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The literary magazine for the MFA program in creative writing at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. Carino

We are open to all fiction, poetry, nonfiction and art that moves us. Find our Guidelines here: https://barelysouthreview.com/submit/

Editorial Advisory Board: Luisa A. Igloria, John McManus, Michael Pearson, Janet Peery, Sheri Reynolds, Tim Seibles

BARELY SOUTH REVIEW logo: Josephine A.

09/12/2024

Join us this Thursday to celebrate our launch of the Winter 2025 issue. Rhonda Zimlich will be visiting to read an excerpt of her award-winning essay, and Peter Schulman will read a translation of Virginie Beauregard D.’s work. Don’t miss out! Complimentary food and drinks provided.

20/11/2024

Check out our latest interview with Dolen Perkins-Valdez! Visit the Interview and Reviews tab on BSR’s website. Happy Reading!

Dolen Perkins-Valdez is the New York Times bestselling author of three historical fiction novels: W***h (2010), Balm (2015), and Take My Hand (2022). W***h was a finalist for two NAACP Image Awards and the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award for fiction. Take My Hand was awarded the 2023 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work-Fiction and the 2023 BCALA Award for Fiction. Her new novel, Happy Land, is forthcoming in the spring of 2025. Dolen cemented herself as a distinguished chronicler of American historical life. She wrote the introduction for a special edition of Solomon Northup’s Twelve Years a Slave, published by Simon and Schuster. The special edition became a New York Times bestseller. That led to her writing an introduction for Elizabeth Keckly’s Behind the Scenes and the 75th anniversary of George Orwell’s 1984. Dolen has been nominated for a United States Artists Fellowship three times. Currently, she is an Associate Professor in the Literature Department at American University.

25/10/2024

It’s here! LIVE today on our website. ⚡️
Our Winter 2025 Pre-Issue includes:
Featured Artist: Jaina Cipriano
An interview with Anna Qu
Nonfiction Contest Winner: Rhonda Zimlich
Work by: Jessica Fokken, Lea Grover, Avery Greenburg, K. Rouisse, and Angus Woodard

21/10/2024

This Friday we drop our Winter 2025 Pre-Issue with an impressive line-up. Don’t miss out on
Featured Artist: Jaina Cipriano
An interview with Anna Qu
Nonfiction Contest Winner: Rhonda Zimlich
Work by: Jessica Fokken, Lea Grover, Avery Greenburg, K. Rouisse, and Angus Woodard

We can’t wait for you to see it!

09/10/2024

We are so excited to announce the winner of our 2024 BSR Nonfiction Writing Contest: Rhonda Zimlich! Our judge Anna Qu described the piece as “stunning.” Keep an eye out for Rhonda’s work in our pre-issue that will be published later this month! Thank you to all the amazing writers who submitted to this contest.

Rhonda Zimlich teaches writing at American University in Washington D.C. She writes about intergenerational trauma and the unbreakable spirit of youth. Her debut novel, Raising Panic, won the Steel Toe Books 2023 Book Award for prose and is expected in November, 2024. Other works have appeared in Brevity, Past-Ten, American Writer’s Review, and more. She was awarded the 2020 Literary Award in Nonfiction from Dogwood, a Journal of Poetry and Prose at Fairfield University. The same essay earned her an honorable mention in Best American Essays. She received the 2021 Please See Me Fiction Award. See more at www.rhondazimlich.com

01/09/2024

It’s official…it’s 9/1 and subs are open now until November 1 for our Winter Issue. We can’t wait to see your work!

06/08/2024

Don’t delay! Send us your best CNF essays via the submissions page on our website for a chance to win and get published with BSR!!

28/06/2024

Time is running out! ⏰ One more month left to submit to our nonfiction writing contest (open through 7/31.) Have your work read by the amazing and there’s a chance to win $300! See more details on our submission page. We can’t wait to read your work!

04/06/2024

We’re in Iowa City this month! Come find us (the print magazine) at the lovely and local Press Coffee

Also, don’t forget to submit to our nonfiction writing contest open through 7/31. Have your work read by the amazing and there’s a chance to win $300! See more details on our submission page. Happy writing!

29/05/2024

Barely South Review is excited to have Anna Qu as our special guest judge for The BSR Summer Non-Fiction Writing Contest. We invite all creative non-fiction that is previously unpublished, original, and under 5,000 words. The winner will receive $300 and publication in BSR! Submissions open: June 1 - July 31. For more details on how to submit, please visit our website: barelysouthreview.com/submit

Thanks to Kenneth Fitzgerald for the poster design

01/05/2024

We recently awarded some BSR staff members with end of the year awards. Congratulations to those who have been recognized. Thank you to all our staff for your hard work and for all you’ve done to make this year phenomenal!

Pictured from Left to Right:
Bekah Broussard, BSR’s Editor of the Year
Elena Knudsen, BSR’s Staff Editor of the Year
Helena Edge, BSR’s Interviewer of the Year

Not Pictured:
Sam New, BSR’s Poetry Editor of the Year

26/04/2024

It’s finally here! Check out our latest Issue 15.2 on our website! Thank you to our contributors and everyone involved with publication! We hope you enjoy reading 📖

23/04/2024

This Friday, we’re releasing our long awaited alumni issue 15.2. We’ll be featuring a few alumni from our program as well as some other amazing work from talented writers. We hope you’ll check it out! ✨

08/03/2024

Don’t miss it… our Spring Pre-issue is live today! Thanks to all of our contributors, readers, and editors. 📖 ✨ 🐠

Just a reminder: Subs are still open until 3/15 for our spring issue. Please submit your best fiction, poetry, nonfiction, flash, and lit comic! See more info on our website and submittable page.

01/03/2024

An interview with Brian Turner is now live on our website. Read it today!

“Craft Chat, An Interview with Brian Turner” by Megan Pastore, Senior Poetry Editor
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Brian Turner is the author of five collections of poetry (from Here, Bullet to The Wild Delight of Wild Things) and a memoir (My Life as a Foreign Country). He’s the editor of The Kiss and co-editor of The Strangest of Theatres. A musician, he’s written and recorded albums with The Interplanetary Acoustic Team, including 11 11 (Me Smiling) and American Undertow with The Retro Legion. His poems and essays have been published in The New York Times, The Guardian, National Geographic, and Harper’s, among other fine journals, and he was featured in the documentary Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience, nominated for an Academy Award. A Guggenheim Fellow, he’s received a USA Hillcrest Fellowship in Literature, the Amy Lowell Traveling Fellowship, the Poets’ Prize, and a Fellowship from the Lannan Foundation. He lives in Orlando with his dog, Dene, the world’s sweetest golden retriever.

08/02/2024

Come find us at the AWP Book Fair this week! We’re located at table T3203. We’ve got some notebooks, a mini issue, and some awesome T-shirts. 📚✨We can’t wait to meet you!

05/02/2024

We’re looking forward to seeing you at the Book Fair this year at AWP in Kansas City! Be sure to stop by and meet some of the staff. 📚Safe travels!

18/01/2024

Lit Comix is a brand new and exciting addition to our genre submission pool. We are looking for artistic quality, creativity, and of course, an original set of panels that tells a story with a literary edge. At this time, we are accepting up to 19 panels. Above is a work by EG Shields from our Fall Pre-Issue 2023. Check out the full piece in our website archive.

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