Salvation South

From punk rock roots to Americana success, Caleb Caudle discusses his evolution as a songwriter and the path that led to his upcoming Grand Ole Opry debut.

Tammy’s about to get her associate’s degree and she’s got a chance to get a real job, with a desk and a chair and vacation days. There’s just this one thing…

In southeastern Georgia, a mother stews up some chicken and considers what her family farm requires of her—not what she requires of it.

Harriet Tubman first escaped enslavement in Dorchester County, on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, on September 17, 1849. She returned at least 13 times to lead at least 70 to freedom. One-hundred-and-seventy-five years after that first escape, these four poems from southeast Virginia honor her spirit of resistance and solidarity.

A select few Southern writers create fiction and poetry with equally exquisite skill. This week, the award-winning Kentucky poet Willie Carver publishes his first fiction with us, giving us our first peek at a forthcoming “novel in stories and poems.”

In which an impish, six-year-old girl finds solace in the arms of a laughing son of God.

Odes to music, experience, and making the best gravy.

In the latest Salvation South Deluxe podcast, we dive into the history of the U.S. government’s four-headed assault on Native Americans—and how it changed the South.

An author and playwright navigates her Southern roots and Jewish identity in a world that often saw them as contradictions.

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?

Far away from home, or long ago in memory, the ones we love still carry us.

Always immersed in the natural world, this Georgia poet shows us how to savor the ever-changing weather.