Sam G. Candler, Author at Salvation South

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Sam G. Candler

A Cemetery Soloist Sings Amazing Grace

Amidst increasing frailty, tough terrain, and inevitable loss, a lone singer can steady the spirit.

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Nat Myers’s sound is reminiscent of Charley Patton and Memphis Minnie, but his perspective as a first-generation Korean-American raised in Kentucky brings a fresh twist to the fingerstyle blues tradition.

A Georgia poet moves furiously up and down our hills, into our winter winds and through the baskets of various apples laid out at picking time.

Inevitably, it comes time for the one who loves us best to leave. But maybe she’s always around, like that bird outside the window.

Octavio Quintanilla’s roots lie deep in both South Texas and Mexico. And his work dwells between worlds—geographic, cultural, and emotional.

Three Louisiana men, all fathers of little girls, confront a dark secret that tests their morals and bonds them in unexpected ways. Will they serve justice or be consumed by their own hatred?

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Louisville poet Emma Aprile, winner of our inaugural Salvation South New Poets Prize, discusses her creative process, the landscapes that shape her work, and what it means to write from and for the South.

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A Cemetery Soloist Sings Amazing Grace

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