Congratulations to our contributors Massoud Hayoun and Becky Hagenston, whose essay and story were selected as Notable Mentions in the 2020 Best American Essays and Best American Short Stories respectively. And another shout out to TSR’s associate editor, Vanessa Cuti, who also received a mention for her short story, which appeared in the Cimarron Review.
Read MoreWe're so excited for Tara Isabel Zambrano's debut short story collection, Death, Desire, and Other Destinations! Tara won our Short Short Fiction contest in 2019 with the amazing "New Old," and we can't wait to dig into this collection of short fiction.
As the spaceship crash lands in our backyard,' matter-of-factly begins one story in Tara Isabel Zambrano’s sexy, strangeDeath, Desire, and Other Destinations: this collection is likewise an otherworldly force, with startling impact.Lesbians have destination weddings on the moon, hearts leap from bodies, dead girls share cigarettes while contemplating their lost lives, women suffer temporary, sex-induced blindness, lovers swallow each other whole, harem girls kill their master’s enemies with poisonous kisses. This is a vivid, wild, captivating book.
—Kim Magowan, author of UNDOING and THE LIGHT SOURCE
Death Desire, and Other Destinations explores the rocky terrain of relationships and their fault lines, and unearths the boundaries between love, longing, and loss. Both real and surreal, lyrical and magical, sci-fi and speculative, these small stories shine a light in the darkness of seeking a human connection across space and time.
Check it out September 15 from Okay Donkey.
Read MoreAfter nearly forgetting her first language, Hal Y. Zhang discovered a jagged hole that could not be filled by a second. AMNESIA, her debut poetry chapbook, grasps at the echoes of her mother and sister tongues, 中文 and English. In both subject and form, these poems excavate the personal and the linguistic and map profound shifts in identity to the shape of words and radicals. Find their buried skins, their bitter unfurling, and divine the root forms of their leaves.
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Read MorePoems from TSR contributors Jeffrey McDaniel and Sharon Olds has been selected for the Best American Poetry 2019 Anthology by editor and TSR contributor Major Jackson.
Jeffrey McDaniel’s poem "Bio From a Parallel World" was first published in the Winter/Spring 2019 issue of The Southampton Review.
Sharon Olds’ poem "Rasputin Aria" first appeared in the Summer/Fall 2018 issue of The Southampton Review.
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Read MoreTSR contributor Sonya Bilocerkowycz’s new book of essays, On Our Way Home From the Revolution, will be published by Ohio State University Press this month. Included in the collection is the essay, “I Saw the Sunshine, Melting,” which was first published in the Winter/Spring 2018 issue of The Southampton Review.
Bilocerkowycz’s series of linked essays explores the knotted threads between Ukraine and Russia, as well as the personal ties of the author and her diaspora community in the US.
ON OUR WAY HOME FROM THE REVOLUTION: Reflections on Ukraine
by Sonya Bilocerkowycz
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You can read “I Saw the Sunshine, Melting” here: https://www.thesouthamptonreview.com/tsronline/2019/5/21/i-saw-the-sunshine-melting
Read More“Part mythology, part personal essay, and part historical fact-finding mission that circles her family’s patriotic devotion to Ukraine, Sonya Bilocerkowycz asks what it means to love a country that struggles to confront its complicated history and wonders what to make of the incomplete narrative she inherited as a child. Tender, probing, and deeply honest.” —Angela Pelster
“A fierce, lyrical book that achieves a rare balance between the burden and beauty of heritage. A powerfully American book even as it travels to post–Cold War Ukraine. The best use of memoir is not a how-I-got-to-be-me story, but a book like this—a courageous effort to pierce the secrets of a vexed political and cultural history.” —Patricia Hampl
The Summer/Fall 2019 issue of The Southampton Review is here! The Southampton Review (TSR) publishes its 25th issue on July 13 and inside readers will find an updated look and work by authors such as Rick Moody ("Hotels of North America"), Lisa Locascio ("Open Me"), Aliki Barnstone (Poet Laureate of Missouri), Katherine Faw ("Ultraluminous"), Scott Cheshire ("High as the Horses’ Bridles"), and Rachel Lyon ("Self-Portrait with Boy").
Read MoreSummer/Fall 2019 contributor and Frank McCourt Memoir Contest second prize winner, Massoud Hayoun, has a debut memoir out this summer.
In When We Were Arabs, Hayoun brings alive the worlds of his grandparents, vividly shattering our contemporary understanding of what makes an Arab, what makes a Jew, and how we draw the lines over which we do battle. When We Were Arabs seeks to reclaim a worldly, nuanced Arab identity—and to recall a time before ethnic identity was mangled for political ends.
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WHEN WE WERE ARABS
A Jewish Family’s Forgotten History
by Massoud Hayoun
Pub. Date: June 25, 2019
Massoud Hayoun’s essay, “Urumqi mon amour,” was published in the Summer/Fall 2019 issue of TSR and is available to read here.
Read MoreSummer/Fall 2019 Issue Available for Pre-Order
Featuring work by Rick Moody, Rachel Lyon, Katherine Faw, Aliki Barnstone, Rosebud Ben-oni, Evan Grillon, Massoud Hayoun, and more. Order your copy here.
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Congratulations to the 2019 Frank McCourt Memoir Prize winners, honorable mentions, and finalists, and thank you to all who entered!
Look for “Baab” by Isabel Seabeck and “Urumqi mon amour” by Massoud Hayoun in the forthcoming Summer/Fall 2019 issue of TSR, due out in June.
FIRST PRIZE
Isabel Seabeck “Baab”
SECOND PRIZE
Massoud Hayoun “Urumqi mon amour”
HONORABLE MENTIONS
Connie Kuhns “Girl Parts”
Catalin Partenie “Gudrun”
FINALISTS
Kartika Budhwar
Bill Marsh
Kathy Palko
Ernie Reynolds
N. R. Robinson
Daniel Rousseau
Lisa Smith
Alina Stefanescu
Kate Whitehead
James Winter
Congratulations to Will Finlayson, Elizabeth Stix, and Tara Isabel Zambrano, whose microfiction will be published in the Best Microfiction 2019 anthology. Their short, short stories were winners of the 2018 and 2019 TSR Short, Short Fiction Contest. We’re absolutely thrilled for Will, Elizabeth, and Tara!
Read MoreTSR contributor Jona Colson’s poetry asks the reader to reconsider ordinary life as something curious, even fantastic. In a collection that illuminates both the public and private self, Colson leads us from grief to healing, giving voice to what normally goes unsaid. From fanciful, imaginary dialogues to sorrow over a father's death to a lyric sequence based on Velazquez' Las Meninas, in which the subjects of the famous painting speak, Colson shows himself to be a young poet of astonishing, apparently limitless range—sometimes whimsical, sometimes terrifying, but always contemplative, delicate, and wise.
Jona’s poem, “Snow,” appears in the Winter/Spring issue of TSR.
Twitter: @jcolson01 | jonacolson.com
Read MoreGlass is Glass Water is Water (Spork Press, 2018) is a queer book of love and skepticism—of figuration, and of the tensions queer women inherit in their relationships to one another and to the culture in which they make their way. In it I hope to suggest something about what we might learn from moments of breakage and failures of resolution about our relationships to meaning itself.
Rae Gouirand is the author of Open Winter (selected by Elaine Equi for the Bellday Prize for Poetry, Bellday Books, 2011) and Must Apple (selected by T.C. Tolbert for the Oro Fino Chapbook Award, Educe Press, 2018). Her poems have appeared recently in American Poetry Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Conjunctions, Crazyhorse, diode, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Rumpus, ZYZZYVA, and many other journals and anthologies nationwide. She leads several longrunning workshops in poetry and prose in northern California and online, and lectures in the Department of English at UC-Davis.
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Read MoreOn November 16, the Winter/Spring 2019 edition of The Southampton Review was launched at an event at Stony Brook Southampton’s Manhattan Center for Creative Writing and Film.
When fans of the much-beloved publication get their hands on the new issue, they may notice that it comes with a slightly different look and feel than past editions. That’s because the highly regarded literary guide has a new editor-in-chief at the helm, Amagansett resident Emily Smith Gilbert, and, already, she has added her touch to the layout.
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Read More…and Meg Wolitzer received a Special Mention for her story, “Deep Lies the Woods,” which first appeared in the Summer/Fall 2017 issue of TSR.
Olabajo Dada’s story, “The Bar Beach Show,” from the same issue of TSR, is reprinted in full in the 2019 edition of the Pushcart Prizes.
Congratulations to Olabajo and Meg!
Read MoreSixteen-year-old Jolene comes from a long line of Winnipeg lowlifes—but at least they’re musical lowlifes. Her mom is a tanning salon manager who believes she can channel her karaoke habit into a professional singing career. Jolene’s dad, a failed bass player, has fallen back on the family demolition business. (The company motto: “We do not build things, we only tear them down.”)
But Jolene and her older brother Matt are real musicians, and the songs they write together make everything Jo hates about her life—school, parents, her crappy hometown—matter less, if it matters at all.
When Matt up and leaves in the middle of the night, Jo loses her only friend, her band-mate, and the one person who made her cool. When it becomes clear that Matt is never coming back, Jo must use music to navigate her loss.
“New Old” Tara Isabel Zambrano
"Once the Downs Empty” Annie Raab
”Muscle” Karen Smyte
