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Kentucky poet Emma Aprile, winner of the Salvation South New Poets Prize, smiling outdoors with trees in the background; featured in an exclusive interview and poetry collection for Salvation South, highlighting emerging Southern poets and contemporary poetry.

We Are All From Where We Are

Louisville poet Emma Aprile, winner of our inaugural Salvation South New Poets Prize, discusses her creative process, the landscapes that shape her work, and what it means to write from and for the South.

Chicken. Dumplings. Legacy.

In southeastern Georgia, a mother stews up some chicken and considers what her family farm requires of her—not what she requires of it.

I Do Believe in Miracles

Harriet Tubman first escaped enslavement in Dorchester County, on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, on September 17, 1849. She returned at least 13 times to lead at least 70 to freedom. One-hundred-and-seventy-five years after that first escape, these four poems from southeast Virginia honor her spirit of resistance and solidarity.

The Double Threats of Southern Storytelling

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.”

Transubstantiation Gone Wrong

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

This Is the Truth, Sugar

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

The Ones Who Were Here Before Us

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.

Confessions of a Jewish-American Belle

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

Meet Me There

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?

Road Trip to Texas

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

Hand in Hand With Humidity

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

A New Way to Submit Your Work

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

The Whole of the South

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.