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The Southern Review @southernreview.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Submissions are now open for fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and translation. For guidelines and to submit your work, visit: www.thesouthernreview.org/submissio…

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The Southern Review @southernreview.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

OUT NOW: Our Summer 2026 issue features fiction by Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry, Peter Orner, and María Luisa Puga; poetry by Denise Duhamel, Cate Lycurgus, and Matt Minicucci; nonfiction by Ernie Wang; artwork by Calder Kamin; and much more. Get your copy here: bit.ly/tsrsummer26

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The Southern Review @southernreview.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Our Summer 2026 issue is coming soon. Pre-order yours here: bit.ly/tsrsummer26

The cover of The Southern Review Summer 2026 issue, featuring a colorful fox made from recycled materials by artist Calder Kamin.

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The Southern Review @southernreview.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

"New Stories from the South 2026," the newly revived anthology by Blair, will feature "Tonopah" by Mesha Maren, which was published in our Spring 2025 issue. The anthology is now available for pre-order: bit.ly/4nF2LGy

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Split Lip Magazine @splitlipthemag.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

We love to see it: Senior Assistant Fiction Editor @isleofanalia.bsky.social published a story in @southernreview.bsky.social! 😍 And you can catch her interview right here. buff.ly/uPLmVx9

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The Southern Review @southernreview.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

"Cindy Tran: From Here to Here," a short film about poet Cindy Tran's life and work, contains an excerpt from "Blank Verse," which first appeared in our spring 2024 issue and was later included in The Best American Poetry 2025. Stream it now on PBS American Masters: bit.ly/4uqhuHm

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Simeon Berry @simeonberry.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

“Mrs. Floyd Baumgardner, our skunk-haired / Daughters of the Confederacy bibliophile, / clipped genitalia throughout the Renaissance” —Rodney Jones, “Nudes” @southernreview.bsky.social

NUDES. 1. I was not more than five. A girl in the fields had shown me what girls have down there, but only a glimpse before our parents were around us with their hoes, so for all the years of childhood and on into adolescence, I had only that one clue, and nothing to do with it but read, pouring myself into the classics, prying at the boulders of titles that seemed apt. The Secret Garden? The Anatomy of Melancholy? In the glass office at the back of the stacks, Mrs. Floyd Baumgardner, our skunk-haired Daughters of the Confederacy bibliophile, clipped genitalia throughout the Renaissance while I glossed our badly printed local daily. The buxom starlets in the drive-in ads, when I looked closely, would turn to dots. 2. The power to shock is a quality of modesty.

An ex-Jesuit took me to my first titty bar. I wanted vision. Also, I wanted to chat. “My name is Fancy,” she said, “and I am going to dance for you.” Well, that is what they do down here, coming to the pink verge without ever shedding that last ribbon of flimsy silk, that sequined picket line of smiling evangelists, which is their only raiment and fashion. But where did she come from, and how to this end, a grown woman in a black string, not bad looking, from what I could see, with good bones, and the actual breasts. When I asked her last name, she said, “Strawberries.” 3. Eve, Helen of Troy, Mary, then Fatima: the oldest man at the bachelor party, I am not so old that I do not remember. When she pranced out in the letter sweater, it was eighth grade again, the day of the test on South America, the day of the night of the county basketball finals when Sally, the sprite a desk ahead of me,

would leap bountifully in her great cheer and leap also in the fantasy life, making the names of the rivers all run together. 4. The lap dancer’s dress-up nudity is a doll. Geisha. Self-artifice. Professional candor. The way the stereotypical male poet’s penis is a feathered quill or mechanical pencil and he’s rewriting Hansel and Gretel. Also, she’s childhood’s fate whispering, “Rodney, don’t you remember me? Michelle. We met at Ron’s.” I don’t. But blush a blush that evolves from John Calvin, and watch her squirm. Part Mata Hari, part alma mater, her straddling act camouflages some chatter about her newest daughter. Her privates against mine like that, young men watching. Such is fame. Rodney Jones

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Rita Chang-Eppig (she/they) @rchetypes.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Really thankful to @southernreview.bsky.social for publishing my story "Florida" in their spring issue. Special thanks to @sachaidell.bsky.social for his edits and for believing in the piece. Pick up a physical or digital copy here! thesouthernreview.org/issues/detai...

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The Southern Review @southernreview.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

TSR is back! Our Spring issue features fiction by Rita Chang-Eppig (she/they), Chris McCormick, and Pablo Piñero Stillmann; poetry by Pablo Armando Fernández, Haesong Kwon, and Mary Jo Salter; nonfic by Heather Aruffo and julie ae kim, art by Tia Keobounpheng; and more. bit.ly/tsrspring26

Cover of The Southern Review Spring 2026 issue featuring three abstract colorful geometric artworks with overlapping circles and radial patterns, flanked by more artwork from the issue and a list of featured authors.

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The Southern Review @southernreview.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

To all of our Giving Day supporters: Thank you so much for your generosity. Our #LSUGivingDay26 campaign raised more than $33,000 from 32 donors! Our profound gratitude to everyone who donated to support the future of LSU Press and The Southern Review. We couldn’t do what we do without you.

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The Southern Review @southernreview.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

Thank you so much for your support so far this Giving Day. Please help us surpass our donor goal of 25 and unlock a $2,000 challenge gift from David and Trisha Cook by contributing any amount to a fund of your choice! Be one of ten donors before 6 p.m. to help us meet this goal! bit.ly/tsrgivingday

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The Southern Review @southernreview.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

LSU Giving Day is one day away! Tomorrow, we humbly ask you to consider donating to our journal. We'll announce a very special challenge gift in the morning. Stay tuned. For more on how your generosity can make an impact, please check out our Giving Day page: bit.ly/tsrgivingday

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Katherine Argent @katherineargent.com · 01/03/2026

Lovely serendipity to sumble on @toddedillard.bsky.social’s poem in @southernreview.bsky.social on this quiet Sunday morning as I catch up on journal reading.

closeup of a page from the Winter 2026 edition of The Southern Review featuring Todd Dillard’s poem, “After a Few Beers, My Uncle Asks Me How”

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The Southern Review @southernreview.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Going to #AWP26? Please join us at Booth 836, where we'll be selling copies of our most recent issues. If you buy a subscription to the Southern Review, we'll throw in a free shirt! (While supplies last.)

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Michelle Orsi @michelleorsi.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

A bit late on this— but I have a poem out in the Winter issue of The Southern Review! @southernreview.bsky.social

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LSU Press @lsupress.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Going to AWP? Please join us for this offsite reading featuring @uwiscpress.bsky.social and @upittpress.bsky.social! Reading for LSU Press will be James Davis May and Chelsea Rathburn, while Arao Ameny and Ryan Teitman will represent @southernreview.bsky.social.

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The Southern Review @southernreview.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

We'd like to congratulate our former coeditor and prose editor, Emily Nemens, on the publication of her latest novel, "Clutch." Nemens will be returning to Louisiana in April to read at the Delta Mouth Literary Festival in BR and Garden District Book Shop in NOLA. We can't wait to see you, Emily!

The book cover of "Clutch" by Emily Nemens, which features a woman in a white dress lying flat on the ground against a plain background.

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The Southern Review @southernreview.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Every year, The Southern Review rewards our writers for outstanding work. Congratulations to the recipients of our 2025 awards: Mesha Maren, Debbie Urbanski, Bridget Lowe, Antonella Lettieri, Seán McDonagh, and Joshua Bennett. For a full list of the winning pieces, visit: bit.ly/tsrawards25

A list of 2025 winners for the Oran Robert Perry Burke Awards and James Olney Award with names under each category.

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Patrick Kindig @pdkindig.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Really, truly thrilled to have a little prose poem in the latest issue of @southernreview.bsky.social; it's about "outdoor dogs" (i.e., dogs that live permanently outside), a phenomenon I had never encountered before moving to rural Texas.

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The Southern Review @southernreview.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Our winter 2026 issue, out now, features three poems from Sharon Olds; fiction from Ladee Hubbard; artwork from Gabriel Isak; a short story from Miroslav Penkov, who published his debut in The Southern Review twenty years ago; and much more. Explore the issue here: bit.ly/tsrwinter26

Cover of The Southern Review winter 2026 issue featuring a figure with long white hair facing away, framed by dark blue curtains.

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Simeon Berry @simeonberry.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

“betraying / their own brothers and stepping in front / of trains that have come loose / from their tracks and instead of brakes / have two sad faced women / waving kerchiefs” — @rebeccaslehmann.bsky.social, “Two Lovers” @southernreview.bsky.social @upittpress.bsky.social

TWO LOVERS. In one story we are two lovers scrambling up the banks of the Rhine a river I’ve never been to that I’ve read stories about in the way working class people read stories of the affluent vacationing and fucking and betraying their own brothers and stepping in front of trains that have come loose from their tracks and instead of brakes have two sad faced women waving kerchiefs from the railing of an old caboose. The thing with rivers is they crook and bend sometimes they are tidal and I have spent a lot of time writing about them. I thought our lives would crook and bend but mostly they are just the day to day which you excel at and I

am bad at. A woman wants to meet me in Chicago. A train is waiting for me. I chase it down the tracks use my kerchief to catch the railing of the caboose to hoist myself onto the little balcony. The woman is already there disappointed in me. My son my daughter two sad faces in the caboose’s back windows. Say we are climbing the banks of the Rhine. This poem a spiral, repetition with progress. I hand you a glass of chilled beer make apologies for things I can’t control. Next time, I whisper, I will be a naked beauty a face carved in a rocky cliff the answer to a question you haven’t asked yet. Rebecca Lehmann

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The Southern Review @southernreview.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

The autumn 2025 issue is out now! Our latest features fiction by Jake Maynard, Sena Moon, and Peter Orner; poetry by Bonnie Jo Campbell, Kwame Dawes, and David Hernandez; artwork by Hoàng Tiến Quyết; and much more! Explore the issue here: bit.ly/tsrautumn25

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Dan O'Brien @bydanobrien.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

The start of my poem for my brother in the latest @southernreview.bsky.social — very grateful to editor Jessica Faust 🙏🏻

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Olga Livshin @battlecake.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

I am so honored that my poem "Deadbeat Gods" found a home in The Southern Review, a dream journal. Thank you to Jessica Faust, an insightful editor. @southernreview.bsky.social 🇺🇦

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Kelley D Salas @kdsalas.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Check out my latest translation: “The New Neighbor” by Arnoldo Gálvez Suárez in @southernreview.bsky.social, about a neighborhood watch group that goes to shocking lengths to keep the riffraff out. Order: bit.ly/4jFFcdY Read 1st pages: bit.ly/44cZrL5

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Perugia Press @perugiapress.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Gail Martin has two stunning poems in the latest issue of The Southern Review. Here’s “The Doors between Two Rooms”. ♥️ @southernreview.bsky.social

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Robert Yune @robertyune.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

If you want to know what's going on in the world, ask @geetak.bsky.social. TIL my story "Baghdad, Florida" is featured in the "other distinguished stories" section of The Best American Short Stories of 2024, ed Lauren Groff. Special thanks to Sacha Idell and @southernreview.bsky.social as well.

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Rebecca Foust @rebeccafoust.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Excerpt from my poem “The Stone”, featured on February 20 in @poetrydaily.bsky.social, originally published in @southernreview.bsky.social. Read here: poems.com/poem/the-sto... #thestone #poem #poetrydaily #thesouthernreview #poetryfeature #virginiawoolf

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Rebecca Foust @rebeccafoust.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Thank you to @jpdancingbear.bsky.social & @versedaily.bsky.social for featuring "The Golden Country" from my #newbook YOU ARE LEAVING THE AMERICAN SECTOR: Love Poems ( #BackbonePress 2024), and thank you @southernreview.bsky.social for first publishing the #poem. www.versedaily.org/2025/thegold...

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Charlie Coombe @cmctranslations.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

My translation of Zoé Derleyn's short story 'Yellow Dust' has just been published in the gorgeous spring issue of The Southern Review. 💛 The story is from the collection Je m’appelle Australie (Éditions du Rouergue, 2024) thesouthernreview.org/issues/detai... @southernreview.bsky.social

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