The Southern Review

Publishing the best emerging and established authors.

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TSR is back with our Spring 2026 issue, featuring fiction by Rita Chang-Eppig, Chris McCormick, and @p_p_st; poetry by Pablo Armando Fernández, Haesong Kwon, and Mary Jo Salter; nonfic by @haharuffo and @julieaekim, art by Tia Keobounpheng; and much more!

https://t.co/1UcxdlqJ7u

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"New Stories from the South 2026," the newly revived anthology by @BlairPublisher, will feature "Tonopah" by Mesha Maren, which was published in our Spring 2025 issue.

The anthology is now available for pre-order: https://t.co/ZKcBrznuN6

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We love to see it: Senior Assistant Fiction Editor @isleofanalia published a story in @southern_review! 😍 And you can catch her interview right here. https://t.co/K9NaKBRxTW

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"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 included in The Best American Poetry 2025.

Stream it now on @PBS: https://t.co/xerkDkzzMz

[Natalia García Freire🦬 @nataliag37]

Salió acá un cuentito de La máquina de hacer pájaros traducido por el gran Victor Meadowcroft: The Ballad of the Space Cowboy.

Es de un abuelo fumador alien avestruz armadillo.

Me pone contentísima♥️

[Simeon Berry @simeonberry]

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

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To all of our Giving Day supporters: Thank you 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 @lsupress and @southern_review. We couldn’t do what we do without you.

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Thank you so much for your support this Giving Day. Please help us surpass our donor goal to unlock a challenge gift from David & 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.
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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, check out our Giving Day page: https://t.co/JTyJvenjhW

[Arao AMENY @araoameny]

If you’re in Baltimore for @awpwriter Conference, join us today on Wednesday, March 4 at 7 pm, at the Baltimore Museum of Industry's Communications Gallery for a reading featuring authors from @UWiscPress, @lsupress, the University of Pittsburgh Press & @southern_review. (1/2)

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Going to AWP? 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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We'd like to congratulate our former coeditor and prose editor, @EmilyNemens, on the publication of her latest novel, "Clutch." Nemens will be returning to Louisiana in April to read at @DeltaMouthFest in Baton Rouge and @TheGDBookShop in NOLA. We can't wait to see you, Emily!

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Every year, @southern_review rewards our writers for outstanding work. Congrats to the recipients of our 2025 awards: Mesha Maren, Debbie Urbanski, Bridget Lowe, Antonella Lettieri, @SeanMcDTransl8r, and Joshua Bennett. To view the winning pieces, visit: https://t.co/xaUpsk5YFD

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Our winter 2026 issue, out now, features three poems from Sharon Olds; fiction from Ladee Hubbard; artwork from @gabriel_isak; a story from Miroslav Penkov, who published his debut in @southern_review 20 years ago; and much more. Explore the issue here: https://t.co/dnfbLn7UZr

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@fourscorefive, “Blank Verse,” from our spring 2024 issue

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Did you know that five poems in "The Best American Poetry 2025"—edited by David Lehman and guest edited by Terence Winch—originally appeared in The Southern Review? Congratulations to the following authors, and thanks for entrusting us with your work.

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@AlisonPelegrin, “Zero Bothers Given,” from our spring 2024 issue