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New Orleans-born essayist and screenwriter Lolis Eric Elie wants to ask a different question than the one Frederick Doug...
06/21/2026

New Orleans-born essayist and screenwriter Lolis Eric Elie wants to ask a different question than the one Frederick Douglass made famous. Not “What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July?” — but ”What, to the non-Black American, is Juneteenth?” His answer, in this essay from 2025, reaches wider than you might expect: to women, to immigrants, to Jews, to anyone whose rights once came late. It is, he writes, a celebration of freedom and justice delayed.

https://www.salvationsouth.com/juneteenth-for-every-american-lolis-eric-elie/

South Arts has awarded 2026 Literary Arts Project Grants to three Salvation South contributors: poet Marlanda Dekine of ...
06/20/2026

South Arts has awarded 2026 Literary Arts Project Grants to three Salvation South contributors: poet Marlanda Dekine of Plantersville, South Carolina; novelist Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle of Qualla, North Carolina; and Anna Robertson of Sautee-Nacoochee, Georgia.

https://www.salvationsouth.com/south-arts-literary-arts-grants-2026/

06/19/2026

Happy Juneteeth, y’all! We have so much to celebrate and so much work to do. Let us be happy warriors in the good fight.

It's August in a Kentucky town where the annual festival is named after the town, but spelled backward. A girl called Bi...
06/14/2026

It's August in a Kentucky town where the annual festival is named after the town, but spelled backward. A girl called Birdie is pressing her face into the metal weave of her family's screen door, waiting for the Nibroc Festival parade to start. Outside, the Shriners are warming up. Inside, the house is so full of secrets she's afraid it will go off like a pressure cooker.

https://www.salvationsouth.com/nibroc-festival-short-story/

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Tina Brown killed her story. In the fall of 1985, Nancy Lemann went home to Louisiana to cover a governor’s corruption t...
06/07/2026

Tina Brown killed her story. In the fall of 1985, Nancy Lemann went home to Louisiana to cover a governor’s corruption trial for Vanity Fair and turned in something stranger and truer than the assignment asked for—all vibes, all feeling. Vanity Fair passed; a book took it in. Forty years later, a re-released The Ritz of the Bayou is a Southern classic again. Spencer George sat with her, and it leads this week’s issue.

https://www.salvationsouth.com/nancy-lemann-interview/

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