Thursday, November 5 at The Powerhouse with musical guests Trenton Ayers & Wolfeagle, plus Huey & The Heaven Sent.
New Stories from the South 2026 is the revival of an iconic anthology of best Southern short stories featuring eminent and emerging voices, with an introduction by Appalachian writer Silas House.
It marks the much-anticipated return of the annual story collection, gathering outstanding short stories written by Southern writers or about the American South. Stories were nominated by editors of literary journals and magazines, publishers of short story collections, and by prominent Southern writers who served as contributing editors for this volume.
Exodus Oktavia Brownlow is a Blackhawk, Mississippi native, writer, editor, fashion designer, and sewist. She holds a BA in English from Mississippi Valley State University and an MFA in Creative Writing from Mississippi University for Women.
An associate editor at Fractured Lit and editor-in-chief of The Loveliest Review, her work appears in Electric Lit, West Branch, Denver Quarterly, F(r)iction, BOOTH, CRAFT, and elsewhere. Her pieces were featured in Best MicroFiction 2021 and 2022, the Wigleaf Top 50 2022, and notable in The Best American Essays 2024.
Her debut short story collection, When It Gets Cold in the South, is forthcoming from Screen Door Press in 2027.
Robin Miura is Editorial Director at Blair. She has worked in publishing for more than 25 years, first as a production editor for Oxford University Press and then as a freelance editor, proofreader, publishing consultant, and writing coach for publishing companies and individual authors.
Robin’s freelance clients have included Algonquin Books, Oxford University Press, Duke University Press, and University of North Carolina Press. She is also a founding editor of the online magazine South Writ Large. She lives in Clayton, North Carolina.
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