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Non-Fiction
Book Review: The Curators by Maggie Nye
May 29, 2024
In 1913, Leo Frank, superintendent of the National Pencil Company in Atlanta, Georgia, was found guilty of the murder of Mary Phagan, a thirteen-year-old factory worker. Less than two years later, after Frank’s death sentence was commuted to life in […]
Non-Fiction
Reader Spotlight: Joanna Theiss
February 23, 2024
"Reading for Five South has made me appreciate how many writers are out there, sharing themselves on the page. It makes me feel less alone as a writer."
Non-Fiction
Spreading Light: An Interview with Bradley Sides by Joanna Theiss
February 16, 2024
Ghosts, monsters, and falling celestial bodies mingle with the all-too-real in Bradley Sides’ new short story collection, Crocodile Tears Didn’t Start the Flood (Montag Press, 2024). In “Claire & Hank,” a boy grieves his father while struggling to care for […]
Fiction
A Species of Least Concern by Joanna Theiss
September 9, 2020