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All things southern. Peer-reviewed quarterly from UNC Press and the Center for the Study of the Amer

“The rich array of photographs and graphics, and the sincere and effective attempt at readerly appeal, go well beyond what is attempted by most… Southern Cultures is truly impressive.” — Council of Editors of Learned Journals

01/15/2026

It was a busy year. Looking forward to what’s ahead!

11/19/2025

Call for papers: Religion
Guest edited by
Deadline: Deadline, Dec 1, 2025
Details via link in bio

Although many see the South as a Protestant “Bible Belt,” it has always been home to a wide array of religions.

For our Fall 2026 issue, we seek submissions that explore the South as home to multiple religious traditions, from before colonization to the present day, engaging historical, literary, documentary, ethnographic, and other methods.

Photo by

11/14/2025

Full hearts after a full porch of beautiful poets and people. As declared, “Poetry on the Porch is back!” And wow, is it ever.

Thanks to all who came out for a magical night with Gaby Calvocoressi and Nikky Finney. ❤️

09/04/2025

Teamer
“What does Katrina mean to you now?” We posed this question to a group of thinkers, including former New Orleans mayor Mitch Landrieu, Houma Nation citizen and artist Monique Verdin, scholar Leslie Harris, chef Meherwan Irani, geophysicist Klaus Jacob, and more.

*Read for free via link in bio*
Image: Gentilly , by Ashley Teamer, 2022. Inkjet print, fabric, acrylic medium, cord, eyelets, thread, 88 x 78 in. Photo by Genevieve Hanson. Courtesy of the artist.

08/29/2025

Today, on the twentieth anniversary of Katrina, we send our deep gratitude to our guest editor Andy Horowitz and contributors to the Katrina’s America issue for telling powerful stories, both personal and reported, of a public tragedy. Placing the personal against (and with and in) the political, we get a prismatic view of Katrina on the twentieth anniversary of landfall, with stories yet to be told and new ones yet to come.

Twenty years on, we are thinking about our friends in New Orleans, the Gulf Coast, and beyond—and these issues that we all face. “We could figure this out, how to go forward in a better way,” Tammy Greer reminds in the issue, speaking about fostering community around the Nanih Bvlbancha Mound. “Not by domination but by co-creating with the trees, the animals, and with one another, and undo this.”

Issue via link in bio.
Image: Relativity, by Kayori Maeyama, 2019. Oil on panel, 24 x 18 in. All images courtesy of the artist.

08/28/2025

Twenty years ago, Hurricane Katrina sent a storm surge into the Gulf of Mexico. When the levee system surrounding metropolitan New Orleans collapsed, hundreds of people died, tens of thousands of people lost their homes, and years of suffering and struggle followed. At the time, many people understood Katrina as an unprecedented disaster, or a catastrophe that could only occur on the underprivileged margins of American wealth and power. From today’s vantage, however, Katrina no longer looks like an exception. The two decades since the flood have brought more water, fire, and pandemic, surging racist violence, widening economic inequality, and seemingly irreconcilable political conflict. The past two decades have brought, too, emboldened community organizing, ambitious visions for addressing the climate crisis, and other creative efforts to build a more humane future. In all of these domains, Katrina does not appear to be retreating into the past so much as resounding in the future. It is increasingly clear that we live, today, in Katrina’s America.

Read the entire issue for FREE via link in bio!

06/27/2025

“This is an invitation into the long histories of a Black listening tradition where the speaker trusts the audience to be part of the song.”

Read Corey J. Miles’s introduction to the new Hip-Hop issue via link in bio.

Image: Black National Anthem, by Fahamu Pecou, 2021. Acrylic on canvas, 78 × 60 in. All images courtesy of the artist.

06/20/2025

The summer Hip-Hop issue is here! And it’s a beauty, including the cover image from “Walk It Out” by . *link in bio to read for FREE*

It’s been 30 years since André “3000” Benjamin declared “the South got something to say,” and for the decades since this pivotal moment the region has spoken. In this issue, guest edited by Corey J. Miles, we contextualize Benjamin’s interruption & expand southern hip-hop’s historiographical and sociocultural landscapes.

04/24/2025

Jimmy Wright is perhaps most associated with New York—his home of more than 40 years. But as curator John Corbett writes, Wright’s “artistic sensibility is marked by a history that extends, by way of Illinois, back to his upbringing and early education in Kentucky.”

View Jimmy Wright’s “Down Home” series and accompanying stories, as featured in the Q***r South issue, via link in bio.

Images courtesy &

04/14/2025

Thanks to all who came out on Thursday to celebrate the Q***r South issue! We had a great conversation on the Love House porch with guest editor Hooper Schultz and longtime LGBTQ+ activists Many Carter and Mab Segrest.

04/10/2025

Meet the Q***r South issue, guest edited by Hooper Schultz and Jaime Harker, a beautiful and probing look at queerness in the South, which remains important terrain for doing meaning-making work on gender and sexual politics—and crucial in this moment.

Copies of the issue are now available to order! And you can also read the issue for free via our partnership with Project Muse (we’re open access, y’all!). See links in bio!

Cover art by RF. Alvarez

04/06/2025

A beautiful Sunday attending the Black Q***r Studies Conference at UNC with our *hot off the press* Q***r South issue!

Much more to share this week.

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