Salvation South

A select few Southern writers create fiction and poetry with equally exquisite skill. This week, the award-winning Kentucky poet Willie Carver publishes his first fiction with us, giving us our first peek at a forthcoming “novel in stories and poems.”

In which an impish, six-year-old girl finds solace in the arms of a laughing son of God.

Odes to music, experience, and making the best gravy.

In the latest Salvation South Deluxe podcast, we dive into the history of the U.S. government’s four-headed assault on Native Americans—and how it changed the South.

An author and playwright navigates her Southern roots and Jewish identity in a world that often saw them as contradictions.

Three Louisiana men, all fathers of little girls, confront a dark secret that tests their morals and bonds them in unexpected ways. Will they serve justice or be consumed by their own hatred?

Far away from home, or long ago in memory, the ones we love still carry us.

Always immersed in the natural world, this Georgia poet shows us how to savor the ever-changing weather.

Salvation South has just opened its new submissions system. Here are the details.

The multimedia visual art of Ted Whisenhunt mystically conjures the totality of the South—our flora and fauna, our food and music, our people and communities—in strikingly original ways.

And no, we don’t mean the Georgia Tech football team.

In the eyes of this North Carolina poet, everything—even that which is not “eco”—is part of an ecosystem.