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CrossRoads: A Southern Culture Annual is a new publication dedicated
to the interdisciplinary study and artistic appreciation of the South
(broadly defined) and Southern culture. Published as an annual book by
Mercer University Press, CrossRoads: A Southern Culture Annual will
continue the editorial approach of CrossRoads: A Journal of Southern
Culture, a semi-legendary periodical originally published in the early
1990s by a dedicated group of graduate students affiliated with the
University of Mississippi's Center for the Study of Southern Culture. The
original periodical version of CrossRoads featured previously unpublished
material by many of the leading scholars and artists committed to
interpreting and celebrating the South, including Rob Amberg, A. R. Ammons,
Mary Ulmer Chiltosky, Jim Clark, James Dickey, Robert Drake, William Ferris,
Ann Fisher-Wirth, Wayne Flynt, Ernest Gaines, David Galef, Eugene Genovese,
Kathryn Gurkin, Alex Haley, Fred Hobson, David Huddle, Patricia Spears
Jones, Jack Temple Kirby, Jeff Daniel Marion, Ed McClanahan, Walter
McDonald, Ethelbert Miller, Robert
The first volume of CrossRoads: A Southern Culture Annual, published in June
2004, offers new work by such scholars and artists as Kimberly Greene Angle,
Brooks Blevins, Henry A. Buchanan, James E. Cherry, Mariea Caudill Dennison,
G. Wayne Dowdy, Jo Angela Edwins, Bart Galloway, Allean Hale, M. Thomas Inge,
Dorothy Hampton Marcus, Robert Morgan, Mendi Lewis Obadike, James A.
Perkins, Ron Rash, Randy Rudder, Jean-Mark Sens, Charles D. Thompson Jr.,
Jaclyn Weldon White, and Brenda Witchger. The second volume of CrossRoads:
A Southern Culture Annual, to be published by Mercer University Press in
the summer of 2005, will similarly feature fascinating, accessible scholarly
works that explore a wide range of topics (including Southern literature,
music, food, and "sense of place") and that elucidate Southern perspectives
on religion, politics, race, ethnicity, gender, education, and regional
identity. As in Volume One, Volume Two of CrossRoads will contain new,
compelling To order copies of the first and/or second volumes of CrossRoads: A Southern Culture Annual, please contact Mercer University Press via phone (toll free) at 800-637-2378, ext. 2880 or 800-342-0841, ext. 2880 (in GA), or via email at mupressorders@mercer.edu DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: CrossRoads: A Southern Culture Annual is currently seeking submissions for its third volume. These submissions can include-but are not limited to-analytical academic essays, oral histories, memoirs, profile essays, photo essays, creative writing, and artwork. The main criteria ensuring consideration are that all submitted materials should (to borrow Faulkner's famous phrase) "tell about the South" and that they should do so memorably. To have your work considered for the third volume of CrossRoads: A Southern Culture Annual, you may send materials postmarked before June 30, 2005, to:
Ted Olson, Editor Please include disposable copies of manuscripts. Submissions will not be returned. Should you have any questions, you may contact the editor:
423-439-4379 (tel)
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