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storySouth is an online quarterly American literary magazine that publishes fiction, poetry, criticism, and essays, with a focus on the American South.

History

storySouth (the initial lower-case s is a deliberate device) is an online literary journal, founded in 2001 by fiction writer Jason Sanford [1], its Chief Editor. In its pages it has published pieces on such writers as Loren Eiseley, and has feature prominent authors such as Forrest Gander. Stories, essays, and poetry published in storySouth have been honored by the Chronicle of Higher Education's Arts and Letters Daily and selected for an anthology of best web-published fiction. storySouth also runs the annual Million Writers Award, started in 2003, which honors the best online fiction of the year and was named a Hot Site by USA Today. The Million Writers Award has become one of the premier online awards. Several of the writers first featured in storySouth have gone on to get book deals with major publishers.

Contributors

Forrest Gander