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Salvation South Readings

Salvation South Readings

By: Salvation South
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A feed of Salvation South contributors—poets, essayists, and others—reading their work. A service for our loyal readers whose reading time falls during their commutes.

Salvation South Storytelling Fund LLC 2026
Episodes
  • What All a Southern Woman Can See
    Jun 25 2026

    A sneaky daddy, a rescuer aunt, and a local woman who watches through the diner window turn into sharp looks at small-town Alabama life: a collection of three poems by Rachel Nix.

    Rachel Nix is a queer writer and editor for Screen Door Review. Her own work has appeared in such journals as Sundog Lit, Up the Staircase Quarterly, and The West Review, among others. She resides in Northwest Alabama, where pine trees outnumber people rather nicely.

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    2 mins
  • “Between Sundays: Learning to Sit at the Old Folks’ Table”
    Jun 25 2026

    Watching a table of older friends across a restaurant, the author of Salvation South's monthly "Between Sundays" column, Diana Keough, gets a jolt of fear about where time is taking her—and wonders how to grow old with open hands instead of a clenched jaw.

    Diana Keough is an award-winning journalist and professor of journalism at the University of Georgia. She is the creator of Not From a Nice Family, a memoir podcast that will be released by Audible on September 17, 2026.

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    5 mins
  • The Ledger Bleeds Red
    Jun 25 2026

    As our country prepares to mark 250 years, a son of Selma, Alabama, writer Tad Bartlett, audits the accounts his people kept in blood and cotton. He finds no entry that will ever balance the books.

    Tad Bartlett was born in Ankara, Turkey; grew up in Selma, Alabama; and married into New Orleans, where he earned a J.D. from Tulane Law School and an MFA in fiction from the Creative Writing Workshop at the University of New Orleans. His creative nonfiction received a nomination for the Pushcart Prize, and Best American Essays recognized it as “notable.” His nonfiction work has appeared in The Chautauqua Literary Journal, Salvation South, and Oxford American,among others.His fiction, also Pushcart-nominated, has appeared in Salvation South, Massachusetts Review, Carolina Quarterly, and other publications.

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    27 mins
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