Excited to announce the Editor's Choice Longlist! You'll find these excellent pieces in our recently released city | country issue: www.south85journal.com/table-of-con... CONGRATULATIONS!!
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South 85 Journal is a semi-annual online literary journal run by the Converse University Low-Residency MFA Program. We publish fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and interviews, by new, emerging, and well-established writers.
This is a special issue of @south85journal.bsky.social because it's my first as assistant poetry editor! 💜💛 I might be biased (I am), but this issue is really good: south85journal.com/table-of-contents-2
South 85 Journal@south85journal.bsky.social · 2w agoOFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT! The Fall/Winter 2026 issue of South 85 is LIVE!! Amazing responses to our open-ended prompt of city | country & we're excited about our new ekphrasis section! Oh, and the featured photographs are 🔥! All the riches here: www.south85journal.com/table-of-con...
OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT! The Fall/Winter 2026 issue of South 85 is LIVE!! Amazing responses to our open-ended prompt of city | country & we're excited about our new ekphrasis section! Oh, and the featured photographs are 🔥! All the riches here: www.south85journal.com/table-of-con...
I am so thrilled to see my work in the gorgeous new issue of @south85journal.bsky.social! I had the best time serving as Artist-in-Residence for it. Pls check out my portfolio & artist statement & read the amazing writing in this special issue! www.south85journal.com/artists-stat...
Tuck into the Nebraska hills with me. Pull the pines up and over our bodies like a blanket. Grateful to have this one I wrote for Holly find its true home @south85journal.bsky.social www.south85journal.com/dream-home/
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Thank you for sharing your prose & poetry with us. We've made our selections and are working on pulling together the fall/winter issue: city | country. If you haven't heard back from us about your submission, please email (address on the site). WE APPRECIATE ALL Y'ALL WRITERS!
Congratulations to these excellent writers, whose work we've just nominated for Best of the Net!
That's a wrap on our submission period! Thanks to all for trusting us with your work. Our plan to for every writer to hear from us by 9/30. Contact us if you have any questions & with your "accepted elsewhere" work through Submittable. (email on website)
Thanks to assistant poetry editor @rkalagayanpoet.bsky.social for this interview w/ hybrid writer Beth Gilstrap: <I could not fathom working on a long project. Or even a traditional short story. But I could get 500 words down most of the time & I kept going>. south85journal.com/2026/07/fiel...
The poetry queue is filling up fast...one week plus change to go! Send us your P/F/CNF/flash prose by 8/1. Theme: CITY | COUNTRY (open-ended) Details: south85journal.com/submissions/ Pics:
Whatcha writing? Can we read it? Subs open until 8/1 ~ open-ended theme of CITY | COUNTRY ~ $100 to 1 published piece ~ at least 2 readers will see your work Photo by our artist-in-residence, Maureen Langloss. www.south85journal.com
19 days to get your work in (and today's already half-over 😬) We want your fiction/poetry/CNF/flash prose with a LOOSE (or firm) connection to our theme: CITY | COUNTRY We nominate for prizes, accept only from the queue, and give 1 piece $100. www.south85journal.com/submissions/
Interview up w/ SC short story writer Kyler Campbell: <My goal was to show that the Lowcountry is way more than just Charleston. I wanted to go into the working, blue-collar Lowcountry.> www.south85journal.com/2026/07/the-...
Too hot to do anything except submit your work! We're reading poetry / fiction / flash prose / CNF through 8/1. Theme = CITY | COUNTRY We nominate, award $100 to 1 published piece, take only work from the queue. www.south85journal.com/submissions/ Photos by @maureenlangloss.bsky.social
New interview w/ novelist Dan Leach: "My life has always been chaotic. You can respond to that chaos by saying, “I don’t have time to write at all b/c I need a large block of uninterrupted time.” But if I took that approach, I would never write." www.south85journal.com/2026/06/writ...
We're "listing of the day" at @duotrope.com! Whatcha got for us on the theme of CITY | COUNTRY??? ~$100 for ONE published piece ~all work from the queue ~we nominate for prizes www.south85journal.com/submissions/
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Duotrope@duotrope.com · 4mo agoToday's listing of the day is: South 85 Journal (fee-based) #WritingCommunity
"What's the procedure!?!" ~ Not to worry, Michael...it's right here: south85journal.com/submissions/ And remain calm: We're open for your submissions through 8/1.
New interview with @emmagstephens.bsky.social up @south85journal.bsky.social !! Would LOVE if you gave us a read. ❣️ 🔗: south85journal.com/2026/06/godh...
New interview by @rkalagayanpoet.bsky.social w/ poet Emma Galloway Stephens: <My habit is to write poems about subjects that trouble or puzzle me. In this way, writing feels a bit like praying. It’s an inherently spiritual process to me.> south85journal.com/2026/06/godh...
Send us your work!!! We've got an enthusiastic faculty editor & reading team ~ all work comes from the queue ~ we nominate for prizes ~ $100 for 1 published piece Subs open through 8/1 south85journal.com
This is my very first issue as assistant poetry editor, so PLEASE submit your poems; I can’t wait to read them! 🤗
South 85 Journal@south85journal.bsky.social · 4mo agoWe'll be open for submissions on 6/18!!!! Guidelines are here (south85journal.com/submissions/) and our theme is city | country (meant to be open-ended). CAN'T WAIT TO SEE YOUR WORK!
We'll be open for submissions on 6/18!!!! Guidelines are here (south85journal.com/submissions/) and our theme is city | country (meant to be open-ended). CAN'T WAIT TO SEE YOUR WORK!
Thrilled to announce that @maureenlangloss.bsky.social is the new South 85 artist-in-residence, currently working on material for our fall\winter issue, with the theme CITY | COUNTRY. Watch for her photos...here's a quick peek of her beautiful work! (We open for subs on 6/18...details soon)
New interview posted w/ novelist Yance Wyatt who may or may not be a "southern writer"...all depends on the Waffle House order! www.south85journal.com/2026/06/the-...
