the Tree of Forgiveness
An early excerpt from the upcoming book “Prine on Prine”—one of John Prine’s final interviews, with the man who produced his final album.
By Holly Gleason and Dave Cobb /
The Kindness of Strangers
Playwright Tennessee Williams was born in Mississippi and raised in the almost-South of Missouri. But no writer is more indelibly associated with the Big Easy.
By Rob Rushin-Knopf /
We’ll Get By
Two poems that take an unflinching look inside a struggling family in Southern Appalachia.