Vol. 1, Issue 17

“I feel an intense intimacy with those who have this loathing interest in me. Further than this, I know what they mean, I sympathize with them, I understand them.”
Anarchism Is Not Enough, Laura Riding

A Note from the Editor | News

by TNSF | Mar 7, 2018 | Vol. 1, Issue 17, Wherey'at?

My earliest years as a writer felt molasses-slow; mentors insisted that I needed to read for education more than for pleasure, and they dispensed frustrating wisdom like, “Stick with it and you’ll hit your stride by forty.” Now that I’m months...

Southern Lit Presents: The Anatomy of Laura Riding Jackson

by TNSF | Mar 7, 2018 | Nonfiction, Southern Lit Presents, Vol. 1, Issue 17

Perform a general Google search for authors past and present hailing from any American state below the Mason-Dixon line, and you’re bound to find a convoy of white males. Even in these supposed progressive times, it takes more digging to uncover the biographies and...

An Incident in Pottowa County | Fiction

by TNSF | Mar 7, 2018 | Stories, Vol. 1, Issue 17

CHURCH BURNED TO GROUND The burnt ruins of the First Church of God’s Wanderers shocked churchgoers Sunday morning. Eyewitness and burn victim Calvin “Oat” Jenkins said the following: “I was just getting there ahead of time for Sunday School, and the...

Beach Debris | Photography

by TNSF | Mar 7, 2018 | Photography, Vol. 1, Issue 17

The Pacific coast here is woefully lacking in collectible sea shells, but the tide line is often full of remnants of local life like this, commonplace snails and mussels. (Click on the image for a high-resolution version.) Pat Tompkins is an editor in the San...