Issue 45 : Spring 2018

Poetry

Roadkill by MEGAN BLANKENSHIP

Permanent Change of Station by KATE GASKIN

On Showering by DREW HEMMERT

Falling Man by JENNIFER KEY

Cleaning the Truck | The Metaphysics of Lumber by ALEJANDRO LEMUS-GOMEZ

Burning Mountain by LIZ ROBBINS

Infidelity by BRITTNEY SCOTT

Love Poem While Driving Down Kentucky Highway 52 by SHAUN TURNER

If I Could I Would Love To by JESS WILLIARD

Grassy Branch Pentecostal Church, Face of Christ on Tin by WILLIAM WOOLFITT

Fiction

Blood Moon by JOSEPH BATHANTI

Playing Asleep by DESTINY BIRDSONG

The Survivor by KELCEY EDWARDS

Signs of Life by MARY ALICE HOSTETTER

Peniel by DAN LEACH

A Glorious History! by RYAN NAPIER

Veil by KATHRYN SCHWILLE

The Highway That Leads Beyond the World by JAMES ULMER

Reviews

Review of ‘Glory Days’ by SARAH L BAILEY

Review of ‘Village Prodigies’ by SHAWN DELGADO

Review of ‘Sorrow Bread’ by WESLEY SEXTON

Non-Fiction

Gas! Gas! Gas! by GUY CHOATE

Finding Karen by KATHY DAVIS

Dear Brother by M. RANDAL O’WAIN

The Ever-Fixed Mark by BARBARA PRESNELL

Smear Campaign (#21) by COLIN RAFFERTY

The Deadbeat by THERESA STARKEY

Issue 44 : Fall 2017

Poetry Special Feature: Kelly Cherry

The Oppenheimer Project: An Interview with Kelly Cherry by CAITLIN McCANN

A Review of Kelly Cherry’s ‘Quartet for Robert Oppenheimer’ by SEAN WHITEFORD

Poetry Special Feature: Rebecca Gayle Howell

End Without End: An Interview with Rebecca Gayle Howell by DANIEL CROSS TURNER

A Catalogue of What You Have | How to Cure by REBECCA GAYLE HOWELL

Non-Fiction Special Feature: Joe Oestreich

An Interview with Joe Oestreich by BARRETT BOWLIN

A Review of Joe Oestreich’s ‘Partisans’ by SARAH L. BAILEY

Randall Jarrell Poetry Competition

Winner: Relics of the Great Acceleration by LISA ZERKLE

Runner-up: Orrery by ERIC SMITH

Poetry

At the Farm Stand | Honey by EMILY BANKS

When You’re Able to Read | Peak of Big Shanty: Dreaming by JOSHUA MORGAN FOLMAR

Backwards Ghazal and Never Again by MARY CROCKETT HILL

Canciones Que Cruzan El Atlántico: An Aztec’s Offering for Killing an Igbo by ANTONIO LOPEZ

Another Cisgender Person Sends Me an Article in Which the Transgender Person Does Not Exit the Story Alive, in Three Parts by LINETTE REEMAN

Galveston by ANNE-MARIE THOMPSON

First Baptist, Lexington by LESLEY WHEELER

Fiction

To Fall and Rise Again by MICHAEL BEEMAN

The Tens by DOROTHY BENDEL

A Shaker Chair by CHAYA BHUVANESWAR

Arboretum by MELANIE PAPPADIS FARANELLO

Last Love by TIM KEPPEL

Unnatural Habitats by ANGELA MITCHELL

Teller by GLEN POURCIAU

Non-Fiction

On Bohemian Bluegrass, Beer, Some Barbecue, and a Few Weeks in Prague by ALEX ALBRIGHT

Moose Park by TERRY BARR

Woman With Book Walks Into a Bar, aka Paradigm Shift by SUSANNAH FELTS

Guard Shift by MICHAEL KUBISTA

Pleasure Monsters by ELIZABETH REITZELL

Two Women on a Stage by ROBYN RYLE

Traveling on a Budget, Mental Health, and ‘The New Feminine Brain’ by BIANCA SALVANT

Interviews and Reviews

The Illusion of Authenticity: An Interview with Jacob M. Appel by JESSE VAN RHEENEN

An Interview with Scott Gould by ROSS WHITE

An Interview with Erica Wright by MICHELLE ROSQUILLO

Katie Peterson’s Robert Lowell, Other People’s Lowell, and the Existential Addressee by DAVID BLAIR

A Review of Katherine McCord’s ‘Run Scream Unbury Save’ by KELLY CHERRY

Jay Hopler’s ‘The Abridged History of Rainfall’ by MICHAEL PONTACOLONI


Archive

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15 April 2018
Just posted: Issue 45 of storySouth presents new non-fiction from Barbara Presnell, new poetry from Alejandro Lemus-Gomez and Kate Gaskin, and new fiction from Joseph Bathanti and Mary Alice Hostetter.

19 September 2017.
Just posted: Issue 44 of storySouth, with a non-fiction special feature on Joe Oestreich, poetry special features on Kelly Cherry and Rebecca Gayle Howell, and work by 2017 Randall Jarrell Poetry Competiton winner Lisa Zerkle and runner-up Eric Smith.

15 March 2017.
Just posted: storySouth’s Spring 2017 issue, including new poetry from Natasha Oladokun, new fiction from Jacob M. Appel, non-fiction by Margaret Donovan Bauer, and a poetry special feature on James Treat.

15 September 2016.
Just posted: our Fall 2016 issue, including new poetry from Dan Albergotti, new fiction from Quinn Dalton, new non-fiction from Sarah Grigg, and special features on Amy Wright & William Wright and the Randall Jarrell Poetry Competition winners.

15 April 2016.
Just posted: storySouth’s Spring 2016 issue, including new poetry from Chelsea Rathburn, new fiction from Tyrese L. Coleman, new nonfiction from Cheryl Smart, and special features on Andy Young and Hastings Hensel.

1 November 2015.
Just posted: There Are No Binaries: An Interview with Jesse Goolsby

20 January 2015.
Just posted: Platonic Love Letter to a Cruise Ship Lookout by Michael Meyerhofer

15 January 2015.
Congratulations to the winners of the 2014 Million Writers Award!