Another Batch of New Works in “Nobody’s Home”
For Immediate Release
August 8, 2023
Nobody’s Home will publish four new works!
On Thursday, August 17, the online anthology Nobody’s Home: Modern Southern Folklore is adding four new works of creative nonfiction by writers from the South. With a focus on the beliefs, myths, and narratives in Southern culture during the five-plus decades since 1970, these new works accepted for the anthology’s expansion discuss transformations and our youth, extended family and sense of place, returning home after being away, and the blues in Mississippi, respectively.
The four contributors are Margaret Donovan Bauer, Kelly Gerow, Rhienna Guedry, and Peter Wortsman. Bauer has had two essays published in the anthology previously: “For an Athlete Dying Young” and “Purple Birds.” The forthcoming essay will be her third contribution. Gerow’s contribution enriches the anthology’s discussion of Virginia by discussing her family and how she determines where “home” is. Guedry’s essay was previously published, as was Peter Wortsman’s. Both bring us to the Deep South, with Guedry examining her return home to Louisiana and Wortsman telling us about a research trip in rural Mississippi.
Editor Foster Dickson is proud to offer these additional essays that center on beliefs, myths, and narratives in the modern South. To learn more about the project, its focus, and its goals, you can read Foster’s introduction to the project “Myths are the truths we live by,” or other posts in his editor’s blog Groundwork. Writers who are still interested in adding their own voices to the anthology should read the submission guidelines to find out how to submit. The next open reading period for creative nonfiction will begin in April 2024, though reviews and interviews will be considered year-round.
The newly published works will be rolled out on social media on Thursday, August 17 and can also be accessed on the Index page later that evening.
For those writers who may still want to submit, there will be an open submissions period in the spring 2024, and I will continue to look at submissions of reviews and interviews year-round.
