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Hank Cotton
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The Frogs of Delmore County
A Porch Story
 • primalbeet
Whistlepigs
Grace found Norman Deavors on page forty-seven of the Southern Standard, wedged between an ad for an Asheville estate jeweler and a recipe for persimmon…
 • primalbeet
15:35
An Old Mexico Reading Attempt
Grace & MJ are ghosted by Hank
 • MJ Polk and Gray
Old Mexico
By Hank Cotton
 • MJ Polk
31:47
Killing Kenny
A Chat With Canary Vale
 • primalbeet and Canary Vale
Corn Is A Good Thang
Farm to Table
 • MJ Polk
46:24
Healing through Opera Rose, Following the Strays, Running with the Bulls
A conversation about where stories come from—and where The Southern Writers Guild goes next.
 • primalbeet and MJ Polk
Dinner on the Grounds
The French Broad river is older than the mountains it moves through.
 • primalbeet
Opera Rose
from Opera Rose and Other Devotions by G.L. Merritt
 • Gray
1:06:50
Porch Talkn Good Boy Records
MJ interviews Colin Gillman of Good Boy Records
 • MJ Polk, Good Boy Records, and primalbeet
Southern Writers Guild
Southern Writers Guild
We are the Southern Writers’ Guild: a deliberate assembly of stubborn scribes—poets, novelists, essayists, playwrights, songwriters—who stake our claim on this tangled South, by blood or by choice or by some inexplicable pull that won’t let go.
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Long Live the ABB: Conversation from the Crossroads
Long Live the ABB: Conversation from the Crossroads
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