Southern Humanities Review issue 58.3 features the 2025 Auburn Witness Poetry Prize winner, Hana Widerman, and her poem “Collage of Wreckage.” Judge Nicole Sealey also selected Leila Farjami and Caroline Harper New as runners-up. Other finalists include Heather Jessen, Maggie Nipps, Janice Lobo Sapigao, Ellen Sazzman, Ajibola Tolase, and Issam Zineh.
The rest of the issue is filled with poetry by Clayton Spencer; nonfiction by Chaya Bhuvaneswar and Timothy Cook; fiction by Edidiong Uzoma Essien, Theodore McCombs, Julie Pecoraro, and Laura Spence-Ash; with cover art by Kansuke Morioka.
On October 23, 2025, Southern Humanities Review will celebrate the twelfth year of the Auburn Witness Poetry Prize at an event presented by the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art with the judge and winner in conversation.
