Mojo Rising (Volume 1): Masters of the Art

“The two 'Mojo Rising' anthologies showcase an extraordinarily rich group of writers from a region bordered roughly by Memphis, New Orleans, and Nashville. Volume One highlights writers who established the area’s rich heritage in the twentieth century, including, among others, the literary giants William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Tennessee Williams, and Richard Wright. Volume Two, assembling fiction from a wide variety of exciting contemporary writers, testifies to the region’s ongoing literary flourishing. These are superb collections—read them and get a glimpse into the mysterious depths of what James Dickerson calls the Mojo Triangle.”—Robert H. Brinkmeyer, Jr., Director, Institute for Southern Studies, University of South Carolina"Mojo Masters of the Art": An outstanding collection of stories by some of the most renowned Southern writers. Highly recommended. --Robert W. Hamblin, Professor Emeritus of English and Founding Director, Center for Faulkner Studies. Southeast Missouri State University"Mojo Rising" is a short story anthology that includes stories by Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning author William Faulkner, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Eudora Welty, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Tennessee Williams, Richard Wright (generally regarded as one of the top three African American writers in American history), noted Civil War historian and novelist Shelby Foote, author Willie Morris (legendary editor of Harper’s Magazine in the 1960s, novelist, and journalist), American Book Award winner Ellen Gilchrist (who contributed a previously unpublished story), Elizabeth Spencer (graduate of Belhaven College and Vanderbilt University; University of Mississippi creative writing instructor; five-time winner of the O. Henry Award for short fiction), Stark Young, former drama critic for the New York Times and author of bestselling novel “So Red the Rose,” and novelist and short writer Ellen Douglas, whose work has appeared in The New Yorker and in the O. Henry collection of prize stories.“As an art form, the short story has been shunted to the fringe of literary expression,”says Sartoris Literary Group publisher James L. Dickerson. “We want to keep the short story alive—and the best way to do that is to provide it with a loving home. To that end we plan to publish each year an anthology of contemporary writers who are associated with the Mojo Triangle.”About the AuthorJames L. Dickerson is publisher of Sartoris Literary Group. After a career as a journalist for three Pulitzer Prize winning dailies, The Commercial Appeal of Memphis, the Clarion Ledger-Jackson Daily News, and the Delta Democrat-Times of Greenville (MS) when it was owned by the Hodding Carter family, he began a career as a full-time author writing more than 30 books, including the prize winning Mojo Birthplace of Country, Blues, Jazz and Rock ‘n’ Roll. A graduate of the University of Mississippi, Dickerson is also a published short story writer and novelist.