Salvation South

Every week in summertime, he’d visit the bank where she worked, set up shop in a vacant office and sell his prize Better Boy tomatoes.

Until his death in 2019, Florida State University’s Ned Stuckey-French was a master of the tricky beast called the “personal essay.” Rob Rushin-Knopf looks back at the writer and teacher’s brilliant career.

Tom Hendrix spent 30 years building a wall that is neither a barrier to keep anyone out nor a monument to glorify its builder. It is, instead, a portal to the past. It pays tribute to a courageous Native American ancestor and what her life’s journey teaches us about our common humanity and the profound significance of how we order our steps in this world.

A severe head injury to our editor shut us down for almost two months. Now we’re back and better than ever.

Robert Fell reflects on 42 years behind bars for the murder of his wife

A day in the life of a Florida prisoner

Allison Langer began teaching writing to inmates in a Florida prison several years ago. This week, we run three pieces by inmates, set up by an intro from Allison.

Eduardo Martinez with a poem of questions from inside the walls

Sybil Rosen was in love with the forest that surrounded her cabin. Then the power company came with the world’s largest dozers. They tortured the timber, and they stripped all the land.

A head injury put us in the hospital for a while. Next Friday, Salvation South will be back.

No matter how hard you dig across the internet, you can’t find out much about Mrs. Ruby Henley of Social Circle, Georgia, and her Russian Communist Tea Cakes.

Salvation South is taking the week off so we can travel to the Word of South festival in Tallahassee, Florida. We’ll be back with our regularly scheduled programming on Friday, April 15.