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Now accepting applications for the 2010 Southern Review Resident Scholar position. Click here for more information.
The Southern Review hosted its 2008 prize winners at the Louisiana Book Festival, which was a great success!
• Ed Falco was the winner of the 2008 Robert Penn Warren Prize in Poetry, for his poem, "Meditation on Loss," published in our winter 2008 issue. He directs the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, VA and his most recent books are Sabbath Night in the Church of the Piranha: New and Selected Stories (2005), the novel Wolf Point (2005), and In the Park of Culture (2005), another story collection.
• Bonnie Jo Campbell was the winner of the 2008 Eudora Welty Prize in Fiction, for her story "The Inventor, 1972," also published in our winter 2008 issue. She is the author of the novel Q Road and the story collection Women & Other Animals. Her story collection, American Salvage is a Finalist for the 2009 National Book Award in Fiction.
• Beth Ann Fennelly was the judge for the 2008 Robert Penn Warren Prize in Poetry. She is the author of four books, all with W. W. Norton, most recently Unmentionables, and teaches at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, MS.
Jeanne Leiby, Editor and Director of The Southern Review, participated in the Louisiana Book Festival Media Roundtable, hosted by Lt. Governor, Mitch Landrieu.
Thank you to all of you who made this festival such a success.
For more information about this great event: lbf.state.lib.la.us/index.html
Now accepting submissions for a special feature on baseball!
The Southern Review is thrilled to celebrate the literary side of our national pastime.
We’re currently accepting submissions for a special feature about baseball to be published
in the Spring 2010 issue. Please send your previously unpublished poems, stories, and
essays by November 1. Play ball!
The Southern Review Baseball Feature
Attn. Andrew Ervin
Old President’s House
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
The Southern Review Welcomes its Second Resident Scholar
The editors and staff are proud to announce that Jen McClanahgan has been appointed as 2009–2011 Southern Review Resident Scholar.
Jen McClanaghan earned her MFA from Columbia University and her PhD from Florida State University. Her poetry manuscript was a 2009 finalist for the Dorset Prize, the National Poetry Series and for Saturnalia Books’ prize. Her poem, “River Legs,” won the 2009 Georgetown Review prize. Her work has appeared in numerous journals including the Iowa Review, AGNI online and FIELD. She has served as the production editor for The Southeast Review and as an associate poetry editor for Apalachee Review. For more information visit her website: jenmcclanaghan.com.
Jen is the second Southern Review Resident Scholar. Her duties include working 20 hours a week with The Southern Review, teaching one creative writing class per semester, and committing the rest of her time to her writing life.
A third position will be advertised this fall with an August 2010 start date.
Please join us in welcoming Jen McClanahgan!
For questions, contact Leslie Green at (225) 578-5108 or by email, southernreview@lsu.edu. |
