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SOREN LIT A Southern Renaissance literary journal... for storytellers with connections to the south. We showcase writers and artists who are women, femme-identifying, and/or non-binary creatives. The SOREN LIT podcast provides interviews, readings, and art reviews from our latest writers and artists. The podcast is hosted by SOREN LIT Founding Editor, Melodie J. Rodgers. SOREN LIT's published work and podcast episodes are also available on the official website: www.sorenlit.com
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SOREN LIT provides interviews, readings, and art reviews from creatives with connections to the lingering South. Produced by SOREN LIT Founding Editor, Melodie J. Rodgers. SOREN LIT's published work and podcast episodes are also available on the official website: www.sorenlit.com Episode: InnaRae- SOREN LIT. December. 2023 InnaRae’s work as a singe…
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The SOREN LIT podcast provides interviews, readings, and art reviews from our latest writers and artists. The podcast is produced by SOREN LIT Founding Editor, Melodie J. Rodgers. SOREN LIT's published work and podcast episodes are also available on the official website: www.sorenlit.com Cynthia Manick. SOREN LIT. Fall 2023. Cynthia Manick is the a…
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SOREN LIT: A Southern Renaissance literary journal... for storytellers with connections to the south. We showcase writers and artists who are women, femme-identifying, and/or non-binary creatives. The SOREN LIT podcast provides interviews, readings, and art reviews from our latest writers and artists. The podcast is hosted by SOREN LIT Founding Edi…
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SOREN LIT: A Southern Renaissance literary journal... for storytellers with connections to the south. We showcase writers and artists who are women, femme-identifying, and/or non-binary creatives. The SOREN LIT podcast provides interviews, readings, and art reviews from our latest writers and artists. The podcast is hosted by SOREN LIT Founding Edi…
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SOREN LIT: A Southern Renaissance literary journal... for storytellers with connections to the south. We showcase writers and artists who are women, femme-identifying, and/or non-binary creatives. The SOREN LIT podcast provides interviews, readings, and art reviews from our latest writers and artists. The podcast is hosted by SOREN LIT Founding Edi…
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SOREN LIT...A Southern Renaissance of women, femmes, and/or non-binary creatives exploring the lingering South... www.sorenlit.com SORENLIT. 2023. Lori Thomasson At age eight, Lori Thomasson created original stories and one-girl shows entertaining her friends and family. By age ten, however, several traumatic events would silence her for the next 2…
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SOREN LIT...A Southern Renaissance of women, femmes, and/or non-binary creatives exploring the lingering South... www.sorenlit.com SOREN LIT. 2023. Christy Petterson Christy Petterson is an artist and writer from Atlanta, GA. Since 2005, she has organized an award-winning craft market called the Indie Craft Experience, and since 2014 she's been a T…
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SOREN LIT. 2023. Raquel Battaglia. www.sorenlit.com Raquel Battaglia is an American southerner living ‘across the pond’ in the UK. She is a social psychologist by education and a hospice and palliative care researcher by job who uses writing to explore the qualitative nature of the human experience. Her poetry and flash fiction can be read in Fello…
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SOREN LIT. 2023. Anjali Enjeti Anjali Enjeti is a former attorney, organizer, journalist, and MFA instructor based near Atlanta. She is the author of Southbound: Essays on Identity, Inheritance, and Social Change, and The Parted Earth. Her other writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Harper’s Bazaar, Oxford American, and elsew…
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SOREN LIT...A Southern Renaissance of women, femmes, and/or non-binary creatives exploring the lingering South... www.sorenlit.com SOREN LIT. 2023. Karin Pendley Koser Karin Pendley Koser has been a writer the majority of her life since penning poetry for contests as a child to writing everything from journalistic TV features and articles to every …
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Sonia Leigh- SOREN LIT 2023 www.sorenlit.com SOREN LIT...A Southern Renaissance of women, femmes, and/or non-binary creatives exploring the lingering South... Sonia Leigh’s musical style cannot be put in a box. From Hip-Hop to Country to Pop and Rock and Roll. Her Southern Ground debut album, 1978 December, was where Leigh made her country catapult…
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SOREN LIT...A Southern Renaissance of women, femmes, and/or non-binary creatives exploring the lingering South... SOREN LIT. 2023: Verlena Johnson, MFA www.sorenlit.com Producer & Founding Editor: Melodie J. Rodgers, MFA Verlena L. Johnson was born in Chicago and grew up in Madison and Beloit Wisconsin. She earned a B.A. in Sculpture and a M.A. in …
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Emily Bilman, PhD is a poet-scholar who lives and writes Geneva, Switzerland. Her dissertation, The Psychodynamics of Poetry: Poetic Virtuality and Oedipal Sublimation in the Poetry of T.S. Eliot and Paul Valéry, with her poetry translations, was published by Lambert Academic in 2010 and Modern Ekphrasis in 2013 by Peter Lang, CH. Her poetry books,…
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SOREN LIT 2023- Sharon Daugherty www.sorenlit.com Sharon Daugherty is a Philadelphia born, Atlanta based painter and sketch artist. The self-taught artist uses abstract expressionism to examine and honor human experience and how we interact with our environments. Her subjects range from abstract portraits and human figures to urban and natural land…
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SOREN LIT 2022- Ilina Singh and Asha Leong (Mother & Daughter)
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SOREN LIT 2022- Ilina Singh and Asha Leong (Mother & Daughter) Ilina Singh has already lived several lifetimes. Ilina was born in Mathrua, India lived in Wellington, Aotearoa and currently lives in Wendell, MA. Ilina is a poet, lifelong journaler and has a MFA in Poetry from Bennington College. Ilina identifies as a feminist, lesbian and student of…
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SOREN LIT 2022- Glenis Redmond www.sorenlit.com SOREN LIT Editor: Melodie J. Rodgers, MFA Glenis Redmond is a performance poet, a Kennedy Center Teaching Artist, and a Cave Canem alumni. In October of this year, Glenis was selected to be the City of Greenville’s first poet laureate. She has authored six books of poetry: Backbone (Underground Epics,…
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Dr. Dionne Bates-SOREN LIT 2022 SOREN LIT: www.sorenlit.com D. Dionne Bates, PhD, LPC, CPCS is a licensed professional counselor in private practice who holds a B.A. in Sociology (with emphasis in deviant behavior), an M.A. in Counseling Psychology, and a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology. In clinical practice almost 20 years, Dr. Bates has observed tha…
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L. Marie Wood is an award-winning dark fiction author, screenwriter, and poet with novels in the psychological horror, mystery, and dark romance genres. She won the Golden Stake Award for her novel The Promise Keeper. She is a MICO Award nominated screenwriter and has won Best Horror, Best Action, Best Afrofuturism/Horror/Sci-Fi, and Best Short Scr…
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Pauletta Hansel- SOREN LIT 2022 Pauletta Hansel’s books include Friend, Coal Town Photograph and Palindrome, winner of the 2017 Weatherford Award for Appalachian poetry; Heartbreak Tree is forthcoming from Madville Publishing. Her writing was featured in Oxford American, Verse Daily and Poetry Daily. Pauletta was Cincinnati’s first Poet Laureate an…
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Mary O’Brien Fall/Winter 2022 Mary O’Brien is an artist, writer and poet. Her writing evolves out of her engagement with place. and community, and the research she develops for land art installations. Her non-fiction works delve into ecological loss and community resilience. She writes about political landscapes and our anthropocentric relationship…
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Ami Mattison- SOREN LIT Fall 2021 ISSUE Touring and performing professionally since 2002, Ami Mattison has been featured at various art venues, festivals, conferences, colleges, and universities across the US and Canada. In 2013, s/he was the recipient of the Fellowship of Southern Writers' Spoken Word Award. Acclaimed novelist, Dorothy Allison wri…
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Karma Bennett= SOREN LIT Fall Issue 2021 Karma Bennett lived in the South for two decades but has escaped to Oakland, CA. She is currently president of the Berkeley California Writers Club. Her most recent publication was in the book Collosus: Home, a collection to benefit Moms 4 Housing. She runs the website Subversas.com SOREN LIT Producer and Fo…
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Rosa Ponton- SOREN LIT FALL ISSUE 2021 Rosa Ponton is a Louisiana born Spanish Instructor for Grambling State and Southern Universities. She holds Bachelors' degrees in English and Spanish from Howard University, a Masters' degree in Spanish from Virginia Tech, a MFA in Creative Writing from Queens University, and is completing the last year of her…
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Karen Southall Watts- SOREN LIT 2021. FALL ISSUE Karen Southall Watts currently writes and works in the Pacific Northwest, where she lives with a chronic case of homesickness for friends and family in the South. Her flash fiction and poetry have been featured at Fairfield Scribes, Free Flash Fiction, The Drabble, Sledgehammer Lit, and 101Words. She…
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Debra Bowling- SOREN LIT FALL Issue 2021 Debra Bowling is the author of The Memory of Flight. She grew up in Northeast Alabama with a love of books and writing. After graduating from The University of Alabama with degrees in social work and criminal justice, she worked with issues such as domestic violence, runway teens, child abuse, and other area…
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Elliott Udoh- SOREN LIT FALL ISSUE 2021 Elliott Udoh, 14, attends The Webb School in Bell Buckle Tennessee. Elliott is a driven individual with a passion for social justice who strives to change the world through a combination of compassion and curiosity through the lens of their most authentic self. Elliott has been named an Atlanta Youth Poet Lau…
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Denise Berry-SOREN LIT FALL ISSUE 2021 Denise Berry currently has 20 years in public health administration and international humanitarian relief fundraising. She has also worked with CARE USA, Carter Presidential Center, and the Centers for Disease Control in International Health. Denise and her family has lived and worked in the US, Germany, and T…
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Carla Sameth- SOREN LIT FALL ISSUE 2021 Carla Sameth’s memoir, One Day on the Gold Line, was originally published July 2019 and will be reissued by Golden Foothills Press in 2022. Her Chapbook, What Is Left will be published by dancing girl press this November 2021. Her writing on blended/unblended, queer, multi-racial and single parent families ap…
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Laila Sokera Henderson- SOREN LIT Fall Issue 2021
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Laila Sokera Henderson- SOREN LIT Fall Issue 2021 Laila Sokera Henderson is an American poet, writer and actor of Nigerian descent. She is currently a university student, also working as a teaching artist in Atlanta, GA. She has served as one of Atlanta’s Youth Poet Laureate Ambassadors since 2017, and has competed in the international poetry slam …
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Kimberly Casey- SOREN LIT FALL ISSUE 2021
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Kimberly Casey- SOREN LIT FALL ISSUE 2021 Kimberly Casey was born and raised in Massachusetts, though she now calls Huntsville, Alabama home. She is the Founder and President of Out Loud Huntsville, a nonprofit organization dedicated to inspiring community outreach and activism through written and spoken word. Kimberly has competed at Southern Frie…
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Malika Hadley Freydberg- SOREN LIT Fall Issue 2021
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Malika Hadley Freydberg- SOREN LIT Fall Issue 2021 Malika Hadley Freydberg is a multi-medium performance and visual artist based in New Orleans, Louisiana. She’s a four time national slam poet, and has graced the final stage in two of those four competitions. She’s had a fascination with magick and Conjure Women since she read “Mama Day” by Gloria …
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Soniah Kamal- Fall Issue 2021, SOREN LIT Soniah Kamal is an award winning novelist, essayist and public speaker. Her most recent novel, Unmarriageable: Pride & Prejudice in Pakistan (Penguin Random House USA), a post colonial parallel retelling of Jane Austen’s classic, is a Financial Times Readers’ Best Book of 2019, received starred reviews in Pu…
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Danyelle Briggs- SOREN LIT Summer issue 2021
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Danyelle Briggs is a junior studying Public Relations and Politics at Oglethorpe University. This summer she is prepping for the publication for her first novel A Darker Hue of You. On campus, she is apart of ten organizations ranging from the cheerleading team to the robotics club. When she’s not writing, you can catch her reading novels and using…
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Shi Evans is a research/project assistant for the Sports and Race Initiative at the National Museum of African American History and Culture. She started writing after leaving the FBI to live in South Korea on military orders with her spouse. Shi draws on years of travel experience and meeting interesting people to write captivating stories. She wro…
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Ellen Birkett Morris- SOREN LIT Summer issue 2021
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Ellen Birkett Morris is the author of Lost Girls, a collection of short stories called "a varied set of tales from a skilled practitioner of the short form" by Kirkus Reviews. Her fiction has appeared in Shenandoah, Antioch Review, Notre Dame Review, South Carolina Review, and Santa Fe Literary Review, among other journals. She is a winner of the B…
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Tia King (she/they) is a 20 year old musician, creative writer, and teaching artist hailing from Atlanta, Georgia. She is an Atlanta Youth Poet Laureate Ambassador an well as Youth Speaks’ 2018 MC Olympian, as awarded to her by Brave New Voices International Festival and Poetry Slam. Her work has been published by VOX Teen Communications and in Ogl…
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Arden Eli Hill- SOREN LIT Summer issue 2021
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Arden Eli Hill is a genderqueer (he or they) white writer from Louisiana. To preorder a copy of Bloodwater Parish (an exploration of gender, sexuality, race, and adoption in poems) forthcoming from Seven Kitchen's press, please email Arden at Arden@ardenelihill.com. Arden's recent and forthcoming publications include Hip Mama, Trans Bodies Trans Se…
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Ariana Francesca Thomas- SOREN LIT Summer issue 2021
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Ariana Francesca Thomas- SOREN LIT Summer issue 2021 Ariana Francesca is a Black, mother poet of the Deep South, born and raised in Jonesboro, Georgia. Her work explores the positions, reflections, and interconnectedness of Black motherhood, womanhood, spirit and epic memory. With roots as a performance poet, Ariana’s work has been featured at The …
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Courtney LeBlanc- SOREN LIT Summer issue 2021
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Courtney LeBlanc- SOREN LIT Summer issue 2021 Courtney LeBlanc is the author of the full length collections Exquisite Bloody, Beating Heart (Riot in Your Throat, July 2021), Beautiful & Full of Monsters (Vegetarian Alcoholic Press, March 2020), The Violence Within (Flutter Press, 2018, currently out of print), and All in the Family (Bottlecap Press…
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Khalisa Rae is a poet and journalist in Durham, NC that speaks with furious rebellion. She is the author of Ghost in a Black Girl's Throat (Red Hen Press 2021). Her essays are featured in Autostraddle, Catapult, LitHub, as well as articles in B*tch Media, NBC-BLK, and others. Her poetry appears in Frontier Poetry, Florida Review, Rust & Moth, PANK,…
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Brooke Dupree- SOREN LIT Summer issue 2021
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Brooke Dupree is a future memoirist and an English instructor at Greenville Technical College in Greenville, South Carolina where her passion is teaching entry level reading and composition. Brooke has a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of South Carolina, a Masters in Writing from Coastal Carolina University, and an MFA in Creative …
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Leslie Peterson- SOREN LIT Summer issue 2021
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SOREN LIT Podcast- Summer issue 2021. www.sorenlit.com Podcast Host and Founding Editor, Melodie J. Rodgers Leslie Peterson Leslie Peterson grew up in rural middle Georgia, and lives there still, working for a local non-profit and trifling occasionally with poetry and stories. When she's not working or writing, she can be found wrangling a plethora…
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SOREN LIT Podcast- Episode #3 Podcast Host & Founding Editor, Melodie J. Rodgers Aanika Eragam - Summer Issue 2021 Aanika Eragam is a rising senior at Milton High School in Milton, Georgia. She is the 2021 Atlanta Youth Poet Laureate, and her work has been recognized by the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, Bennington College, and the Vermont Colleg…
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Dr Shanna Greene Benjamin- SOREN LIT Summer Issue 2021
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SOREN LIT Summer Issue 2021: www.sorenlit.com SOREN LIT Podcast Host and Founding Editor, Melodie J. Rodgers Episode#1- Shanna Greene Benjamin Shanna Greene Benjamin is a biographer and scholar who studies the literature, lives, and archives of Black women. Dr. Benjamin earned her Ph.D. in English and M.A. in Afro-American Studies from the Universi…
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GREETINGS! Welcome to the SOREN LIT Podcast!
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Welcome to the SOREN LIT Podcast! Meet Host and Founding Editor, Melodie J. Rodgers. Get updates on all things SOREN LIT! www.sorenlit.com Twitter: @LitSoren Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sorenlit Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sorenlit/
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