New South

05/29/2022

Hi, folks! We've been quiet for a little while, and we have a small update we'd like to share with you regarding New South and its future operations. A full post can be found here on our website, but a short thread will follow here as well: https://newsouthjournal.com/2022/05/29/an-update-from-new-south/

09/01/2021

Our submission window is live!! Send us your totems and trinkets!! newsouth.submittable.com/submit

08/28/2021

It's almost time! Our open reading period will begin on September 1st (just a few days away!) Get your strangest, riskiest, most delicious fiction, CNF, and poetry ready. http://newsouthjournal.com/submissions

01/04/2021

Congrats to New South contributor Timothy DeLizza, who was one of two finalists in this stellar contest! You can read his story in issue 13.1!

Happy New Year! We are delighted to start 2021 with the results of the 2020 Calvino Prize in Fabulist Fiction.

Congratulations to our winner Leanne Ogasawara for her piece "Bare Bones."

Leanne Ogasawara has worked as a translator from Japanese for over twenty years. Her translation work has included academic translation, poetry, philosophy, and documentary film. Her creative writing has appeared in the Kyoto Journal, River Teeth/Beautiful Things, Hedgehog Review, Entropy, the Dublin Review of Books, the Pasadena Star newspaper— and forthcoming in Pleiades Magazine and Gulf Coast Journal. She also has a monthly column at the science and arts blog 3 Quarks Daily: https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/author/leanneogasawara

Additionally, congratulations to this year's Finalists and Runners-up:

Runners-Up:
"I Cannot Help You With This" by Timothy DeLizza
"The Drowned Town" by Josie Sigler

Finalists:
"Bello Pichichero, The Art of Photography, No. 84" by Neal Giannone
"flyBaby" by Chad Gusler
"Cities of the Antediluvian World" by Peter Hankins
"The Band Plays Yellow When I Feel Like Red" by Tiffany Miller
"Instructions for Dreaming" by Sean W. Murphy
"KEITH, or: The Last Man on Earth" by Adam Peterson
"Placebo" by Zachary Vickers

Many thanks to our judge Joyce Carol Oates and to everyone who submitted!

12/01/2020

It's happening! Our 2021 contest opens in ONE MONTH. We're stoked to announce here our judges for the contest this year: EJ Koh in prose, and Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach in poetry! Get ready! newsouthjournal.com

11/14/2020

Hey folks, just a heads up that we'll be closing submissions to our Micro Prose category at the end of this month so that we can prepare to launch our next round of stories in January--get those flash pieces in soon if you haven't already! And don’t forget that we’re open for regular submissions of poetry, fiction, and CNF until March 31st!

Submissions are open from September 1st - March 30th. New South seeks to publish high-quality work, regardless of genre, form, or regional ties. We are looking for what is new, what is fresh, what is different, whether it comes from the southern United States, the south of India, or the north, ea....

09/01/2020

Whoops. Someone (okay, it was me) forgot to open our sub windows on Submittable. But it is open now, and we're eager to see what you've been working on! newsouth.submittable.com/submit

Also, some good news: we plan on having some fee-free submission windows! Right now we plan to dedicate these to the last day of each month, with perhaps some more spontaneous periods in between. We’ll announce them on social media as they arise!

Submissions are open from September 1st - March 30th. New South seeks to publish high-quality work, regardless of genre, form, or regional ties. We are looking for what is new, what is fresh, what is different, whether it comes from the southern United States, the south of India, or the north, ea....