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Salvation South Readings

Salvation South Readings

por Salvation South

Sociedad y Cultura

Temporada 2026

A Stag Bows to the Moon

A poem by Lacy Snapp, read by the author. Lacy Snapp is a poet, professor, and woodworking artist in East Tennessee where they plan university and community-based literary events. They serve as poetry co-editor of Appalachian Places and a board member of the Johnson City Poets Collective. Their first chapbook, Shadows on Wood (Finishing Line Press), was published in 2021. Snapp’s poetry, nonfiction, interviews, and book reviews appear in About Place Journal, The Ekphrastic Review, Salvation South, Hunger Mountain Review, and Cutleaf Journal.

The Ledger Bleeds Red

As our country prepares to mark 250 years, a son of Selma, Alabama, writer Tad Bartlett, audits the accounts his people kept in blood and cotton. He finds no entry that will ever balance the books. Tad Bartlett was born in Ankara, Turkey; grew up in Selma, Alabama; and married into New Orleans, where he earned a J.D. from Tulane Law School and an MFA in fiction from the Creative Writing Workshop at the University of New Orleans. His creative nonfiction received a nomination for the Pushcart Prize, and Best American Essays recognized it as “notable.” His nonfiction work has appeared in The Chautauqua Literary Journal, Salvation South, and Oxford American,among others.His fiction, also Pushcart-nominated, has appeared in Salvation South, Massachusetts Review, Carolina Quarterly, and other publications.

Rising Tide

Heath Gibson reads his short story "Rising Tide." Heath Gibson is the author of young adult novels—Gigged (2010, Flux) and Burn (2012, Flux). His latest work, “Not Much of a Choice” appears in Deep South Magazine. Gibson holds an MFA from Hollins University in Roanoke, Virginia. He splits time between Atlanta and Oldmeldrum, Scotland, and fills his life with all his little obsessions—teaching his daughter how to deliver a punchline, cycling, and trying to create soups that will make people believe in magic.

Between Sundays: Does God Really Have a Plan?

Hear Diana Keough read her monthly "Between Sundays" column for July 2026: "Does God Really Have a Plan?" Diana Keough is an award-winning journalist and professor of journalism at the University of Georgia. She is the creator of Not From a Nice Family, a memoir podcast that will be released by Audible on September 17, 2026.

The Trees Say Bad Idea: Three Poems

Hear Charles Livesay read three poems: “My Mother’s Son,” “Hawks Won’t Wait,” and “Crappie Season Again.“ Charles Richard Livesay is a teacher from Knoxville, Tennessee. He has been published in Strange Horizons, Oh Reader, Pictura Journal, Rat’s Ass Review, and oddball magazine, among others. He watches birds, reads books, and sometimes forgets to take out his earbuds before he falls asleep. When that happens, Buck Owens haunts his dreams.

Somewhere, Summer

Carrie Green reads her poem "Somewhere, Summer." Carrie Green is the author of Studies of Familiar Birds: Poems (Able Muse Press, 2020) and Millie MacAdoo Takes Note: A Mystery in Verse, forthcoming from Able Muse Press. She is the winner of the 2025 Brink Literary Journal Award for Hybrid Writing and the 2025 Kentucky Foundation for Women Writers Prize. Her poems and visual poems have appeared or are forthcoming in American Life in Poetry, Verse Daily, Terrain, Tupelo Quarterly, Bellingham Review, Shenandoah, and elsewhere.

Songs From the South: Four Poems

Stan Lake reads four poems from his debut collection, A Toad in a Glass Jar: “A Toad in a Glass Jar,” “I Hope Heaven Is a Wild Place,” “What Weight Does a Tree Carry?” and “Long Before the War.” Stan Lake is a writer, photographer, and filmmaker living in Pfafftown, North Carolina, with his wife Jess and their house full of animals. A veteran of the North Carolina Army National Guard, he often draws on his deployment to Iraq and his love of Southern wildlife in his work. His poetry collection, A Toad in a Glass Jar (2026), was published by Dead Reckoning Collective.

Atop a Ridge in Boone: Three Poems

Caleb Johnson reads his poems “In Praise of the Blackberry.” “Atop a Ridge in Boone,” and “Our Son Has Reminded Me.” Caleb Johnson is the author of the novels Telegraph Road (Hub City Press, August 2027) and Treeborne (Picador), which was named an honorable mention for the Southern Book Prize. His poetry has been published in Appalachian Journal, Birmingham Poetry Review, The Hopper, and is forthcoming elsewhere. His nonfiction appears widely in magazines and newspapers, and has been cited in The Best American Essays. He teaches at Appalachian State University.

The Dogwood Years

Emma Galloway Stephens reads her powm “The Dogwood Years.” Emma Galloway Stephens is a neurodivergent poet and professor from the Appalachian foothills of South Carolina. Her poems have appeared in Red Branch Review, The Christian Century, Door is a Jar, Salvation South, and many others. She's the author of No Billboard Gospel (Solum Literary Press, 2026).

Between Sundays: What No One Tells You About Loving Grown Sons

The love never shrinks. Only the need does — and learning to tell the two apart may be the last work of motherhood. Diana Keough is an award-winning journalist and professor of journalism at the University of Georgia. She is the creator of Not From a Nice Family, a memoir podcast that will be released by Audible on September 17, 2026.

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