A collection of essays, stories, and poems by thirty-two Southern writers, including Jim Dees, Bret Anthony Johnston, and Diane McWhorter.

Anthrology of Southern writers

Presents short stories set in the South, from such writers as Daniel Wallace, Rick Bragg, Mary Ward Brown, Juliana Gray, and Alix Strauss.

A debut collection of short fiction from this National Magazine Award in Fiction finalist. Set in a variety of Southern and Midwestern landscapes — from Missouri’s Ha Ha Tonka State Park to a crop circle at a Minnesotan farm — the stories in 'Between Here and the Yellow Sea' excavate the ambiguous terrain of the human heart. With a forceful and compassionate voice, Pizzolatto finds beauty in loneliness as his characters attempt to bridge the gulfs between themselves and others, past and present, and, sometimes, between their inner and outer selves. In this both heartbreaking and humorous collection, we meet a base-jumping, samurai park ranger who parachutes off the St. Louis Arch; a stained glass artist who struggles over his masterpiece and learns through great loss what his true subject will be; and a religious elementary school teacher who tries to understand her rebellious, militant son. In the title story, which first appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, an orphaned young man and his former high school football coach set out to kidnap the coach’s daughter from Los Angeles and bring her back to east Texas. With an assured, poignant voice, Pizzolatto places us at the crossroads of memory and desire, somewhere between here and the Yellow Sea.

A short story collection highlighting the Blue Moon Caf? series veterans. Edited by Tom Franklin, the acclaimed author of Hell at the Breach, and the endlessly talented poet Beth Ann Fennelly. As each Blue Moon volume includes new voices, the idea of loosing such enormous amounts of talent and stories going untold was too much to bear. Alumni Grill keeps a slew of southern talent from slipping out the Caf?'s back door and in front of fans.

Contributions by Julie Cantrell, Katherine Clark, Susan Cushman, Jim Dees, Clyde Edgerton, W. Ralph Eubanks, John M. Floyd, Joe Formichella, Patti Callahan Henry, Jennifer Horne, Ravi Howard, Suzanne Hudson, River Jordan, Harrison Scott Key, Cassandra King, Alan Lightman, Sonja Livingston, Corey Mesler, Niles Reddick, Wendy Reed, Nicole Seitz, Lee Smith, Michael Farris Smith, Sally Palmer Thomason, Jacqueline Allen Trimble, M. O. Walsh, and Claude Wilkinson The South is often misunderstood on the national stage, characterized by its struggles with poverty, education, and racism, yet the region has yielded an abundance of undeniably great literature. In Southern Writers on Writing, Susan Cushman collects twenty-six writers from across the South whose work celebrates southern culture and shapes the landscape of contemporary southern literature. Contributors hail from Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Tennessee, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, and Florida. Contributors such as Lee Smith, Michael Farris Smith, W. Ralph Eubanks, and Harrison Scott Key, among others, explore issues like race, politics, and family and the apex of those issues colliding. It discusses landscapes, voices in the South, and how writers write. The anthology is divided into six sections, including “Becoming a Writer;” “Becoming a Southern Writer;” “Place, Politics, People;” “Writing about Race;” “The Craft of Writing;” and “A Little Help from My Friends.”

The fourth edition of the acclaimed Blue Moon Café series serves up another hearty helping of Southern fiction, essays, poems, and musical musings by both seasoned prize-winners and up-and-coming writers. With stories ranging from a heartbreaking funeral for a beloved goat and an aspiring musicians move to Nashville to the memory of two children who disappear in the thick summer heat, this diverse and captivating collection is sure to satisfy everyones appetite.