About this project
Steel Toe Review is an online literary magazine that features contemporary fiction and poetry. STR is based in Birmingham, Alabama, and gives special treatment to Southern writers and Southern themes, but it is open to any writing of quality. STR also publishes essays, plays, and creative non-fiction, as well as visual art.
The first issue of STR went online in November 2010. To celebrate our first year online, we are printing an anthology featuring the best pieces we've published so far. The anthology will also include illustrations by Birmingham artists. The impetus behind STR, generally, is to connect Birmingham writers and artists with a community of writers, artists, and like-minded people elsewhere. The print anthology will further that goal by, literally, putting our work in peoples' hands.
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M. David Hornbuckle is originally from Birmingham, Alabama. He has published many short stories in a wide variety of literary magazines, and he is the author of two books: The Salvation of Billy Wayne Carter (Tritone 2009) and Zen, Mississippi (Tritone 2010).
He has also been a bandleader and songwriter for more than twenty years, most notably with the groups PopCanon and the Dixieland Space Orchestra.
Hornbuckle has recently returned to Birmingham after many years in New York City. He works as a freelance writer and editor. He also leads the band Ghost Herd, is the managing editor of the Birmingham Free Press, and is the founding editor of the online literary journal Steel Toe Review.
