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08/20/2024

The Southeast Review is trying something new!

Send us your Young Adult short fiction!

08/14/2024

08/12/2024

We are excited to announce the winner and runner-up for our Writer’s Regimen summer contest!

First place goes to Madeline Simms () & the runner-up spot was taken by Amy Kennedy ().

Watch for these pieces to be published with SER in the future!

08/11/2024

08/04/2024

Our website got a bit of a makeover recently. Take a moment to check it out. And don’t forget our submissions are currently open.

08/02/2024

This week’s Online Exclusive features Corey Ginsberg’s nonfiction piece, “Weighing In.” To read the full piece visit the 🔗 in our bio!

07/31/2024

The final fiction piece from Southeast Review’s first issue is “Action” by P. V. LeForge. Published in 1979, LeForge depicts Lois Lane’s attempts to reveal Clark Kent’s identity as Superman as they approach romance.

07/29/2024

This week we’re reading Diode Poetry Journal and their volume 17 number 1! Aisha Hamid’s “Tying my father’s hair in a ponytail” offers such beautiful language and powerful images with gentle sentimentality. Click the link in our bio to read the rest of this poem!

07/26/2024

This week’s Online Exclusive features an About the Work for Marne Litfin’s fiction piece, “American Girl” which was published in our latest issue 42.1!

Read “American Girl” with the 🔗 in our bio!

07/24/2024

Looking back to Southeast Review’s very first issue with Linda Harkey’s fiction piece, “Nether,” which follows the decline of a secretary’s affair with her boss. Volume 1 was published in 1979, when our magazine was known as Sun Dog.

07/22/2024

This week, we’re throwing it back to Southeast Review’s very first issue, Volume 1, when we were called Sun Dog. Ellen Ashdown’s captivating piece, “Curry” uses vivacious language, but the attention to detail is what really makes it sing. For a blast to the past click the link in our bio!

07/19/2024

This week’s Online Exclusive features an interview by Bronwen West with Karyna McGlynn on her poetry collection 50 THINGS KATE BUSH TAUGHT ME ABOUT THE MULTIVERSE.

Visit the 🔗 in our bio to read the full conversation!

07/17/2024

For this SER Staff Pick, we’re highlighting Luster by Raven Leilani (), chosen by our Editorial Assistant, Cherith King, who says, “In Luster, Leilani’s piercing, magnetic prose anchored me to Edie’s story as she molds herself to the brutal, unforgiving era of young adulthood. Edie’s interactions with Rebecca, Eric, and Akila are distinct, intimate, uncomfortable, and strange, but possess a shared humanity. There’s a hypnotic effect to Leilani’s prose, but a grounding reality in its confrontation of racism, capitalism, and sexism. Leilani masterfully depicts the grime, heat, and pressure of youth in a world with no backup plans or safety nets. Luster is beautiful for all of those reasons, but most of all, because it is honest.”

07/15/2024

Check out Write or Die’s latest essay, “Background Knowledge” written by Miklós Vámos and translated by ! “I found a piano teacher who, in addition to familiarizing me with the keyboard, also expanded my inadequate knowledge of harmony. By then, Tibor Bornai (the keyboard player in the Hungarian band KFT) and I had formed a vocal and guitar duo for the sake of entertaining ourselves. However, after we had performed at one of my book launches, people got wind of us and invitations began to pour in.” Couldn’t put this one down. Read more at the link in our bio!

07/10/2024

Spending a moment this morning with Kiyoko Reidy’s () poetry, “On My Way to Being an Actual,” a reflective piece on material things and generational expectations. Read it in our latest issue at the link below!

https://www.southeastreview.org/single-post/42-1-kiyoko-reidy

07/08/2024

Check out Meghan Kemp-Gee’s poem in our latest issue! “The bodies brighter than four million suns, you don’t say, I don’t say. Through stethoscopes, we hear the last wheel and the distance clicking into place. I miss you, I miss you too.” The astronomical imagery and thoughtfulness put into this piece is brilliant. Find the full poem at the link in our bio!

07/05/2024

This week’s SER Online Exclusive features Shashank Rao’s () short story, “Love Jihad,” which follows Stanford-bound Meenakshi Reddy’s mysterious rebellion with the voice of the community that constrained her.

🔗 in bio for the full piece!

07/03/2024

Check out Keri Miller’s () fiction piece “Giulia” from our friends at swamp pink literary journal ()! “Giulia had things I wanted but was not allowed: a pool with a diving board, a dock on the canal, a Noni from Italy, rainbow bread from Wal-Mart, a dwarf hamster, a half-brother, pierced ears, and a two-story house.” Read the full piece on their website in Issue No. 4.

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07/02/2024

📣 Calling all writers!! 📣 Southeast Review is currently open for submissions in Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Poetry, and Interviews! 🪩

‼️Submissions have a reading fee of $3.00

✨Submissions are FREE for BIPOC writers and currently or formerly incarcerated writers.

We look forward to reading your work! 😊

Link in bio for additional information and the direct link to our submittable.🫡

07/01/2024

Victoria Chang’s brilliant poem, “Ode to Joy” has such great language. The ever present stream of consciousness in the piece is riveting. Read the full piece over at Washington Square Review in their Spring 2024 volume, Issue 51.

06/28/2024

We have a new book review 📖 for you! Check out Gabi Diaz Guerrero’s review of Chachi D Hauser’s IT’S FUN TO BE A PERSON I DON’T KNOW.

🔗 in bio for the full review.

06/26/2024

Josh Humphrey’s thoughtful poem “Superman Suite: Lex Luthor” juxtaposes the cartoon drama of retro comics with piercing depth. Read the full piece in our latest issue at the link in the below!

https://www.southeastreview.org/single-post/42-1-josh-humphrey

06/24/2024

Check out Brian Russell’s poem, “Arizona” in our latest volume. The juxtaposition in this work is amazing. Southeast Review is so appreciative to feature his work in issue 42.1. There’s much more to read with the link in our bio!

06/21/2024

You do not want to miss this important interview with our Art Editor, Haley Laningham (), and Palestinian artist Sliman Mansour (.mansour), who talks about “his life under Israeli occupation and speaks about his art — its beauty, resistance, and meaning — in the face of genocide, past and harrowing present.”

🔗 in bio for the full piece, which includes a donation link to the Mariam Foundation for Palestinian Children with Cancer.
Free Palestine. Ceasefire now. 🇵🇸

06/19/2024

Check out Fay Ray’s () intricate and striking aluminum sculptures. We’re so grateful to feature these pieces and more in our latest issue. See them all at the link below!

https://www.southeastreview.org/single-post/42-1-fay-ray

06/17/2024

Jai Hamid Bashir’s poem, “Alone, in Halves” in our very own latest volume is so poignant. 42.1 wouldn’t be the same without this masterpiece of strength and grace. Hats off to our lovely author ( ) Head on over to the link in our bio to check out the rest of this poem!

06/12/2024

Sébastien Luc Butler’s () “Gospel” is a hauntingly graceful and sobering piece from our latest issue. Find the full poem at the link below!
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We hope you had a restful Thanksgiving and weekend! We’re starting off the week by featuring “3” from Volume 39.1. In an interview with K. Iver, Min Liu explained that “The combination of red, black and white is actually an accident. I used black for outlining, then used red as a placeholder at first. But after I finished the draft, I was fascinated with the beauty of the color palette, and I just went with that.” Be sure to view Liu’s other gory yet humorous gifs via the link: https://www.southeastreview.org/single-post/39-1-min-liu! To read the interview, navigate to the "Art" section of our Online Exclusives archives on our website. . . . . #digitalart #gif #animation #artistsofinstagram #litmag

We are looking for your intersectional feminist essays for our next issue! Give us an empowered voice we can root for. Submit here: https://southeastreview.submittable.com/submit

Today we’re showcasing one of Ukrainian artist Marynka Dovhanych's unsettling gifs from our newly released issue, Vol. 40.2, titled “Air Raid Siren.” Dovhanych states in an accompanying caption, “I see the air raid siren as a psychological weapon. It’s like a button that turns on fear of death, a tool for mass insomnia.” Check out the rest of Dovhanych’s gifs based on the Russian invasion in Ukraine by clicking the link: https://www.southeastreview.org/single-post/40-2-marynka-dovhanych . . . . . #gif #digitalart #animation #artistsofinstagram #literarymagazine

Hugest of congratulations go out to Lauren Green on her piece from Vol. 39.1, "Instructions for Lovers," being selected for the 2022 BEST SMALL FICTIONS anthology!! https://www.thesonderpress.com/bsf-selections-2022

Our print version is here!! New in this version: our color artist in full color! And so many incredible poets, fiction writers, essayists, our phenomenal black & white artist, & more! Buy Vol. 40.1 in print or purchase a subscription here: https://www.southeastreview.org/purchase