“Comics are a gateway drug to literacy.”
Art Spiegelman
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"Of Art, Maus, and Men"
Essay by Terry Barr
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Like many kids, I didn’t want to go to religious class. My mother gave me no choice in the matter, and my father, who was Jewish, took his usual hands-off stance. To get me to go, to help me make it through these confirmation classes, my mother agreed to buy me a new comic book each week.
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"Near Life"
Fiction by Mary Torre Kelly
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His transition had been abrupt. One minute he was home in Florida, taking his last nickering of breath, and the next he was hovering in a television studio four hundred miles away. How was this possible? Wasn’t his brain supposed to stop functioning when he died? Was this some cosmic mistake designed to tip the imagination off to what had been passing for a given but was really just foolish consistency?
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"Blandscape"
Visual Art by John Collins
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Blandscape is a huge acrylic painting depicting the final scene of the free world Sandra Bland ever saw. It was painted from a still of the police video footage on the day she was pulled over, harassed, assaulted, and arrested.
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Grit Lit Hits & Bits - Episode 10
Robert Penn Warren and the Lost Cause
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Steve McCondichie waxes intellectual on the South's Lost Cause and how one of SFK's biggest inspirations—Robert Penn Warren—began changing our culture's perception of the Civil War. It's important that we as Southerners remember that the Civil War shouldn't be glamorized or romanticized. Join the discussion by sharing the video or leaving a comment about your thoughts.
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The New Southern Fugitives seeks previously unpublished writing and art. We pay contributors:
$100 per book review, essay, or short story
$40 per poem
$40 per flash/micro fiction (under 800 words)
$40 per photograph or piece of visual art
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SFK Press seeks book-length fiction by fearless authors. Our mission is to cultivate the artistic voices of the new millennium with a local accent but a global view. We want the multiplicity of the cosmic experience: past, present, or future, the good, the bad, and especially the unexpected. POC, LGBTQIA+, and women to the front.
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