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

"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: https://bit.ly/4nF2LGy

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

"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: https://bit.ly/4uqhuHm

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

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...

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. https://bit.ly/tsrspring26

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#LSUGivingDay26 We couldn’t do what we do without you.

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

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: https://bit.ly/tsrgivingday

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.

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.)

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

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.

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!

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: https://bit.ly/tsrawards25

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.

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: https://bit.ly/tsrwinter26

“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

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: https://bit.ly/tsrautumn25

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

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 🇺🇦

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

New fiction @southernreview.bsky.social

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

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.

I was interviewed by @southernreview.bsky.social about my short story “Supercharger,” which I was thrilled to have in their fall issue. Thanks to @sachaidell.bsky.social for once again giving my work such a beautiful home!

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

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...

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