#Fiction | South 85 Journal

Linda Briskin is a writer and photographer. She is intrigued by the permeability between the remembered and the imagined, and the ambiguities in what we choose to see. The fluidity between the natural and the constructed fascinates her. Her focus, then, is on inventing images rather than capturing them. Her photographs have been exhibited and published widely. https://www.lindabriskinphotography.com/

South 85 Journal is excited to announce that we are open for general submissions until April 15, 2023. We consider all quality work and are especially interested in writing that demonstrates a strong voice and sense of place.

As the online literary journal for the Converse University Low-Residency MFA program, we are entering our 11th year of publication. Our editorial staff is comprised of experienced readers, writers, and editors who carefully consider every work of writing they receive.

We publish two issues online each year: the summer issue, which is published June 15th, and the winter “contest” issue–which features each year’s Julia Peterkin Literary Award winner–published December 15th.

We also nominate excellent works for the Pushcart Prize and the annual Best of the Net Anthology.

Past contributors include: Dustin Brookshire, Luanne Castle, Anthony D’Aries, Benjamin Garcia, Caroline Goodwin, Ann Chadwell Humphries, Justin Jannise, Eric Rasmussen, Katherine DiBella Seluja, Chris Stuck, and many more.

We published two stellar issues in 2022: The summer issue celebrating our 10th anniversary and the winter issue highlighting this year’s Julia Peterkin Literary Award winners and finalists in flash fiction and poetry. You can read them here:

Summer 2022 : 10th Anniversary Celebration

Winter 2022 : The Contest Issue

For more information and to submit your work for consideration, visit our Submittable page

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Fiction

Awful Big, Awful Good by Matt Izzi

Dead Cats by Patrick Strickland

Living with Wolves by Christie Marra

Revisionist History 101 by Mike Herndon

The Loneliness Cure by Mark Brazaitis

Creative Nonficiton

I Remember by Linda Briskin

Marking Time and Place by Alice Lowe

Person. Place. Prey. Anyone. Anywhere. Anytime. by Honey Rand

To the South are Banana Plantations by Harris Walker

Poetry

a different sort of blues by Dana Tenille Weekes

biographies by David Galloway

Charisma came to me like a rubber doll by Susan Michele Coronel

How to Pick a Padlock by Patrick Wilcox

Most people have only one skeleton by Nadine Ellsworth-Moran

Magnolia by Greg Nelson

Mapping by Ellen Roberts Young

Roswell Mills: July 5, 1864 by Ann Malaspina

The Seagull that Melted by Kevin Pilkington

Uncle Bob Told Me by Christina Baumis

Yes, Fallen by Gordon W. Mennenga

Essays

The Dollmaker: Why You Should Have Read This Book Long Before Now by Jody Hobbs Hesler

Book Reviews

Fiction: The Woods of Fannin County by Janisse Ray, Review by John Krieg

Nonficton: Benjamin Banneker and Us by Rachel Webster, Review by Olivia Fishwick

Poetry: Through Our Water Like Fingers, a Review of Millicent Borges Accardi’s Quarantine Highway by Robert Manaster

Summer Issue Featured Image: SkyOceanBirds by Linda Briskin