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A collection of 153 posts

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Essay by Chris Edwards

Chris Edwards is a retired educator and fiction writer living in Mississippi with his wife, Ann. He writes fiction and poetry exploring relationships, memory, humor, and the strange turns of ordinary life. His work has appeared in Deep South Magazine and Every Day Fiction, and he has recently completed a

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Fiction by Cindy Sams

Cindy Sams is a Georgia writer whose work explores Southern identity, family mythology, and generational survival through scene-driven and hybrid forms. Her essays have appeared in Under the Gum Tree, Reckon Review, The Brevity Blog, Porchlight: A Journal of Southern Literature, and elsewhere. She lives in Macon, where the

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Fiction by Conor Clark

Conor Clark is a fiction writer pursuing his MFA at the Warren Wilson Program for Writers. His work has been published at Watershed Review. He has been a facade inspector, Professional Engineer, Dogboy frontman, temple builder, and tech strategy consultant. He lives in Ridgewood, Queens.  Scared Sacred The nurse keeps

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Poetry by Darren Morris

Darren Morris is a writer living in Richmond, Virginia, who has lost much of his sight to retinitis pigmentosa. His long-form hybrid work, "Eisegesis 1-3," won the 2024 Experimental Poetry Prize from the Connecticut Poetry Society. Recent work appears at Willow Springs Magazine, Stone Circle Review,

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Novella by George Singleton

Porchlight is proud to continue the American tradition of serialization by offering a novella, What I Can’t Repress by George Singleton. Following is the first of five installments. George Singleton has published eleven collections of stories—most recently, Wounded Boarders—two novels, a book of writing advice, and a

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Essay by Lis Anna-Langston

Lis Anna-Langston is an award-winning author, storyteller, and culturalbobserver whose work explores love, devotion, and the emotional architecture of everyday life. Her essays and stories examine how people navigate identity, memory, and social systems that have outlived their moral justification in a rapidly changing world. Hailed as “an

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Poetry by John Miller

Another Untidy Pilgrim from Eugene Walter's Kingdom of Ghosts and Monkeys, John Miller slept with his dictionary as a child. His poems have appeared in Rust & Moth, Rockvale Review, Poetry South, Oyster River Pages, and elsewhere. Fernwood Press published his collection, How My Father Became a Boat,

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Poetry by Ron Cooper

Ron Cooper is a native of South Carolina and currently a Florida resident. He is the author of four novels, the latest of which, All My Sins Remembered, was a Florida Book Award medalist. The Washington Post called his novel Purple Jesus "a literary event of the first magnitude.

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Poetry by Shana Jones

Shana Campbell Jones works at the University of Georgia where she focuses on coastal law and policy. Her work has appeared in Ecotone, Poetry South, Orion, The Barely South Review, and The Agnes Scott Writer’s Festival Magazine. She grew up in the Florida Panhandle and lives in Athens, Georgia.

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Poetry by Sharon Ackerman

Sharon Perkins Ackerman lives in central Virginia. Her poems appear in the Southern Humanities Review, Atlanta Review, Salvation South, Kestrel, Meridian, Crab Orchard Review, and others. Her third poetry collection is Sweeping the Porch (Pine Row Press, 2026). She is poetry editor for Streetlight Magazine. Evening Creek A creek toward

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Poetry by Steve Lambert

Steve Lambert was born in Louisiana and grew up in Florida. His writing has appeared in Saw Palm, Tampa Review, Missouri Review, Louisiana Literature, New World Writing, The Pinch, Porchlight: A Journal of Southern Literature, Broad River Review, Cortland Review, and many other places. In 2018, he won Emrys Journal’

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Fiction by Trey White

Trey White is a 38-year-old living in Atlanta, Georgia. His work centers on everyday observations and life in the American South. This is his first publication. My Sage is a Lush My sage plant is lush. She is. She leads a hot n’ humid life in the container

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Fiction by Chella Courington

Chella Courington is a cis, bisexual woman born and raised in Southern Appalachia in a storytelling family who taught her how to value the word. Courington’s creative publications include one novel, one novella, several chapbooks of poetry and fiction, and poems and stories in journals and anthologies. Her fiction

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Fiction by Caleb Johnson

Caleb Johnson is the author of the novels, Telegraph Road (Hub City Press, August 2027) and Treeborne (Picador), which received an honorable mention for the Southern Book Prize and was longlisted for The Crook’s Corner Book Prize. He has been featured on the Emmy Award-winning television show TrueSouth.

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Fiction by Dwight Hinson

Dwight Hinson says, “My grandfather and my mother were both storytellers. When I was a kid, I used to soak up all that stuff like a sponge. I guess it marinated in me through adulthood. Finally, in retirement, I had the time to get it all out. I’d always

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Fiction by Ed Robson

Ed Robson grew up in Baton Rouge and earned his BS at LSU before moving to NC for grad school at UNC-CH. He spent 30 years practicing psychology in Winston-Salem, retired, moved to Conway, AR for his MFA at UCA, had a heart attack, got his groove back

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Fiction by Emily Blair

Emily Blair is a queer Appalachian poet and scholar. Originally from Fort Chiswell, Virginia, she now resides in Asheville, North Carolina, with her family. She has published poems in various places, a while ago; most recently, two of her poems are featured in Understory: An Anthology from the American South

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Poetry by Emma Galloway Stephens

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). Read more

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Poetry by Sarah Scarcliff

Sarah Scarcliff is an MFA candidate studying poetry at Arizona State University and serving as nonfiction editor for Hayden's Ferry Review. She is the author of the children's book, Pitanga, a story about frogs, deforestation, and what humans can do to mitigate the effects of climate

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Poetry by Merrill Lee Girardeau

Merrill Lee Girardeau lives in her hometown of Birmingham, Alabama. Merrill Lee received her MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and teaches English at the University of Alabama. In Public The afternoon had jittered away, wincing as if bitten. Storm clouds glowered over the oaks uptown, and the cafe’s coffee

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Novella by Steve Wick

Porchlight is proud to continue the American tradition of serialization by offering a novella, Mr. Wilson by Steve Wick. Following is the sixth and final installment.  Steve Wick is a journalist and writer living on eastern Long Island. His stories about the last farm labor camp in the region ran

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Fiction by Howard Marsee

Howard Marsee is a graduate of the University of Florida Law School where he was a law review editor and wrote news copy for his college radio station. He is now a Florida attorney, arbitrator, special magistrate, and mediator. He’s published three novels: Write Sorrow on the Bosom of

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Essay by Sara Shea

Sara Shea received her BA from Kenyon College, where she served as Student Associate Editor for The Kenyon Review. She's pursued graduate studies through the Great Smokies Writing Program at UNC Asheville and at Western Carolina University, where she studied with Ron Rash. Her work has appeared in

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Novella by Steve Wick

Porchlight is proud to continue the American tradition of serialization by offering a novella, Mr. Wilson by Steve Wick. Following is the fifth installment.  Steve Wick is a journalist and writer living on eastern Long Island. His stories about the last farm labor camp in the region ran as a

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Fiction by Samantha Vogt

Samantha Vogt is a writer from Louisiana. She has a BA in Humanities from Louisiana State University and an MA in English from the University of New Orleans, which shifted the focus of her stories onto the weird and forgotten corners of the South. When not writing, she can be