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Our featured author for Winter 15.1 is Sarah Matthes. Her debut collection of poetry Town Crier (Persea, 2021) won the Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize and was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award. Read her work at barelysouthreview.com

It’s a new year and we’re gearing up for our next reading period. Start preparing your best work to submit for our Spring Issue. We look forward to reading your work!

Todays the day! Submissions are now open! Send us your flash, nonfiction, fiction, poetry, and art. *NEW* As of this upcoming issue, we are now accepting Lit Comix. See our Submittable page for more details on each genre. 📖

Lit Comix is a brand new addition to our genre submission pool. We are looking for quality, creativity, and of course, an original set of panels that tells a story with a literary edge. We accept up to 19 panels. Shown: work by EG Shields, Fall Pre-Issue ‘23.

We’re looking forward to seeing you at the Book Fair this year at AWP in Kansas City! Be sure to stop by and meet some of the staff. 📚Safe travels! #awp24

Come find us at the AWP Book Fair this week! We’re located at table T3203. We’ve got some notebooks, a mini issue, and some awesome T-shirts. 📚✨We can’t wait to meet you! #awp #awpbookfair #awpbookfair24

An interview with Brian Turner is now live on our website. Read it today—see the link in our bio. “Craft Chat, An Interview with Brian Turner” by Megan Pastore, Senior Poetry Editor @turners_lens @The_ManicWriter

Don’t miss it… our Spring Pre-issue is live today! Thank you to all of our contributors, readers, and editors. 📖 ✨ 🐠 Just a reminder: Subs are still open until 3/15 for our spring issue. Please submit your best fiction, poetry, nonfiction, flash, and lit comix!

This Friday, we’re releasing our long awaited alumni issue 15.2. We’ll be featuring a few alumni from our program as well as some other amazing work from talented writers. We hope you’ll check it out! ✨ #litmag #litmagazine #literarymagazine #litmagsofinstagram

It’s finally here! Check out our latest Issue 15.2 on our website! Thank you to our contributors and everyone involved with publication! We hope you enjoy reading 📖 #litmag #litmagazine #literarymagazine

BSR’s Summer Non-Fiction Writing Contest invites all creative non-fiction that is previously unpublished, original, and under 5,000 words. The winner will receive $300 and publication! Submissions open: 6/1 - 7/31. How to submit: barelysouthreview.com/submit

We’re in Iowa City this month! Come find us at the lovely and local Press Coffee @presscoffee_ic Submit to our nonfiction writing contest open through 7/31. Have your work read by the amazing anna mclintock and there’s a chance to win $300! iowacitywriters #iowacitywriters

Time is running out! ⏰ One more month left to submit to our nonfiction writing contest (open through 7/31.) Have your work read by the amazing anna mclintock and there’s a chance to win $300! See more details on our submission page. We can’t wait to read your work!

Don’t delay! Send us your best CNF essays via the submissions page on our website for a chance to win and get published with BSR!!

It’s official…it’s 9/1 and subs are open now until November 1 for our Winter Issue. We can’t wait to see your work! #litmag #litmagazine #literarymagazine #litmagsubmission #litmagsofinstagram #submissionsopen #writingsubmissions #literarysubmissions #litmag #litmagazine

Our 2024 BSR Nonfiction Writing Contest Winner: Rhonda Zimlich!@RhondaZimlich Anna Qu described the piece as “stunning.” Keep an eye out for Rhonda’s work in our forthcoming pre-issue. Thank you to all the amazing writers who submitted to this contest.

Friday we drop our Winter 2025 Pre-Issue with an impressive line-up: Featured Artist: Jaina Cipriano Jaina Cipriano An interview with Anna Qu Nonfiction Contest Winner: Rhonda Zimlich Work by: Jessica Fokken, Lea Grover, Avery Greenburg, K. Rouisse, and Angus Woodard

It’s here! LIVE today on our website. ⚡️ Our Winter 2025 Pre-Issue includes: Featured Artist: Jaina Cipriano Jaina Cipriano An interview with Anna Qu CNF Contest Winner: Rhonda Zimlich Work by: Jessica Fokken, Lea Grover, Avery Greenburg, K. Rouisse, and Angus Woodard

Check out our latest interview with Dolen Perkins-Valdez! Link in our story or visit the Interview and Reviews tab on BSR’s website. Happy Reading! Dolen

We are so happy to announce that our Summer Nonfiction Contest ($300 Prize) is now open for submissions! Give us your best essays in under 5,000 words! You can view our submission guidelines here: barelysouth.submittable.com/submit/294580/… We look forward to seeing your work!