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Everything We’ve Buried and Other Stories\u00a0<\/em>is the winner of the 2025 Converse MFA Alumni Book Prize.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In these nine stories, Kyler S. Campbell sets out to capture the southern imagination and experience. Characters deal with loss, family, faith, doubt, and poverty in both subtle and violent ways. Each character is wholly shaped by their environment and seeking redemption or understanding. In \u201cHow Will They Remember You?\u201d a father and son are drafted into the Civil War and wrestle with their own legacies and thirst for violence. \u201cEverything That We\u2019ve Buried\u201d follows a sheriff\u2019s deputy coming to terms with his own repressed rage after the wrongful death of his brother. \u201cFlood Lines\u201d depicts two girls exploring a flooded mall and their own experiences with faith. Finally, \u201cThe Last Dreamer\u201d is a paranormal southern gothic novella wherein a young boy is stalked by an ancient spirit as he comes to terms with his mother\u2019s recent suicide. These stories are love letters to the author’s own struggles, doubts, and triumphs. They are born out of the Low Country of South Carolina and seek to capture the beauty and tragedy of the southern experience.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":5821,"template":"","subject":[75,34],"browse_by_series":[30],"browse_by_imprints":[],"conference":[],"class_list":["post-5820","books","type-books","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","subject-fiction","subject-general-interest","browse_by_series-clemson-converse-lit-series"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books\/5820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/books"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books\/5820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5836,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books\/5820\/revisions\/5836"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subject?post=5820"},{"taxonomy":"browse_by_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/browse_by_series?post=5820"},{"taxonomy":"browse_by_imprints","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/browse_by_imprints?post=5820"},{"taxonomy":"conference","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.clemson.edu\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/conference?post=5820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}