Now Available: The 2010 New Southerner Literary Edition featuring 2010 Contest Winners and Finalists
Now Available: The 2009-10 New Southerner Literary Edition featuring 2009 Contest Winners and Finalists
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Congratulations to our Pushcart Prize nominees
It’s with great pleasure that we nominate the following works from New Southerner for the Pushcart Prize:
“To Sing and Sing Again” by Marianne Worthington (poetry)
“The Rabbit Cage” by Matthew Haughton (poetry)
“Dictum” by Rosemary Royston (poetry)
“Blasting Zone” by G.C. Compton (poetry)
“The Heart of the Woods” by Eva Sage Gordon (nonfiction)
“We’re… »
Baby Steps: Epic Fail … Up Next: Blue Pills or Off-Grid Movie Spoilers
BABY STEPS
By KIMBERLY ANDERSON
Assistant Editor
Kimberly’s blog focuses on a single objective each month intended to help her and her readers take baby steps toward better living in the spirit of New Southerner. You can keep up with her progress by checking her… »
New Southerner suspends publication
Due to financial difficulties, we have suspended publication of New Southerner while we explore options for restructuring and relaunching operations. Please enjoy our archive of previously published material, which we will continue to make available as long as possible.
We are deeply grateful to the readers, contributors and staff of volunteers who made publication possible for… »
Southeastern landscape finds its Mary Oliver in Janisse Ray’s ‘House of Branches’
BOOK REVIEW
By CHRISTOPHER MARTIN
A House of Branches
Janisse Ray
Wind Publications, 2010
Upon the publication of Ecology of a Cracker Childhood, Janisse Ray’s prose testament to the rich human history and the devastated longleaf pinewoods of south Georgia, a reviewer for the New York Times declared, “the forests of the Southeast find their Rachel Carson.” A little over… »
‘The Hands of Strangers:’ A Quick and Satisfying Book for Summer
BOOK REVIEW
By BETH BROWNE
The Hands of Strangers
Michael J. Smith
Main Street Rag, 2011
Read a great novella lately? Neither had I until someone gave me a copy of Michael F. Smith’s The Hands of Strangers. I picked it up and could not put it down. And best of all, I only had to neglect… »
Sowing New Mustard Seeds: The Moral Question of Mountaintop Removal
By CHRISTOPHER MARTIN
Mountaintop removal is not primarily an “environmental issue,” but a moral one—a fact seldom acknowledged by those who support it. The powers that be would like the public to keep on believing that blowing up mountains is a perfectly acceptable way to get coal, and that folks who say otherwise are just left-leaning… »
2010 Literary Contest Winners & Print Edition
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