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FCAC now using Submishmash

Please don't send any­more sub­mis­sions to my email. Go here instead: Sub­mit to Fried Chick­en and Coffee

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Southern Literature Stuck in the Past?

Chris Tusa thinks so, and makes his case in the Spring 2011 issue of Sto­ry South. Any­one who’s spent any length of time liv­ing in the south knows that his­to­ry is impor­tant to us. In the south, we cling to … Con­tin­ue read­ing

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Poems from Mather Schneider

I MISS THE WOODS It’s easy to wor­ship the world but hard to wor­ship peo­ple. Life should be like fight to a dog. But all mod­ern life con­sists of is soci­ety, learn­ing how to nego­ti­ate soci­ety how to deal with the pres­sure of oth­er … Con­tin­ue read­ing

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System Failure

Yeah. It hap­pened to me, on my old­est com­put­er, which I trust­ed, and it let me down, as com­put­ers will. This again delays ship­ments of Ken Clark's won­der­ful chap, Eggs of Amer­i­can Song­birds., to some of you. I trust the … Con­tin­ue read­ing

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Anger Burns, by Gary Carter

  There are those among us / sanc­ti­mo­nious pricks, soul searchers, reli­gious fanat­ics, etc. / who coun­sel that anger is bad, to be avoid­ed / but let me tell you in no uncer­tain terms that good old red-ass anger, blind … Con­tin­ue read­ing

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Andre Dubus in E‑format!

Andre Dubus is one of my five favorite writ­ers and has been for near­ly twen­ty years. One of my fond­est mem­o­ries is sit­ting in Jim Thomson's back­yard just chat­ting with him the one time I met him. This was short­ly … Con­tin­ue read­ing

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Homegrown Tomatoes, poem by Jenifer Lee Wallace

First thing you notice is the col­or. “Red” doesn’t do it jus­tice. This shade only exists in Tech­ni­col­or. They haunt my dreams in late Feb­ru­ary, when a foot of snow cov­ers the ground. Not ruby, not scar­let, not car­di­nal. “Puls­ing red” … Con­tin­ue read­ing

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News in the Redneck Press World

If you look at the drop­down menus at the top left cor­ner of the FCAC home page, you'll notice that Red­neck Press now has pages up for each of the chap­books we'll pub­lish this year as well as the anthol­o­gy … Con­tin­ue read­ing

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What to Expect When Your Wells are Fracked

I said I wasn't going to post much on this any­more, but this arti­cle strikes me as help­ful. Con­sid­er who wrote it and why, and assume that every­thing in it is prob­a­bly under­state­ment. At least, that's my sus­pi­cion. Dis­claimer: This … Con­tin­ue read­ing

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Greece, memoir by Rachel Cann

Once they are born, we fall in love. Irrev­o­ca­bly. The lit­tle toes, the lit­tle fin­gers, even the arch to the eye­brows we iden­ti­fy as our own, passed down from gen­er­a­tions.  The tiny ear is mas­ter­ful­ly per­fect, whorls to cov­et a … Con­tin­ue read­ing

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