Seventeen stories by Alison Baker, Larry Brown, Mary Ward Brown, James Lee Burke, Robert Olen Butler, Nanci Kincaid, Patricia Lear, Dan Leone, Reginald McKnight, Karen Minton, Elizabeth Seydel Morgan, Robert Morgan, Susan Perabo, Padgett Powell, Lee ...
Eighteen stories by Richard Bausch, Pinckney Benedict, Wendell Berry, Robert Olen Butler, Lee Merrill Byrd, Kevin Calder, Tony Earley, Paula K. Gover, David Huddle, Barbara Hudson, Elizabeth Hunnewell, Dennis Loy Johnson, Edward Jones, Wayne Karlin, ...
Sixteen stories by Frederick Barthelme, Richard Bausch, Ethan Canin, Kathleen Cushman, Tony Earley, Pamela Erbe, Barry Hannah, Nanci Kincaid, Nancy Krusoe, Robert Morgan, Reynolds Price, Leon Rooke, John Sayles, George Singleton, Melanie Sumner, and...
The authors in the 1995 volume of NEW STORIES include R. Sebastian Bennett, Wendy Brenner, James Lee Burke, Robert Olen Butler, Ken Craven, Tim Gautreaux, Ellen Gilchrist, Scott Gould, Barry Hannah, MMM Hayes, Hillary Hebert, Jesse Lee Kercheval, Car...
Since 1986, New Stories from the South has brought the best short fiction of the year to the attention of a national audience. The series has been called “the collection others should use as a model” (the Charlotte Observer), and for twenty year...
Along with a new story by William Faulkner, the authors of the 1996 edition include Robert Olen Butler, Moira Crone, Janice Daugharty, J. D. Dolan, Ellen Douglas, Kathy Flann, Tim Gautreaux, David Gilbert, Marica Guthridge, Jill McCorkle, Robert Mor...
The twelfth volume of the annual anthology is packed with nineteen entertaining stories. From a cautionary tale about the difficulties of loving a space alien to a new twist on a young Southerner's struggle in the wilds of Manhattan, these stories ra...
THE ONLY ANNUAL ANTHOLOGY SHOWCASING THE BEST SHORT FICTION WRITTEN IN AND ABOUT THE SOUTH. With a preface by Padgett Powell. The thirteenth edition of NEW STORIES FROM THE SOUTH proves that literature from and about the South continues to evolve. W...
It was an anthology that began simply enough: as a way to gather together the best kinds of writing going on in the South. It was also a way, back then, for editor Shannon Ravenel to keep tabs on who was writing what. Some of those voices that she h...
Whether it's the bodybuilder who picks up energy in the air, the rich girl who sees potential in the beer-drinking factory worker at her father's cardboard plant, the girl who turns against her evangelist father to find the real Jesus, the aunt with...
Many famous writers later (James Lee Burke, Barbara Kingsolver, Larry Brown, Tony Earley, William Gay), Ravenel still combs through over one hundred journals and magazines, regional and national, large and small, in search of the most talented author...
As it approaches its twentieth year, Shannon Ravenel's anthology has taken on a kind of cult status among readers, writers, teachers of short fiction, and trend watchers. It was here that some of the most well-respected voices of the last two decade...
Since 1986, New Stories from the South has brought the best short fiction of the year to the attention of a national audience. The series has been called “the collection others should use as a model” (the Charlotte Observer), and for twenty years...