Red Dirt Forum is an online publication that features contemporary voices of the Southern United States. Genres include poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Author interviews by publisher query only. RDF is also dedicated to highlighting themes of social justice as they interface with the New South. Work is published bimonthly; submissions are accepted year round.
Submission Guidelines:
To be eligible to submit work, authors must be age eighteen or older. Work may not be submitted by third parties. Simultaneously submitted work is allowed. Yet contact us promptly if work is accepted elsewhere.
Send submissions to [email protected] and state in the header that this is a submission for RDF. Attach work in Word format, not PDF, and include full name and email information. Three poems, two prose pieces, maximum. If we wish to see more, we will let you know. Include a brief author bio.
The Music issue includes work by George Perrault, Rajashree Koppolu, Susan Zurenda, Alec Solomita and others.
Issue three contains works by Fred Chappell, Joseph Bathanti, Julia Nunnally Duncan, Yasser El-Sayed, Bruce Craven, and others.
This issue includes music lyrics and an interview with Shawna Russell, an author interview with Lara Bernhardt, poetry and prose by Nancy Dillingham, Carl Sennhenn, Suzanne Hudson, John Dorroh, Patricia Taylor, Joe Formichella, William Bernhardt, and others.
This inaugural issue includes music lyrics by StumbleEast bandmates Kevin Hall and Jay Tracy, poetry and prose by William Bernhardt, Vaibhav Saini, Julia Nunnally Duncan, and others.