Guide to Literary Magazines
Southern Humanities Review
9088 Haley Center
Auburn University
Auburn, AL 36830
Phone: (334) 844-9088
E-mail: shrengl <at> auburn <dot> edu
Web: www.auburn.edu/english/shr/home.htm
Simultaneous submissions: no Email submissions: no Reading period: year-round Response time: 1-3 months Payment: copies Contests: no ISSN: 0038-4186 Founded: 1967 Issues per year: 4 Average pages: 104 Sample copy (postpaid): $5, $7 non-US Cover Price: $5 Subscription: $15; $20 non-US
Publisher’s Description: The Southern Humanities Review was founded in 1967 as the official organ of the Southern Humanities Council, with which it remains affiliated. National and international in scope, SHR publishes fiction, poetry, personal and critical essays, and book reviews on the arts, literature, philosophy, religion, cultural studies, and history. Translations in all genres have also appeared in the journal. Our pages feature both established veterans and promising new writers. Our aim is to rediscover and revisit our cultural heritage and to participate in charting the future course of the humanities by bringing that heritage sharply into question. Contributors have included Elfriede Jelinek, Vincent Descombes, Christopher Norris, Sheryl St. Germain, Lee Zacharias, Kent Nelson, Donald Hall, R. T. Smith, Bin Ramke, Andrew Hudgins, Nanci Kincaid, Walt McDonald, and David Citino. Selections from SHR have been anthologized or have received honorable mention in New Stories from the South and Best American Essays, and have been reprinted in numerous critical editions.
The Southern Humanities Review is published quarterly in association with the Auburn University English Department. The Editors’ Comment of each Winter issue announces the recipients of the Theodore Christian Hoepfner Awards for the best essay, story, and poem published in the previous year.
Recent issues:
43.3, the Summer 2009 edition of Southern Humanities Review, contains essays by Craig Watson and Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum; Fiction by Charles Rose, Dave Peters, and Thomas P. Balazs; and poetry by John Tottenham, Karen Hildebrand, Margaret Mackinnon, Naomi Ruth Lowinsky, Marvyn Petrucci, Jay Rogoff, Doug Ramspeck, Kent Maynard, Jim Murphy, Jackie Bartley, and Daniel Polikoff. Also included are book reviews and the minutes to the Southern Humanities Council, 2009.
43.2, Spring 2009 features Robert Pirro’s response to Botho Strauss’s essay “Goat Song Rising”; Desirae Matherly's “The Denser of the Two” a meditation on physiological and psychological changes wrought by pregnancy. The stranded women in Elizabeth Gray's story “Breakdown” must choose between paranoia and trust. Eric Trethewey's archetypal “By the Wolf” depicts men wandering into a rural dive with a possibly sinister clientele. The book reviews discuss, among other topics, Heidegger’s reflections on poetry; the thoughts of Deleuze on metaphors of root and rhizome; and a neo-ecological account of our wounded, sacred earth.