Another Batch of New Works in “Nobody’s Home”

For Immediate Release
August 1, 2024

Nobody’s Home will publish three new works!

On August 10, 2024, the online anthology Nobody’s Home: Modern Southern Folklore is adding three new works of creative nonfiction by writers in the South. With a focus on the beliefs, myths, and narratives in Southern culture during the five-plus decades since 1970, these new works constitute the anthology’s fifth expansion.

The three contributors are Margaret Donovan Bauer, DeLane Phillips, and Pilar DiPietro, each of whom have had essays published in the anthology previously. Set in Tennessee and Louisiana, Bauer’s essay discusses gender roles and relationships in the 1980s. Phillips’s essay is set in the early 1970s and looks back at her mother’s habits as a homemaker. DiPietro tells us about a visit to a healing springs in rural South Carolina.

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 Submissions Period for creative nonfiction will begin in April 2025, though reviews and interviews will be considered year-round.

The newly published works will be rolled out on social media on Saturday, August 10, and can also be accessed on the Index page later that day.