New literary journal China Grove launches August 28, and
will feature a previously unseen letter from Mark Twain regarding an
unpublished work called “The Great Republic’s Peanut Stand." The journal
will also feature an exclusive interview with Ellen Gilchrist, and a love
letter from Pulitzer Prize winner Eudora Welty to crime fiction writer Kenneth
Millar. The journal's name comes from the Eudora Welty short story, “Why I Live
at the P. O.” Edited by Dr. Scott Anderson, MD, and Dr. Luke Lampton, MD,
the journal will pair fiction from new writers alongside literary giants like
Twain. Anderson said: “Our goal is to give talented newcomers a chance to be
published next to legends, and to see the history of what it is they’ve chosen
to pursue as a vocation.” Two issues will be published in 2014, with
forthcoming issues running quarterly in subsequent years. Each issue will
feature an interview with a renowned Mississippi author. Submissions are
accepted for unpublished short fiction, poetry, and essays. The journal will
award two literary prizes: The Gilchrist Prize in Short Fiction given
biannually starting Fall 2014 with a prize of $2,000, and The China Grove Prize
in Poetry in 2015.
