{"id":167441,"date":"2026-11-04T13:24:03","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T19:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=167441"},"modified":"2026-11-04T13:24:05","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T19:24:05","slug":"square-books-presents-robin-miura-and-exodus-oktavia-brownlow-for-new-stories-from-the-south-on-thacker-mountain-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/square-books-presents-robin-miura-and-exodus-oktavia-brownlow-for-new-stories-from-the-south-on-thacker-mountain-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"Square Books presents Robin Miura and Exodus Oktavia Brownlow for New Stories from the South on Thacker Mountain Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Thursday, November 5 at The Powerhouse with musical guests Trenton Ayers &amp; Wolfeagle, plus Huey &amp; The Heaven Sent.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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 <strong>Silas House<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It marks the much-anticipated return of the annual story collection, gathering outstanding short stories written by Southern writers or about the <strong>American South<\/strong>. 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Exodus-Oktavia-Brownlow.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"851\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Exodus-Oktavia-Brownlow.png?resize=640%2C851&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-167447\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.7516813752829632;width:216px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Exodus-Oktavia-Brownlow.png?w=678&amp;ssl=1 678w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Exodus-Oktavia-Brownlow.png?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Exodus Oktavia Brownlow.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Exodus Oktavia Brownlow<\/strong> is a <strong>Blackhawk, Mississippi<\/strong> native, writer, editor, fashion designer, and sewist. She holds a BA in English from <strong>Mississippi Valley State University<\/strong> and an MFA in Creative Writing from <strong>Mississippi University for Women<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An associate editor at <strong>Fractured Lit <\/strong>and editor-in-chief of <strong>The Loveliest Review<\/strong>, her work appears in <strong>Electric Lit, West Branch, Denver Quarterly, F(r)iction, BOOTH, CRAFT<\/strong>, and elsewhere. Her pieces were featured in <strong>Best MicroFiction<\/strong> 2021 and 2022, the <strong>Wigleaf <\/strong>Top 50 2022, and notable in<strong> The Best American Essays<\/strong> 2024. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Her debut short story collection, <em><strong>When It Gets Cold in the South<\/strong><\/em>, is forthcoming from Screen Door Press in 2027. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Robin-Miura.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"629\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Robin-Miura.png?resize=640%2C629&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-167448\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.0167351233918327;width:246px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Robin-Miura.png?w=913&amp;ssl=1 913w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Robin-Miura.png?resize=300%2C295&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Robin-Miura.png?resize=768%2C755&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Robin Muira.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Robin Miura<\/strong> is Editorial Director at <strong>Blair<\/strong>. She has worked in publishing for more than 25 years, first as a production editor for <strong>Oxford University Press<\/strong> and then as a freelance editor, proofreader, publishing consultant, and writing coach for publishing companies and individual authors. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Robin\u2019s freelance clients have included <strong>Algonquin Books, Oxford University Press, Duke University Press<\/strong>, and <strong>University of North Carolina Press<\/strong>. She is also a founding editor of the online magazine<strong> South Writ Large<\/strong>. She lives in <strong>Clayton, North Carolina<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14544\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, November 5 at The Powerhouse with musical guests Trenton Ayers &amp; Wolfeagle, plus Huey &amp; The Heaven<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":167444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19,17072,52,25019,35027],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-167441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-local-radio","category-music-shows","category-thacker-mountain-radio","category-upcoming-events"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/Thacker-1105.jpg?fit=877%2C895&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167441"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167457,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167441\/revisions\/167457"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}