Lectures For Lifelong Learners!

This compelling lecture explores Grit Lit—a raw, unflinching literary subgenre that has attracted a wide readership and become the new face of the literary South. We’ll explore some of its key themes and how Southern women writers are expanding the boundaries of the subgenre with fearless storytelling. This is not the world of Southern Belles and sweet Magnolias, but of survival and resilience. With stories that are bold and undeniably brave—these Southern women are rewriting the South one hard-won sentence at a time.