Monthly Archives: February 2019
A Writer’s Insight: Julia Ridley Smith
Julia Ridley Smith’s story “At the Arrowhead” appears in the autumn 2018 issue of The Southern Review. Here, she discusses mobilizing the act of naming for character development, folding personal experiences into fiction, and embracing Greensboro, North Carolina as a reoccurring setting in her work. Rhiannon Thorne: Much of the action is emotionally driven by the tension […]
Announcing the James Olney Award
The Southern Review is pleased to announce the inauguration of the James Olney Award. Olney was a professor of English and coeditor of The Southern Review from 1983 to 2004. He died in 2015. The annual award, established and funded by the generous support of a donor, is presented to a contributor for an exceptional work that […]
A Writer’s Insight: Traci Brimhall
Traci Brimhall’s “Bound” appears in the autumn 2018 issue of The Southern Review. Here, she discusses indulging in research, the satisfaction of slowing down in the nonfiction form, and meditating on the flesh tubes we call bodies. Rhiannon Thorne: In “Bound,” skin, death, love, and desire seem intrinsically connected. How did you manicure your ideas into a piece […]
Editor’s Note: Winter 2019
This morning the horse ranch across the way from my new home was wrapped in fog. This is something of an unusual occurrence for me these days. When I was growing up in Northern California, we often had these sorts of winter mornings—mornings when fog would settle into the valley of my little town and […]
Alisa Plant Named Director of LSU Press
Louisiana State University Press is pleased to announce that Alisa Plant has been named director of the Press and publisher of The Southern Review, effective March 4. Plant will be the seventh director of LSU Press. Plant returns to LSU Press from the University of Nebraska Press, where she served as editor-in-chief since 2015. Under […]