1982-1986

Vickers piece accepted by Southern Living Ovid Vickers, a member of the faculty at East Central Junior College and columnist for the Union Appeal, has written an article which appears in the current issue of the magazine, Southern Living. Southern Living is published in Birmingham, Alabama, and although its main emphasis is on the South, the magazine has a national circulation. Vickers' article is titled "A Special Place" and recounts his experiences and observations in a drug store in a small South Georgia town. In 1952, during his first year as a teacher, he would spend time in the drug store, because the town did not have a movie, library, or recreation center. Besides writing a column for the Union Appeal, Vickers writes a weekly column for the Eastman, Georgia Times Journal. His articles, stories, and poems have appeared in such magazines and journals as ProgreMive Fanner, Georgia Life, The Mississippi Farm Cooperative News, The Texas Review, The Southern Quarterly, and Wordcraft. Because Southern Living maintains its own stable of staff writers and commissions their own articles, Vickers, who mailed his article to the magazine with the hope that it might be read by one of the editors, was particularly pleased when he was notified that the article had been accepted. In addition to the article in Southern Living, Vickers recently learned that he will have three poems included in a volume sponsored by the University of Mississippi and titl– ed New Miuissippi Writen. The book will be published by the University Press of Mississippi in November.

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