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Poetry Feature

"Correlations" by Alexandra Teague


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Fiction Feature

"Never Love a Wild Thing" by Kelly Gray

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Fiction Feature

"Ways to Die" by Katherine Sinback


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Poetry Feature Manuscript Making: On Crafting Collections

SHR contributors who have recently published poetry collections comment on how they constructed complete manuscripts in five brief essays.

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Interview: John Sibley Williams

SHR 55.1 contributor John Sibley Williams discusses his poem "Skyscrape," his latest poetry collection, Scale Model of a Country at Dawn​, and the themes and images which inspire his work.


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Fiction Feature

​"A Tiger Someday" by Dustin Hoffman

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Fiction Feature

​"The Boning Hole" by Holly Day


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Interview: Eliamani Ismail

SHR 54.4 contributor Eliamani Ismail discusses her short story "Garfield, 2005" and how her Pan-Africanist worldview influences her art and writing practices.

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Fiction Feature

​"Shared History" by Patricia Patterson


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Fiction Feature

"The Experiment" by A. Molotkov

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Interview: Leslie Blanco

SHR 54.2 contributor Leslie Blanco discusses her short story "A Sane Person Wouldn't Do Something Like That" and how the Cuban revolution of 1959 influences her writing.


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Fiction Feature

"K-Tel Presents The Incredible Offers Made to Women in Songs!" by K.E. Flann

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Fiction Feature

"Evil" by Fei Sun

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Poetry Feature: About This Unit

Poems on family and finding other lines of symmetry. For National Poetry Month 2021.

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Fiction Feature

"Tablet Lullabies" by Helena Olufsen


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Interview: Jade Hidle

SHR 54.1 contributor Jade Hidle discusses her essay, "Thúy," and her novel The Return to Viet Nam​.

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Fiction Feature

"Whales" by Coleen Muir


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Fiction Feature

"The Cavern of Painted Darkness" by Stephen Pett

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Fiction Feature

"Haruspex" by Eric Laster

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Fiction Feature

"Cooking Show" by Amy Stuber

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Interview: Maria Kuznetsova

Maria Kuznetsova, the new fiction editor for Southern Humanities Review, discusses her novels, what she looks for in good fiction, and the stories she’s excited to share in issue 53.4.

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Witness Prize 2020 Honorable Mentions

Poems of witness from Amy Elisabeth Davis, torrin a. greathouse, Leslie McIntosh, Ojo Taiye, and JinJin Xu.

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Fiction Feature

​"Heedless of the Wind and Weather" by George Choundas


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A Literary Field Guide to Southern Appalachia: Teaching Tips and Writing Prompts

Creative writing prompts and tips for those using A Literary Field Guide to Southern Appalachia ​in the classroom.

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Sayantani Dasgupta in Conversation with Rheea Mukherjee

SHR contributors Sayantani Dasgupta and Rheea Mukherjee discuss Mukherjee's novel The Body Myth.


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Interview: Dewaine Farria
Fiction Feature

SHR 53.1 contributor Dewaine Farria discusses his story, "The Tap Cascade," and his forthcoming novel Revolutions of All Colors (Syracuse University Press).

​"Middling" by Janelle Bassett


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Interview: Lia Greenwell
A Literary Field Guide to Southern Appalachia Feature
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SHR 52.4 contributor Lia Greenwell discusses trauma, the stranglehold of fear, and both the limitations and possibilities of form and genre.

Southern Humanities Review Editor Rose McLarney shares select poems* from this collection recently published by University of Georgia Press. Poems from Melissa Range, Anna Lena Phillips Bell, Nickole Brown, Adrian Blevins, L. Lamar Wilson, Rebecca Gayle Howell, Sean Hill, Holly Haworth, Molly McCully Brown, Susan O'Dell Underwood, and Deborah Miranda showcase the wide and poetic biodiversity of the region.

*all poems re-printed with the permission of University of Georgia Press

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Witness Prize 2019 Honorable Mentions
Fiction Feature

Poems of witness from Mary Angelino, BJ Buckley, Ann Fisher-Wirth, Tatiana M.R. Johnson, and Matthew Wimberley

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"Downpour" by Elizabeth Hamilton


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Interview: Dante Di Stefano
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Fiction Feature

Dante Di Stefano, winner of the 2019 Auburn Witness Poetry Prize judged by Vievee Francis, discusses his award-winning poem "Burning Churches," its themes and inspirations, and the importance of bearing witness.

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"Marisol" by Leah Fretwell


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I Got a Sign from New Orleans Herself: A Conversation with Jerika Marchan by Katharine Coldiron

Katharine Coldiron sits down with Jerika Marchan to discuss her poetry collection, SWOLE​. 

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Interview: Talia Lakshmi Kolluri

Emerging writer Talia Lakshmi Kolluri talks animal conservation, non-human main characters, cross-species grief, the fluidity of time, and leading with kindness.


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Fiction Feature

"Remembrance" by Anuja Varghese

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Fiction Feature

"To Savor" by Lee Upton

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