In Oakland Cemetery After Mary Szybist You asked where to meet and I told you there so we could be as alone as the dead are. I was sure I...

Petland 1 Every day there’s new, weird trash in this overgrown field between my apartment complex and the interstate. A rusty wheelchair,...

Initial Sightings West of Modern Appalachia I have begun obsessing over otherwise uninteresting things like the shape of my own skull the...

[who are you] who are you to say we are the lucky ones - perhaps we are the bedamned, the beflighted - to have one more day through the...

✧ Winner of the 2021 Southeast Review Art Contest ✧ Selected by Ming Ying Hong Lauren Rice Moon Shapes, 2019 acrylic, gouache, graphite...

And And the birds waiting to shit on people’s heads at Broadway Junction. And the army recruiters behind the table telling black teens...

The Ghost Road 1 After we’ve been at the cabin for a few days, my son, just past his sixth birthday, starts fashioning our moments into...

Alligator Alley SHELLY STEWART CATO is the winner of Jabberwock Review’s 2021 Nancy D. Hargrove Editors’ Prize for Poetry, and was a...

✧ Finalist for the 2021 World's Best Short-Short Story Contest ✧ Selected by Robert Olen Butler Chainmail Bikini The first months I spent...

2021 Contest Winners & Finalists GEARHART POETRY CONTEST Judged by Rosebud Ben-Oni ——— contest winner ——— Bret Yamanaka,「Obake Obachan」...

Masthead Southeast Review, Volume 40.2 EDITOR Laura Biagi (@LauraJBiagi) ASSISTANT EDITOR Amanda Hadlock (@AmandaHadlock2) ART EDITOR...

Marynka Dovhanych February 26—Day 3 Living under constant threat evokes extremely intense emotions. I have found out what rage really...

An Interview with dg nanouk okpik Olga Mexina dg nanouk okpik was born in Anchorage, Alaska, in 1966. She graduated from Salish Kootenai...

Skulls and Sharp-Petaled Roses The drive to the prison is beautiful once you leave the city. Highway 101 follows the Puget Sound’s west...

de Les gestes de la neige Au centre du monde se situait la fourche amoureuse du cou, ta clavicule métaphysique En nidification je suis...

An Interview with Travis Chi Wing Lau Savannah Trent Travis Chi Wing Lau is an assistant professor of English at Kenyon College; his...

The Mouse and the Elephant Nora sat hammering a rock, calves in the dirt like a kid at recess. She missed a lot in translation—whether...

Folklorn by Angela Mi Young Hur So Young Koo An interwoven quilt of myths, hallucinations, and personal tales, Angela Hur’s novel...

Photo of the author, Mónice Gomery--short haired with big gold hoop earrings--standing before a the sea, which is blurry behind Gomery

The World’s Best Short-Short Story Contest Explained Hello! In this video you’ll find a brief but compelling lecture from Robert Olen...