When did you first fall in love with books? I was seven, curled in my grandmother’s rocker, devouring Little House on the Prairie. My...

Below are selected poems from the participants in the Manifest Voices poetry workshop for teens this summer. This year we had 7...

I’ve found your favorite summer read. Once you finish it, I declare you’ll want to read it again and then tell all your girlfriends.The...

You know when you’re traveling to the beach and the road ahead of you stretches for miles and the exits become less frequent? Then as...

Fire Sermon by Jamie Quatro - A Book Review by Eleanor Howard Fire Sermon by Jamie Quatro, published in January 2018 by Grove Press, is...

Fellow Southern literature fanatics will probably recall the following quote from Harper Lee’s classic novel, To Kill a Mockingbird:...

I don’t think it’s an overgeneralization to say that our relationships to our families and to our place of births are frequently fraught...

" Meet Cicero the raven in Jim Minick's book Fire is Your Water "So I said OK. Big Deal. It was just a matter of figuring out how to...

The mountains of Pennsylvania are filled with secrets, family and faith, as is the novel Fire is Your Water by Jim Minick, which takes...

The first thing that struck me about Skandalon, T.R. Hummer’s latest collection of poetry, was the title. I mean, what on earth is a...

DEAR LONELINESS You are the cold hand on the back of my neck the pulsing breath chained to my heart on days when the world grinds on my...

Art has the ability to transform us. Anyone who has ever watched a thought-provoking film, heard a moving piece of music, or read a...

“My aunt is Harper Lee.” My children’s existences hinge on those five simple words, for that was the very effective pickup line their...

History is like a cluttered attic, hiding boxes stuffed with dark secrets in forgotten corners. One such secret is the work of Georgia...

Nothing says “summer reading” like a good thriller, so I was more than happy to dig into That Bright Land, the newest novel from Terry...

Admittedly, I have a penchant for the fantastical. I spent most of my formative years reading Harry Potter and Redwall novels, and I...

Hello all! After a little less than a week of lurking in the shadows, I figured it was probably about time that I introduced myself. So,...

Verbie and Hugh Prevost Award Winner for Outstanding Poetry from the Young Southern Student Writers Contest Maggie Thal, Grade 11 Signal...

A Question of Mercy is Elizabeth Cox’s fifth novel and a rare look at mental-health treatment in 1950’s America. Jess Booker, the...

Anyone who has spent anytime around So Lit in the past 7 years has probably run into Ann Johnson. Ann is the Director of Operations,...