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South Carolina Review The SCR is a lively take on your granddaddy's Southern Literary Magazine.

SCR Friends--We’re very grateful to every writer who sends us work via Submittable; we rarely solicit material, so our s...
06/05/2026

SCR Friends--

We’re very grateful to every writer who sends us work via Submittable; we rarely solicit material, so our submission base makes up the core of every SCR issue. We hope we’re publishing a thought-provoking, entertaining, and visually appealing journal—maybe (at least we’d like to think) that’s why we’re receiving more submissions now than we can handle.

Thank you to everyone who has sent us work during this submission period, and we encourage others to send work, too . . . but we’re going to have to close the submission window a month early, on June 15th, because we’ve maxed out our reading capabilities and we want to make sure all manuscripts get the attention they deserve.

Thanks for your support of SCR, and we look forward to reading your work—again, the new deadline for the spring ’27 issue is June 15th. The next submission window will open September 15th.

Keith Morris
Editor

https://www.clemson.edu/cah/sites/south-carolina-review/contact-us/

SCR Associate Editor Will Cathcart will be at Pendleton Bookshop on Saturday, May 16 at 6 p.m., reading from his newly r...
05/13/2026

SCR Associate Editor Will Cathcart will be at Pendleton Bookshop on Saturday, May 16 at 6 p.m., reading from his newly released debut novel, “This Is How People Die.”

Recently, one of our Assistant Editors, Rylee Cowan, spoke with Cathcart about the novel, his path into fiction and the process of bringing this genre-defying story to life.

Read the full interview on our news blog. Link in comments.

SCR 58.2’s cover art “Morning Coffee” by Megan Ingerslew was created to evoke the nostalgia of American illustration and...
05/04/2026

SCR 58.2’s cover art “Morning Coffee” by Megan Ingerslew was created to evoke the nostalgia of American illustration and paintings from the 1950s with an unconventional subject.

“Morning Coffee”was painted to create something beautiful and pensive, exploring the use of texture and color to invoke a pleasant mood.”

Read more about Megan and the cover in our news blog! Link in comments!

IT’S HERE! SCR Spring 2026 (58.2) is on its way! We’re so excited for you to experience the compelling and distinctive p...
05/02/2026

IT’S HERE! SCR Spring 2026 (58.2) is on its way! We’re so excited for you to experience the compelling and distinctive pieces featured in this issue.

We’re also delighted to announce the Volume 58 Ronald Moran Prize winners: poetry – Chelsea Zhu, “Lowcountry Haibun,” and fiction – Christopher Chilton, “First in Flight.”

SCR Associate Editor Will Cathcart’s debut, genre-defying novel “This is How People Die” will be published by Evening Po...
04/23/2026

SCR Associate Editor Will Cathcart’s debut, genre-defying novel “This is How People Die” will be published by Evening Post Books on Tuesday, April 28th with a public launch event planned on May 14th at the Charleston Library Society.

Pre-order and read more in our news blog. Link in comments.

Congratulations to Cyn Nooney for winning the Ronald Moran Prize in Fiction for South Carolina Review Volume 58 with her...
04/21/2026

Congratulations to Cyn Nooney for winning the Ronald Moran Prize in Fiction for South Carolina Review Volume 58 with her story, “Sterling Recruit.”

Read more about Cyn Nooney and “Sterling Recruit” in our interview conducted by former SCR Assistant Editor Sage Short. Link in the comments.

Submissions are now open for consideration for the Spring 2027 issue of The South Carolina Review. Our open submission p...
04/16/2026

Submissions are now open for consideration for the Spring 2027 issue of The South Carolina Review. Our open submission period runs from April 15 through July 15 via Submittable. Find the link in the comments below.

And in more exciting news: our Spring 2026 issue went to the printer yesterday. We can’t wait to share it with you — this one is truly special.

Our Poetry Editor and Assistant Professor of English at Clemson University, Stevie Edwards, Ph.D., was recently featured...
04/07/2026

Our Poetry Editor and Assistant Professor of English at Clemson University, Stevie Edwards, Ph.D., was recently featured in an interview with John Eby for Clemson News, discussing her latest poetry collection, The Weather Inside.

Read the full article via the link in the comments—and be sure to grab your copy of The Weather Inside from University of Arkansas Press.

Introducing our Volume 57 Ronald Moran Prize in Poetry winner Dominique Ahkong for her poem “A Man Who Looks Like Your B...
04/06/2026

Introducing our Volume 57 Ronald Moran Prize in Poetry winner Dominique Ahkong for her poem “A Man Who Looks Like Your Best Friend’s Father.”

Learn more about Ahkong in our news blog, where Assistant Editor Nell Kriegel speaks with her about editing versus writing, navigating moments of creative stagnation, and the themes of secrecy and inheritance in her upcoming work. Link in comments.

We had so much fun with you all at SCR Flash Fiction last night as part of the 19th annual Clemson Literary Festival! Ch...
03/26/2026

We had so much fun with you all at SCR Flash Fiction last night as part of the 19th annual Clemson Literary Festival! Cheers to the winning team pictured here...and Kate.

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