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Wade Livingston

@WadeGLivingston

Wade Livingston is an occasional freelance writer based in Savannah, Georgia. He's previously worked as a reporter at the Island Packet and Beaufort Gazette (Bluffton, South Carolina), the Charleston (West Virginia) Gazette-Mail and the Columbia Missourian. A graduate of the Missouri School of Journalism, Livingston also holds degrees from Western Carolina University and Clemson University.

Lessons in good writing from the love of a good dog

Lessons in good writing from the love of a good dog

As a man grieves his dog, he argues that the best writing is as much about the feeling as it is about the words
April 13, 2022
Authenticity and imagery in songwriting, outlaw country style

Authenticity and imagery in songwriting, outlaw country style

Fred introduced me to Jerry Jeff Walker — by that, I mean that Fred sent me home, from the Lone Star State, with two purple CDs, one of which shimmered…
October 27, 2020
John Prine would want us to feel real life today, and write it with feeling every day

John Prine would want us to feel real life today, and write it with feeling every day

It’s 4:08 a.m. EST on Wednesday, April 8,  as I type this, and John Prine has been dead for too long.Like many of you, I went to bed a few…
April 8, 2020
In Search of the ‘Southern Voice’

In Search of the ‘Southern Voice’

When I was a child, my father would sometimes mention The Great Southern Novel he’d always wanted to write.I remember the protagonist as a poor, small-town man who’d somehow made…
December 16, 2015