Southern Writers on Writing

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. Essayists discuss landscapes, voices in the South, and how writers write. The anthology is divided into six sections, including "Becoming a Writer,"; "Place, Politics, People"; "Writing about Race,"; "The Craft of Writing,"; and "A Little Help from My Friends."