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

New South Presents

Michael Martone
&
Kristy Bowen

April 23, 2008 (Wed)

4:30 pm: Fiction / Craft discussion with Michael Martone

7:30 PM: Readings by Michael Martone & Kristy Bowen

Troy Moore Library (Georgia State Univeristy - 939 General Classroom Building)

Cost: Free & Open to General Public

Michael Martone teaches in the creative writing program at the University of Alabama and his short fiction, essays, and articles are widely published.  His most recent work, Racing in Place: Collages, Fragments, Postcards, Ruins (2008), is a collection of essays in which “the ordinary always transforms into the extraordinary.”  Double-wide: Collected Fiction of Michael Martone (2007) assembles two decades of short fiction from his first five books, and Michael Martone: Fictions (2005), originally written as a series of contributor's notes for various publications, is an investigation of form and autobiography.

A poet and artist, Kristy Bowen is the author of the fever almanac (2006) as well as several chapbooks, including feign (2007) and at the hotel andromeda (w/Lauren Levato), a book art project inspired by the work of Joseph Cornell. Two full-length projects are forthcoming: in the bird museum (2008) and girl show (2009). Her work has appeared in electronic and print journals like Cranky, DIAGRAM, Agni, Rhino, Slipstream, Backwards City, Caffeine Destiny, and others.

The Deadline (March 4, 2008) for our 2008 Writing Contest has passed. We received a record number of submissions this year and look forward to reading them all. If you missed our contest, consider submitting your work via our regular submission process. We consider submissions year round.