Take the time to like and have a look at the Eudora Welty Writer’s Symposium on Facebook and if you can, take the time to run up to Columbus for at least part of the program, it will be well worth your time. It is a wonderful program and a under appreciated gem of Mississippi […]

China Grove: it is a name possessed of both mortal and mythic pretentions. On its face, China Grove, Mississippi harkens to a real locale, a ghost town at a south Mississippi crossroads, with only an old slave-built clapboard Methodist Church and its adjoining cemetery, sitting in the middle of a long leaf pine plantation, as […]

In 2014 two native Mississippians have been selected to recieve a Pulitzer Prize. Donna Tartt of Greenwood received the prize in fiction for her third novel “The Goldfinch” and Meridian native J. L. Adams was awarded the prize in music for his orchestral work “Become Ocean.” Congratulations to them both.

Here in this city, Surrounded by six million twittering birds. Or perhaps they are all ants? I’m sure some of them are aunts? It doesn’t matter. They are as foreign to us, As aliens from planet Zeta Mou. We are all that is. In this city, In this apartment, in the world. We stand shining, […]

Physician, Mystery writer, and teacher Michael Palmer has died at the age of 71 according to his publisher,

Well, it’s time for China Grove #2 to come out and we have made some drastic changes in the line up. The Flannery O’Connor material has been delayed and will come out in CG #3. In it’s place is a discussion of the real P. L. Travers, with unseen photos, letters and some analysis of […]

I’m not going to start off with the pretense that this is an unbiased review. I have long thought Gilchrist to be one of the most talented writers of the second pantheon of Southern writers. She stood alongside the likes of Willie Morris, Walker Percy, Shelby Foote, and Barry Hannah and she more than held […]

It’s 2014. Pick up your shovel and start digging. Digging By Seamus Heaney Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests; snug as a gun. Under my window, a clean rasping sound When the spade sinks into gravelly ground: My father, digging. I look down Till his straining rump among the flowerbeds Bends […]

Merry Christmas from China Grove, Mississippi!!!

Putting together the second issue is proving to be a more difficult task than I had anticipated, so many great submissions to choose from and only 250 pages to put them into. Will need to go to smaller fonts. If you’re already in congrats, if you’re out for sure you know that already too, if […]