In tandem with our special double issue New Southern Writing coming out later this year, the High Beams section of The Headlight Review is calling for a series of short meditations on specific southern experiences and how they inform your craft as a southern writer.
Why do you have an affection for a particular memento of your southern experience and how has that keepsake affected your craft as a southern author? Consider the categories below and send your submission via Submittable. Do you have a published piece of writing that this southern token inspired? If so, please include a link to the published piece in your submission. Please keep the meditations under one thousand words.
Send proposals and questions to headlightreview@gmail.com.
Photo Credit: Norma Barksdale
Click below to expand each craft token.
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Meditation on a particular place in the South
Can be a landscape and/or manmade establishment
Please include a photograph of the place in your submission
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Meditation on a particular southern food
Can be an entire meal or a side dish or a dessert
Please include a photo of the dish(es)
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Meditation on a piece of southern visual art
Can be a sculpture or painting or drawing or pottery or engraving or graffiti, etc.
Please include a photo of the art
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Meditation on a particular piece of southern music
Can be one song a certain instrument or singer
Please include a link to the recording or a photo of the instrument/musician/singer
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Meditation on a particular piece of southern clothing
Can be one article or an entire outfit
Please include a photo of the clothing
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Meditation on a particular person in the South
Can be someone you know personally or an icon
Please include a photo of the person
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Meditations on a particular garden plant in the South
Can be a flower or food crop or herb or tree
Please include a photo of the plant
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Meditation on a particular southern object
Can be a family heirloom or an artifact or a mundane object of everyday life
Please include a photo of the object
