The inaugural award of the Gilchrist Prize in Short Fiction goes to Alyce Miller for her story Missing.  It is included in Issue #3 of China Grove. Buy it now!

I’m not going to start off with the pretense that this is an unbiased review. I have long thought Gilchrist to be one of the most talented writers of the second pantheon of Southern writers. She stood alongside the likes of Willie Morris, Walker Percy, Shelby Foote, and Barry Hannah and she more than held […]

Merry Christmas from China Grove, Mississippi!!!

Great conference in Oxford over the weekend Neil White did a great job and is a great guy. Lots of good contacts and hope to receive some interesting submissions to pass on to our readers in coming issues. I felt that since there is the Gilchrist Prize for Short Fiction and the China Grove Prize […]

I have been absorbed in re-reading much of Ellen Gilchrist’s work in preperation for our interview this coming weekend. I spoke to her last week and she was telling me that a friend had suggested she read the play “Red” by John Logan and that she had read it repeatedly over the past few days. […]

Well here we are. On the brink of 2013. Luke and I are heading down to Ocean Springs this weekend to do an interview with Ellen Gilchrist for the premier issue of China Grove. I’m very excited about this. She is arguably the greatest living author of Mississippi origin. All right I know there are […]