Essays by Jason Sanford
- Who Wears Short Shorts? Micro Stories and MFA Disgust
(Published in the fall 2004 issue of storySouth)
- Ageless Arts
An exploration of art, archeology, and human history. This essay won the first Magnificent Magnolia essay contest. (Published in the fall 2003 issue of storySouth)
- Weeping for Wallace
A study of George Wallace, southern politics, and one of the greatest women I ever knew—my Aunt Katie Crow.
(Published in the fall 2002 issue of storySouth)
- Radio Wave Ethics and Back-Woods Beatings
A study of violence and friendship in the south.
(Published in the winter 2004 issue of storySouth)
- Returning Insight to Storytelling: Science, Stories, and Loren Eiseley
A look at storytelling as seen through the writings of Loren Eiseley.
(Published in the winter 2003 issue of storySouth)
- Not So Posh Corps
An humorous look at my less-than-hardship posting as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Thailand
(Published in the summer 2004 issue of storySouth)
- Casting the Artist: Allen Peterson and Cast-Iron Sculpture
A look at the life and work of a caste-iron sculpture.
(Published in the spring 2002 issue of storySouth)
- World's Smallest Essay on the Coming Miniaturization of Literature
Is this what the world of literature has come to? In addition, be sure to read Jim Booth's response to this essay, Literary Minutiae at the Present Time. (And yes, the writers are aware that the spellings of minutiae and minutia in these essays don't match. Such is life and the preferences of different dictionaries.) (published in the spring 2003 issue of storySouth)
- How to expose new writers: online versus print magazines
Why online magazines give more exposure to new writers
(published in the winter 2002 issue of storySouth)
- Porn: The Most Popular Fiction on the Web
The truth about online stories!
(published in the spring 2002 issue of storySouth)
- Digging the Human Condition (Truths from an Out-of-Work Archeologist)
Archeology and the search for truth (and a job).
(Published in the summer 2003 issue of storySouth)
- Where is the South in Southern Literature?
What does it mean to be southern in today's world?
(Published in the summer 2002 issue of storySouth)
- Fiction and Biographies
There is more to fiction than just having a good author bio.
(Published in the fall 2001 issue of storySouth)
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Jason Sanford is a former senior editor with Meadowbrook Press, a commercial publishing company distributed by Simon & Schuster. He's also worked as the director of programs at SASE: The Write Place, a non-profit literary organization in Minneapolis. He is the winner of a Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowship and his stories have been published in magazines such as the Mississippi Review, Beloit Fiction Journal, Ache Magazine, and Pindeldyboz. He also writes children's stories and has published them in the book anthologies Girls to the Rescue and Newfangled Fairy Tales, in Youthline USA, and in READ, a reading magazine for kids published by Weekly Reader.
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