CrossRoads: A Southern Culture Annual is a new publication dedicated to the interdisciplinary study and artistic appreciation of the South (broadly defined) and Southern culture. To appear spring 2004 and to be published annually thereafter by Mercer University Press, CrossRoads: A Southern Culture Annual will continue the editorial approach of CrossRoads: A Journal of Southern Culture, a semi-legendary periodical originally published in the early 1990s by a dedicated group of graduate students affiliated with the University of Mississippi’s Center for the Study of Southern Culture. The original periodical of CrossRoads featured previously unpublished material by many of the leading scholars and artists committed to interpreting and celebrating the South, including Rob Amberg, A. R. Ammons, Mary Ulmer Chiltosky, Jim Clark, James Dickey, Robert Drake, William Ferris, Ann Fisher-Wirth, Wayne Flynt, Ernest Gaines, David Galef, Eugene Genovese, Kathryn Gurkin, Alex Haley, Fred Hobson, David Huddle, Patricia Spears Jones, Jack Temple Kirby, Jeff Daniel Marion, Ed McClanahan, Walter McDonald, Ethelbert Miller, Robert Morgan, Marilyn Nance, Tom Rankin, John Shelton Reed, Sheryl St. Germain, Jon Michael Spencer, Joel Williamson, and Steve Young.

The first volume of CrossRoads: A Southern Culture Annual, slated for publication in April 2004, will feature new work by such scholars and artists as Kimberly Greene Angle, Ruth Knight Bailey, Brooks Blevins, Henry A. Buchanan, James E. Cherry, Mariea Caudill Dennison, G. Wayne Dowdy, Jo Angela Edwins, Bart Galloway, Allean Hale, M. Thomas Inge, Theresa Lloyd, Dorothy Hampton Marcus, Robert Morgan, Mendi Lewis Obadike, Kevin E. O’Donnell, James A. Perkins, Ron Rash, Randy Rudder, Jean-Mark Sens, Charles D. Thompson Jr., Jaclyn Weldon White, and Brenda Witchger. The scholarly work in the first volume of CrossRoads: A Southern Culture Annual explores such topics as Southern language, literature, visual art, music, and food, and elucidates Southern perspectives on religion, politics, race, ethnicity, gender, and regional identity. That volume will also contain compelling creative work from a number of leading writers and visual artists from the South.

To order copies of the first volume of CrossRoads: A Southern Culture Annual, please contact Mercer University Press via phone (toll free) at 800-637-2378, ext. 2880 or 800-342-0841, ext. 2880 (in GA), or via email at mupressorders@mercer.edu

CrossRoads: A Southern Culture Annual is currently seeking submissions for its second volume. These submissions can include—but are not limited to—analytical academic essays, oral histories, memoirs, profile essays, photo essays, creative writing, and artwork. The main criteria ensuring consideration for the inaugural issue—and for subsequent issues—are that all submitted materials should (to borrow Faulkner’s famous phrase) “tell about the South” and that they should do so memorably.

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Ted Olson, editor

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