The Southern Review publishes fiction, poetry, critical essays, interviews, book reviews, and excerpts from novels in progress, with emphasis on contemporary literature in the United States and abroad, and with special interest in southern culture and history. Poems and fiction are selected with careful attention to craftsmanship and technique and to the seriousness of the subject matter. Although willing to publish experimental writing that has a valid artistic purpose, The Southern Review avoids extremism and sensationalism. Critical essays and book reviews exhibit a thoughtful and sometimes severe awareness of the necessity of literary standards in our time. Minimum rates to contributors are twelve dollars per printed page for prose and twenty dollars per page for poetry.
Payment is made on publication.
Manuscripts will not be returned without adequate return postage. Do not send manuscripts via e-mail. Only previously unpublished works will be considered. Allow at least two months for editorial decisions. All book reviews are on a commissioned basis.