Submissions Open for Southern Scrapbook

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.

• Post Cards

  • 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

• Recipe Cards

  • 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)

• Color Pallettes

  • 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

• Sheet Music

  • 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

• Sewing Patterns

  • Meditation on a particular piece of southern clothing

  • Can be one article or an entire outfit

  • Please include a photo of the clothing

• Portraits

  • Meditation on a particular person in the South

  • Can be someone you know personally or an icon

  • Please include a photo of the person

• Seed Packets

  • 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

• Junk Drawer

  • 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