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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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    Newspaper to Substack Editor & Consultant--offering clients Proofreading, Copy-editing, and Developmental-editing services. But I'm not your average copywriter. I have a passion for writing both Fiction and Creative Non-fiction. aka- Hank Cotton

  • primalbeet

    Writer, musician, and feral philosopher. I craft poetry, short fiction, rogue songs, and offbeat truths from the crossroads of weird and wonder. Refined for public use, but still a little wild under the hood.

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    "I always knew I could never change the world But was hoping that I could Detour yours for a little while To collide with mine" Harriet Corvine

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    Gen X writer with a fake name—roamin’ the Dirty South with incense prayers & mixtape ghosts. Sometimes fiction, always true: stories stitched from kudzu, cigar boxes, found faith, & the ridiculocity of having raised ourselves.

  • Canary Vale

    Nothing here is meant to fix you. Only to see you. I hold up the mirror. You decide what’s beautiful about the damage. \ud83c\udfc6Featured by American Songwriter

  • Good Boy Records

    I write songs and about the life around making them. Good Boy Records is my song journal. Grooves & Gravy is the writing. I release music as Chip Martini. Please don’t ask why. It made sense at the time.

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