From Magnolias to Meth: Place in the Southern Short Story

• Crystal Wilkinson, she/her

  University of Kentucky

• Angela Mitchell, she/her

  Saint Louis University

• Stephanie Powell Watts

• Susan Finch, She/Her

  Belmont University

• Michael Croley

12:10 PM - 1:10 PM EST on Thursday, March 4
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The landscape of the South is radically different from the days of Faulkner and O'Connor. Both urban and rural settings have been impacted by immigration, class inequities, and shifting cultural values. In a world where travel and technology have blurred regional differences, what does it even mean to be "Southern"? Five writers seek to define and identify the expanding boundaries of the new south and discuss the impact these global markers have had on their Southern fiction.

• FICTION CRAFT & CRITICISM