Issue 34 : Fall 2012
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Craig Nova introduces his latest novel, The Constant Heart
Fiction
Lucky Us by ANTHONY VARALLO
Luck by STEPHEN MARCH
Xs and Os by TAWNYSHA GREENE
Everyday Murders by JASON OCKERT
Walter’s House by CHARLES WYATT
The Gravity of Home by LC FIORE
Rollerskating, Barking by MEG POKRASS
Two Things From a Burning House by JESSE GOOLSBY
Poetry
A Night at the Opera by DAVID J DANIELS
Beason | Made for TV by KATHLEEN KIRK
At Night When the Music Comes by SUSAN LUDVIGSON
Umbrellas | Eyeglasses by MICHAEL MEYERHOFER
Benediction for Subsequent Tenants by ROSE POSTMA
Field Numerology by DOUG RAMSPECK
Courier by EMILY SCHULTEN
Adolescence is a Disorder of the Mouth | Entrée Versus Lightning, Round One by LESLEY WHEELER
At the Blank Blank Bar by CAROLYN BEARD WHITLOW
Short play
Between Two Points by ERIC WEIL
Novel excerpt
from Body by ANNE MARIE WHEELER
Reviews
Julie Brooks Barbour’s ‘Come to Me and Drink’ by JENNIFER WHITAKER
John Thomas York’s ‘Cold Spring Rising’ by JESSICA PLANTE
M. Scott Douglass’ ‘Hard to Love’ by ERIC WEIL
The Mutable Self: A Review of Mark Smith-Soto’s Berkeley Prelude by OKLA ELLIOTT
Ira Sadoff’s ‘True Faith’ by SHAWN DELGADO
Issue 33 : Spring 2012
Special Feature: Katie Chaple
Coward | The Sexiest Woman Alive by KATIE CHAPLE
An Interview with Katie Chaple by SHAWN DELGADO
Katie Chaple’s ‘Pretty Little Poems’ by SHAWN DELGADO
In Memoriam: Bob Watson, 1925-2012
A Career in Review by GEORGE SINGLETON, KELLY CHERRY, FRED CHAPPELL, and others
Fiction
Scout’s Honor by VANESSA BLAKESLEE
A Little Night Music by DEBORAH CLEARMAN
Watching Alice Watch by NAN CUBA
Colonials by VALERIE NIEMAN
Name of Briscoe by JULIA RIDLEY SMITH
Waiting for the Night Music by SARAH HARRIS WALLMAN
Poetry
Season of Tourists | Military Maneuvers, South of Drowning Creek | Passage by SUSAN LAUGHTER MEYERS
The Dolls’ House | Go by NADINE SABRA MEYER
For the Lights of Southwest Roanoke County by NATHAN FRIEDMAN
Red Tractor | Loretta Wray by TERRI KIRBY ERICKSON
In Defense of Mountains by JENNY Z. WU
His Knives by JOHN STANFORD OWEN
The Abduction by SARAH SWEENEY
A Catalogue of What You Have | How to Cure by REBECCA GAYLE HOWELL
Nonfiction
Losing Dixie by B.J. HOLLARS
Reviews
David Orr’s ‘Beautiful & pointless’ by SHAWN DELGADO
Rachael Peckham’s ‘Muck Fire’ by JESSICA PLANTE
Camille Dungy’s ‘Suck on the Marrow’ by JOELLEN CRAFT
“A Woman So Dumb and So Fierce”: Rachel Marie Patterson’s ‘If I Am Burning’ by JULIE BROOKS BARBOUR
Full listing of past issues...
1 November 2012.
Just posted: Julie Brooks Barbour’s ‘Come to Me and Drink’ by Jennifer Whitaker
15 October 2012.
Just posted: Craig Nova introduces his latest novel, The Constant Heart.
15 September 2012.
Just posted: storySouth’s Spring 2012 issue, including new poetry from Kathleen Kirk, new fiction from Jason Ockert, reviews of new work by Ira Sadoff and John Thomas York.
15 March 2012.
Just posted: storySouth’s Spring 2012 issue, including new poetry from Nadine Sabra Meyer, new fiction from Valerie Nieman, new nonfiction from B.J. HOLLARS, and a special feature on Katie Chaple, including an interview by Shawn Delgado .
15 September 2011.
Just posted: storySouth’s Fall 2011 issue, including new poetry from Charlotte Matthews, new fiction from Jennifer Cranfill, new nonfiction from S.J. Brooks, and an excerpt from Aaron Gilbreath’s novel Run, Chicken, Run.
15 June 2011.
Just posted: Valerie Nieman’s ‘Blood Clay’ by Ben Klinkner
15 April 2011.
Just posted: Matt Hart’s ‘Wolf Face’ by Tony Aarts.
15 April 2011.
Just posted: Nate Pritts’ ‘Big Bright Sun’ by Tony Aarts.
1 April 2011.
Just posted: a review of Joshua Poteat’s Illustrating the Machine that Makes the World by Andrew McFadyen-Ketchum.
15 March 2011.
Just posted: storySouth’s Spring 2011 issue, including new poetry from Dan O’Brien, new fiction from Katherine L. Hester, new nonfiction from Chris Tusa, and a special feature on poet Jay Rogoff.
15 January 2011.
Just posted: a review of Joshua Ferris’ The Unnamed by Wilson McBee.
15 December 2010.
Just posted: a review of Melody Gee’s Each Crumbling House by Lauren Moseley.
1 December 2010.
Just posted: a review of Mike Smith’s Multiverse by Tony Aarts.
15 November 2010.
Just posted: a review of Bianca Diaz’s No One Says ‘Kin’ Anymore by Stefanie Silva.
1 November 2010.
Just posted: a review of Kevin Clark’s Self-Portrait with Expletives by Ryland Bowman.
15 September 2010.
Just posted: storySouth’s Fall 2010 issue, including new poems from Brian Spears, new fiction from Sheryl Monks, and creative nonfiction from Michael Parker.
15 March 2010.
Just posted: storySouth’s Spring 2010 issue, including new poems from David Blair, new fiction from Willie Davis, creative nonfiction from Lee Zacharias and an interview with Kevin Boyle.
1 February 2010.
Just posted: Congratulations to Chris Bachelder and Kyle Booten for being selected for inclusion in Dzank Books' Best of the Web 2010.
1 January 2010.
Just posted: storySouth Issue 28 in Kindle format.