Happy Anniversary, y’all!
This issue marks one year that we’ve been back, bringing you great new Southern/Southwestern fiction, poetry, art, food, and of course book and music reviews and recommendations.
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This issue features four new short stories. In Lynne Barrett’s “Mary Anne’s Tan,” a woman running a beachfront restaurant overhears a customer fondly reminiscing about a woman he once knew there. Larry Desautels reminisces about a less idyllic relationship in “Me and Marley.” In Heath Dollar’s “Rose Colored Sunglasses,” a family spat culminates at a gravesite while a beleagured gravedigger does his best to handle things professionally. And in “There Is a Fountain Filled with Blood,” John Dufresne elaborates on the fate of Peregrine Fontana, the backwater patriarch from Louisiana Power & Light.
We are once again grateful to feature new poetry from Gaylord Brewer and Peter Mladinic.
The beautiful heron on the cover is from Michelle Held’s painting Big Blue. This issue features plein air painting from three artists who go set up their easels and palettes in the wild and paint live. Enjoy gorgeous scenic paintings from Michelle, Carl Bretzke, and Garry Kravit.
As always, the biggest challenge we face every issue is pulling enough content together in time. So we are open for submissions. We have also partnered with Stack’s submission service, which is free for authors. Our submissions guidelines are posted on this page and in more detail on the website. We also welcome reviews and recommendations for Southern and Southwestern books, music, arts, and food.
Real South/West is a reader-supported publication. We’ve got a great new web developer helping us spiff up the site (as y’all might’ve noticed). He’s also working out a metered paywall for premium content. The reviews and recommendations will always be free, as well as some back issues. In the meantime, we’re putting up the ol’ PayPal tip bucket to help defray expenses.
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