New South
Fall / Winter 2007
Volume One, Number One

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After more than thirty years GSU Review has become New South. Our role as Georgia State University’s journal of art and literature has not changed; however, it was time for a revision, a chance for a clearer mission.
In an interview with poetry editor, Jenny Sadre-Orafai, Jake Adam York speaks of the responsibility of being a “Southern” writer, of writing conditioned by place. While we work within the literary traditions of a geographic “Old South,” we are not exclusively a “Southern” journal, with its myriad implications. We are Southern by default, not by design. Therefore, your work DOES NOT
have to be set in the South or refer to the South in any way for us to consider it. We are dedicated to finding and publishing the best work from artists around the world.
Inside Volume 1, Number 1: Keith Lee Morris mines his fever dreams, and Jon Sindell chronicles an aging hippie’s struggles with fatherhood. Billy Reynolds’s speaker loves his ducks, and Cody Lumpkin’s catastrophic wing shacks become and hover. Brian Ray discusses the rise of the “9/11 novel,” and Sarah Manguso’s Siste Viator gives reviewer Anis Shivani something to smile about.
We have completed our inaugural issue, but are now reviewing submissions for inclusion in our Spring / Summer 2008 (Volume One, Number Two). So, take a look at our submission guidelines and send us your best work, regardless of form or style.
January 30 - February 2, 2008
We had a great time in New York at the 2008 AWP Conference. We enjoyed meeting many of our contributors and talking with others interested in New South. Thanks for stopping by and saying hello.
Congratulations to ELEANOR BLUESTEIN - her collection Tea and Other Ayama Na Tales has won the Chandra Prize Contest (U. of Missouri-Kansas City). The prize includes publication
of the book in the fall of 2008. Her story "The Cut the Crap Machine" was a finalist in our 2007 contest and is featured in her forthcoming prize-winning collection.
Congratulations to CLIFFORD GARSTANG, C.E. PERRY, DAVID HICKS & VERONICA PATTERSON - winners of our 2007 gsu review Contest in Fiction and Poetry.
We'd like to thank everyone who submitted to our 2007 contest. We received a record number of submissions this year, and an abundance of wonderful poetry and fiction. Choosing finalists from such a first-class collection of work was not easy.
First-place winners will receive $1000. Second-place winners will receive $250. All winners and finalists will have their work published in our Spring / Summer 2007 issue.
Special thanks to our judges Keith Lee Morris and Jake Adam York.
See our Contest page for 2008 Contest Guidelines and a full list of last year's winners & finalists.
Last updated: March 19, 2008
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