In 1969, the year Charles McNair entered the 10th grade, the Dothan, Alabama, public schools finally integrated. This year, the Dothan High Class of 1972 held its 50-year reunion, where joyous, authentic and honest conversations happened across the lines of race.

Welcoming writers into the Salvation South fold means we get to make new friends all the time.

George Lancaster ponders his growing need to rekindle friendships with other men — and the value of male fellowship as the years fly by.

Tennessee poet Linda Parsons brings us verses written for the heat of high summer.

Today, Salvation South brings you everything you will ever need to know about potlikker, thanks to Bonnie Schell.

The ethos of central Mississippi’s Strong River Camp & Farm left Jennifer Kornegay with a deep appreciation of sheer childhood joy, and it remains with her to this very day.

James Seawel shares a memory that is truly and deeply good, a memory that sustained him through a lifetime of changes.

In this poem written in the wake of George Floyd’s murder, Kaylee Eisman wrestles with how to find union with her neighbors.

Chuck Reece remembers traveling with his Uncle Bob to country stores in the North Georgia mountains.

This award-winning Tennessee-based photographer captures the real and imagined places from the greatest Southern fiction.

A broad slate of community collaborations set in motion by Knoxville’s Big Ears Festival offered real sources of hope, not only for the city and its community, but also for people from other cities who came to be part of the experiment. This is the last in a three-part series examining the community engagement initiatives at Big Ears 2022.

Ray McManus, a South Carolina-based writer of poetry and prose, today graces Salvation South with seven — count ’em, seven! — new poems.