cassandra cain, the novelist was the preacher's wife and that's the role she was supposed to play. she was supposed to help with the newsletter and be always properly dressed and attractive to be the perfect lovely wife. she realized she had a lot more that she needed to say and it couldn't be said in the newsletter. if you should be set in the novel. she reclaimed that part of herself that was like as a free, open child she writes about good she comes back to freedom and wildness as a child begins to read her room story. not the story she supposed to be writing quite telling. several of our contributors did come from this area, from alabama. we have jeannie thompson who is a poet, this might downgrade from the vicki covington who also was from birmingham. so we did draw on the alabama literary community that we knew and then we had authors from all over the southeast in addition to that. i think you could say that pretty much all of them to start out of the conventional name string religious tradition that there were a of felt some pushback. you know, it might be what you consider