Southern Review
The Southern Review is one of the nation’s premier literary journals.
About
Hailed by Time as “superior to any other journal in the English language,” they have made literary history since their 1935 founding. The Southern Review...
They’ve published
Philip Schultz
Charles Simic
Wendy Barker
Jane Springer
Bob Hicok
Stephen Dunn
What they want
PoetryFictionCreative Nonfiction
Past pages
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