Snake Nation Press

04/03/2026

The deadlines for the Poetry and Fiction Contests have been extended to April 30, 2026.

01/03/2026

Jerry Wayne Longmire a wonderful writer and speaker.

08/08/2025

The Origin of Affection by David Sapp
A memoir in poetry and prose

Winner of the Violet Reed Haas Prize for Poetry

In many ways, it makes my heart hurt to read David Sapp’s collection of poetry and prose pieces. The work starts with the prose pieces and the family farm and is so like my early life with my family, a chronicle of grandparents, aunts, and uncles, one Uncle Cal, who sends letters home.
The Farm and its many components from the drop leaf table to the door, to the food are told about in poetry. And the value of work, especially the work of hay, corn, soybeans, and wheat and what it meant to this young man. Sapp’s father-in-law even gets a mention as “a quiet man who never spoke/ of kicking the N***s out of Italy,”
The reader gets to know the family, with all their many quirks, and the poem, "The Wallet” about his grandfather’s billfold brought me to tears. But it’s his mother, the routine description of one woman’s descent into madness, which almost destroys her husband and children’s lives is the basis for the book..

-Roberta George
Founding Editor ~ Snake Nation Press

07/14/2025

Dean Poling’s article about Roberta George:

Heavy rain didn’t dampen the turnout for the 38th Annual Spring Into Art reception at the Annette Howell Turner Center for the Arts. Sometimes the cliche speaks volumes because it’s true. Rain fell all afternoon. Thunder echoed through the skies. Lightning flashed. Storm alert devices sounded wi...

07/11/2025

Looking for literary rebels. Is anybody out there?

07/11/2025

Invasion

06/05/2025

Roberta George, founder of Snake Nation Press, was awarded the Lena Bosch Lifetime Achievement Award at the 38th Spring Into Art Gala, on April 7, by the Turner Center for the Arts.

The Annette Howell Turner Center for the Arts announced Roberta George as the recipient of the Lena Bosch Lifetime Achievement Award at the 38th Spring Into Art Gala, on April...

05/16/2025

Roberta George’s book is now available in the bookstore:

Roberta George turns a family story of sisters, one who escapes Valdosta, Georgia's jail, into a riveting tale of women of the West and South.

05/07/2025

The New Roof

12/17/2024

Haley Hyatt, artist and long-time friend of Snake Nation Press, passed away. Her art will live on.

06/13/2024

https://www.valdostadailytimes.com/news/lifestyles/s-ga-author-shares-history-value-of-black-family-reunions/article_3e864f38-242b-11ef-9d9f-43ee8ecb82fd.html?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR39JdzOnlEGCSlUaxunqFbUlaZ4YwOUGahvTHFzuuEJ4xfcFaUOVT05wc8_aem_AfYbCfLdPIrt4IUIv-sBH3ohE-LnOUwbwUqFG7ElaZgK5tKLhqkipXykpSyC8D0ybzdrXA3hFpTdyEwxtujZoQxC

VALDOSTA – Roy Copeland has a long and accomplished resume.