A “Nobody’s Home” Retrospective, Five Years In

Though Nobody’s Home: Modern Southern Folklore went online in the summer of 2020, the anthology’s first essays were published on this day five years ago— January 15, 2021. Guinotte Wise’s “Come Together. Right Now.” came first, and it was followed that day by twelve more. Since then, there have been Open Submissions Periods – several back to back in 2020 and 2021, then annually beginning in 2022 – that have expanded the anthology to fifty-eight essays by forty-seven writers. There are also lesson plans, book and movie reviews, and my… Read more A “Nobody’s Home” Retrospective, Five Years In →