Southern Review of Books

The Southern Review of Books is a publication of the MFA program at Queens University of Charlotte. Founded in 2020 and based in Charlotte, North Carolina, we explore contemporary literature of the American South and beyond.

The In-Betweens: A Lyrical Memoir
Composition
When Trying to Return Home: Stories
The House of Eve
A Darker Wilderness: Black Nature Writing from Soil to Stars
Gone Like Yesterday
I'm Always So Serious
Time's Undoing
The Villa
The Kudzu Queen
Moonrise Over New Jessup
Short Film Starring My Beloved's Red Bronco
Leviathan: A Poem
Everybody Knows
How to Sell a Haunted House
Decent People
Wade in the Water
Judas Goat: Poems
The Faraway World: Stories
Black on Black: On Our Resilience and Brilliance in America (Original)
Traces
How It Went: Thirteen More Stories of the Port William Membership
Now Is Not the Time to Panic
Engine Running: Essays
I Am the Light of This World
Making Our Future: Visionary Folklore and Everyday Culture in Appalachia
A Long Time to Be Gone
Because the World Is Round
Curing Season: Artifacts
It Falls Gently All Around and Other Stories
I've Had to Think Up a Way to Survive: On Trauma, Persistence, and Dolly Parton
Against the Woods' Dark Trunks: Poems
Daughters of the New Year (Original)
The Hollow Kind
Landings: A Crooked Creek Farm Year
Beasts of the Earth
What the Jaguar Told Her
The Tiger and the Cage: A Memoir of a Body in Crisis
Loving the Dead and Gone
The Marsh Queen
The Gospel of Rot
The Birdcatcher
In the Hands of the River
Black Swim
So Tall It Ends in Heaven: Poems
The Old Place
The Last Dreamwalker
Lark Ascending
Storied & Scandalous Charleston: A History of Piracy and Prohibition, Rebellion and Revolution
Foote: A Mystery Novel
Walking Gentry Home: A Memoir of My Foremothers in Verse
Doll Apollo: Poems
Bright: A Memoir
The Last Karankawas
Black Folk Could Fly: Selected Writings by Randall Kenan
Other Birds
Diary of a Misfit: A Memoir and a Mystery
The Light Always Breaks
The Burning Season
Ramadan Ramsey
Wake the Bones
Pretty Baby: A Memoir
Music and Mystique in Muscle Shoals
Calling for a Blanket Dance
I Came All This Way to Meet You: Writing Myself Home
High-Risk Homosexual: A Memoir
Sticker
Perpetual West
Don't Cry for Me (Original)
Headless John the Baptist Hitchhiking: Poems
Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place
Queer Country
Thresh & Hold
Y'All Means All: The Emerging Voices Queering Appalachia
I Kissed Shara Wheeler
Trailed: One Woman's Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders
Sinkhole
The Golden Season (Original)
The Kingdom of Sand
A Year Without Months
Valleyesque: Stories
I Kissed Shara Wheeler
Antipodes: Stories
Saint Sebastian's Abyss
In the Lonely Backwater
South Writ Large: Stories from the Global South
The Crocodile Bride
The Golden Season (Original)
Lioness
Memphis
Song for Almeyda and Song for Anninho
Two Brown Dots
Y'All Means All: The Emerging Voices Queering Appalachia
Gossypiin
Bomb Shelter: Love, Time, and Other Explosives
Sing Her Name
Wingwalkers
Field Notes from the Flood Zone
Landscape with Bloodfeud