Congratulations to Mary Jo Brown on earning first place in fiction for her short story, Rejected, in the 2025 Sassafras Literary Adult Writing Contest! Here is her entry: Rejected August 8, 1838 Sanderstown, GA – Cherokee Nation East “Come, William, you can do it.” Salina James knelt by the wood stove, encouraging the wobbly toddler …
Congratulations to Lora Bunch Carr on earning first place in Nonfiction for her story, Watermelon Patch Sittin’, in the 2025 Sassafras Literary Adult Writing Contest! Here is her entry: Watermelon Patch Sittin’ A Short Story About My Appalachian Grandparents Pawpaw and I shared a loved for watermelons. He had a section of the garden where …
Congratulations to Lynn Kaiser Conrad on earning first place in poetry for her poem, Tropical Depression, in the 2025 Sassafras Literary Adult Writing Contest! Here is her winning entry: Tropical Depression Through weather worn spindles, light and shadow create a parallel pattern, awash with sea spray, as ocean waves bloat, with off-shore storm, rumpled rolling …
Sassafras Literary brought back the adult writing contest for 2025! Pickens County writers submitted their original work in Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry. First, we’d like to thank the Pickens Arts and Cultural Alliance for the grant that funded these efforts. We’d also like to thank authors Helen Pitts Bradley, Jessica Nettles, and Mandy Lewis Cantrell …
