James Dickey Review is a literary and scholarly publication under the general editorship of Casey Clabough.

The JDR was founded by Joyce Pair as the James Dickey Newsletter at DeKalb College in 1984. Its Founding Editorial Board included Matthew J. Bruccoli, Louis D. Rubin, Jr., Dave Smith, and Monroe K.Spears, among others. In 2007 the magazine moved to the University of South Carolina

University of South Carolina

The University of South Carolina is a public, co-educational research university located in Columbia, South Carolina, United States, with 7 surrounding satellite campuses. Its historic campus covers over in downtown Columbia not far from the South Carolina State House...

. Currently administered at Lynchburg College

Lynchburg College

Lynchburg College is a private college in Lynchburg, Virginia, USA, related by covenant to the Christian Church with approximately 2,500 undergraduate and graduate students. The Princeton Review lists it as one of the 368 best colleges in the nation...

 and collaborating with Sweet Briar College

Sweet Briar College

Sweet Briar College is a liberal arts women's college in Sweet Briar, Virginia, about north of Lynchburg, Virginia. The school's Latin motto translates as: "She who has earned the rose may bear it."...

, the JDR publishes biannually in the fall and spring. Its current roster of Advising/Contributing Editors includes such writers as David Bottoms

David Bottoms

David Bottoms is an American poet.-Biography:Bottoms' first book, Shooting Rats at the Bibb County Dump, was selected by Robert Penn Warren as winner of the 1979 Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets...

, Fred Chappell

Fred Chappell

Fred Davis Chappell is an author and poet. He retired after 40 years as an English professor at University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He was the Poet Laureate of North Carolina from 1997-2002...

, Pat Conroy

Pat Conroy

Pat Conroy , is a New York Times bestselling author who has written several acclaimed novels and memoirs. Two of his novels, The Prince of Tides and The Great Santini, were made into Oscar-nominated films.-Early life:...

, and Ron Rash

Ron Rash

Ron Rash , an American poet, short story writer and novelist, is the Parris Distinguished Professor in Appalachian Cultural Studies at Western Carolina University. Rash was born in Chester, South Carolina, in 1953, grew up in Boiling Springs, North Carolina, and is a graduate of Gardner-Webb...

.

The magazine traditionally includes writings about and by James Dickey

James Dickey

James Lafayette Dickey was an American poet and novelist. He was appointed the eighteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1966.-Early years:...

, a major American poet and novelist of the twentieth century, and author of the popular novel

Deliverance (novel)

Deliverance is a 1970 novel by James Dickey, his first. It was adapted into a 1972 film by director John Boorman. In 1998, the editors of the Modern Library selected Deliverance as #42 on their list of the 100 best 20th-Century novels...

 and film, Deliverance

Deliverance

Deliverance is a 1972 American thriller film produced and directed by John Boorman. Principal cast members include Jon Voight, Burt Reynolds, Ronny Cox and Ned Beatty in his film debut. The film is based on a 1970 novel of the same name by American author James Dickey, who has a small role in the...

. However, it has broadened its scope to include creative nonfiction pieces, scholarly writing, poetry, and book reviews on more general topics. The JDR maintains that pieces it publishes may be inspired by Dickey's themes, but are not limited to them. Common content focuses on articulations of the South and Appalachia, nature, ecocriticism, masculinity, dysfunctional human relationships, and rural poverty.

Contributors in recent years include R. H. W. Dillard

R. H. W. Dillard

Richard Henry Wilde Dillard is an American poet, author, critic, and translator.Born in Roanoke, Virginia, Dillard is best known as a poet. He is also highly-regarded as a writer of fiction and critical essays, as well as one of the screenwriters for the cult classic Frankenstein Meets the Space...

, George Garrett

George Garrett (poet)

George Palmer Garrett. was an American poet and novelist. He was the Poet Laureate of Virginia from 2002 to 2006. His novels include The Finished Man, Double Vision, and the Elizabethan Trilogy, composed of Death of the Fox, The Succession, and Entered from the Sun...

, Laurence Lieberman

Laurence Lieberman

Laurence James Lieberman is an American poet and professor.Born February 16, 1935, in Detroit, Michigan, he studied at the University of Michigan, and did graduate study at the University of California, Berkeley...

, R.T. Smith, Henry Taylor, and others.