The Southern Humanities Review is a quarterly literary journal

Literary magazine

A literary magazine is a periodical devoted to literature in a broad sense. Literary magazines usually publish short stories, poetry and essays along with literary criticism, book reviews, biographical profiles of authors, interviews and letters...

 published by Auburn University

Auburn University

Auburn University is a public university located in Auburn, Alabama, United States. With more than 25,000 students and 1,200 faculty members, it is one of the largest universities in the state. Auburn was chartered on February 7, 1856, as the East Alabama Male College, a private liberal arts...

 . The current editors are Dan Latimer and Chantel Acevedo. It publishes fiction, poetry, critical essays, and book reviews on the arts, literature, philosophy, religion, and history. The journal was established in 1967 as the official organ of the Southern Humanities Council, with which it remains affiliated.

Abstracting and indexing

The Southern Humanities Review is abstracted and indexed in Academic Search Premier, American Humanities Index, Bulletin of Research in the Humanities, Book Review Index, Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature, MLA International Bibliography

Modern Language Association

The Modern Language Association of America is the principal professional association in the United States for scholars of language and literature...

, Abstracts of English Studies, Literary Criticism Register, and Abstracts of Popular Culture.

Work published in SHR is considered for Best American Essays, The Art of the Essay, Best American Poetry, Best American Short Stories, New Stories from the South, Prize Stories: O. Henry Awards, and The Pushcart Prize.

Theodore Christian Hoepfner Awards

Each year SHR awards the prestigious Theodore Christian Hoepfner Awards for the best piece of prose published in the journal each year.

Notable contributors

Noteworthy contributors include A. Manette Ansay

A. Manette Ansay

A. Manette Ansay is an American author, born in Lapeer, Michigan.-Fiction:*Vinegar Hill *Read This and Tell Me What It Says *Sister *River Angel *Midnight Champagne *Blue Water...

, Jacob M. Appel

Jacob M. Appel

Jacob M. Appel is an American author, bioethicist and social critic. He is best known for his short stories, his work as a playwright, and his writing in the fields of reproductive ethics, organ donation, neuroethics and euthanasia....

, Stephen Dunn

Stephen Dunn

Stephen Dunn is an American poet. Dunn has written fifteen collections of poetry. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his 2001 collection, Different Hours and has received an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Dunn completed his B.A. in English at...

, Jesse Lee Kercheval

Jesse Lee Kercheval

Jesse Lee Kercheval is an American academic and writer. She is a writing teacher at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She has authored several books of various genres, notably Building Fiction, The Museum of Happiness, and The Dogeater....

, Ricardo Pau-llosa

Ricardo Pau-Llosa

Ricardo Pau-Llosa is a Cuban-American poet, art critic of Latin American art in the US and Europe, and author of short fiction.-Life:...

, Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates

Joyce Carol Oates is an American author. Oates published her first book in 1963 and has since published over fifty novels, as well as many volumes of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction...

, R. T. Smith

R. T. Smith

R. T. Smith is an award-winning poet, fiction writer, and editor. The author of twelve poetry collections and a collection of short fiction, Smith is the editor of Shenandoah, a prestigious literary journal published by Washington and Lee University...

, Natasha Trethewey

Natasha Trethewey

Natasha Trethewey is an American poet who won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in poetry for her 2006 collection, Native Guard.Trethewey was born in Gulfport, Mississippi. She earned the A.B. in English from the University of Georgia, an M.A. in poetry from Hollins University, and an M.F.A. in poetry from...

, and Robert Clark Young

Robert Clark Young

Robert Clark Young is an American author of novels, essays, short stories and journalism. Recurring themes in Young's fiction include the relation between alcoholism, the abuse of power, and institutional dysfunction in American life, while his nonfiction has recently focused on eldercare topics...

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