Monthly Archives: February 2025

Joanna Pearson’s story, “Bold Moves”, appears in the winter 2025 issue of The Southern Review. Here she discusses transcendence, scathing narrators, and what writing helps us understand about ourselves. Halley McArn: Sylvie’s anxiety about giving a reading as a feminist poet in the Deep South is palpable! Why did you choose to set this story at […]

The Southern Review is pleased to announce this year’s recipients of the Oran Robert Perry Burke Awards for Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Literary Translation, as well as the James Olney Award. These annual awards, established and funded by the generous support of donors, are presented to contributors in recognition of an exceptional work that appears in […]