There Are Many Souths
It’s time you wrote your own. Join Chuck Reece and Meredith McCarroll for Salvation South’s first virtual writing workshop
There isn’t one South. There are 10,000. Millions, even.
Try as the haters and stereotypers might, our region doesn’t fit in any box. There is no single narrative of the South. Everyone in our region, Southerner by birth or by choice, has their own story—each one a square in the vast quilt that makes up our culture.
That’s why Salvation South will hold Writing Your South, our first online writing workshop, on January 18 at 6 p.m. Our editor-in-chief, Chuck Reece, will join Appalachia Reckoning editor, writer, and teacher Meredith McCarroll to teach a small group of writers how to avoid historical stereotypes and tell their own, from-the-heart stories about this complicated region we call home.
Limited to twenty-five attendees, Writing Your South is meant for writers interested in publishing in places like Salvation South, writers who mean to celebrate and complicate the story of this region. We’ll give writers a chance to put pen to paper, share their ideas with each other and with us, and go away with solid ideas on how to move ahead with their writing.
About the author
Chuck Reece is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of Salvation South, the weekly web magazine you're reading right now. He was the founding editor of The Bitter Southerner. He grew up in the north Georgia mountains in a little town called Ellijay.
Meredith McCarroll is a writer and editor who was born and raised in Western North Carolina. Her first book Unwhite: Appalachia, Race, and Film looks at cinematic representations of the region. Her co-edited collection Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy, won the Weatherford Award and the American Book Award. Her essays have appeared in The Guardian, New Lines, Southern Cultures, and elsewhere. She writes, edits, and teaches writing in Portland, Maine.
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Meredith McCarrollhttps://www.salvationsouth.com/author/meredith-mccarroll/
