Stories and Essays
by Karen Luke Jackson
Online
"Songlines." Nobody's Home: Modern Southern Folklore. June 15, 2021.
"Sweet Fruit." Reckon Review. March 8, 2021.
“Bull’s Eye View.” Town Magazine. Vol.8, No.2 (January 31, 2018), pp. 82-83.
“Snapshot.” The Great Smokies Review. Fall 2012, Issue 7.
Podcast
"GRIT." 6-minute Stories. Personal Story Publishing Project. Winston-Salem, NC: Daniel Boone Footsteps. November 21, 2020.
"Casket Shopping." 6-minute Stories. Personal Story Publishing Project. Winston-Salem, NC: Daniel Boone Footsteps. July 22, 2020.
"Casket Shopping." That Southern Thing ed. by Randell Jones. Winston-Salem, NC: Daniel Boone Footsteps, 2020.
“Home Place.” Pisgah Review, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 106-109.
“Inheritance.” Emrys Journal. Vol 35, 2018, pp. 83-89.
“Our Parents are Not Our Own.” It’s All Relative: Tales from the Tree from 50 WNC Women Writers, ed. by Celia H. Miles & Nancy Dillingham. Asheville, NC: Stone Ivy Press, 2015, pp. 147-151.
“Dotted Lines.” moonShine Review. Fall 2012. Vol. 8: Issue 2, pp. 61-62.
“Nighttime Ritual.” Exit 109: A Poetry & Prose Anthology. 2009. Fayetteville, NC: Old Mountain Press, p. 71
“Are You Ready?” Voices and Visions: A Collection of Writings by and about Empowered Women. 2008. Hickory, NC: Women’s Resource Center, pp. 41-42.
“Elves for Santa.” Christmas Presence, ed. by Celia H. Miles & Nancy Dillingham. Catawba Press, 2008, pp. 167-170.
“New Bearings.” Hungryhearts, Pilgrimage and Place. Winter, 2008. 17:1, 14.
“The Royal Singing Convention, 1893-1931: Shape Note Singing Tradition in Irwin County, Georgia.” Georgia Historical Quarterly, 56, 495-509.
Awards
“Love Without Strings.” Unpublished. Honorable Mention for Spiritual Nonfiction Prize, Ruminate Summer, 2016.