The Oxford American is a national magazine dedicated to featuring the very best in Southern writing while documenting the complexity and vitality of the American South. Billed as "The Southern Magazine of Good Writing," it has won two National Magazine Awards and other high honors since it began publication in 1992.
CONTRIBUTORS
To the West
Oxford American
POINTS SOUTH
The Mustang
Cavities and Debris
Stumbling Stone
Marble City Mourning
Wednesday in Athens
The Spirit of the Bend
Sting Like a Bee
WHERE THE ANIMALS SLEEP AT NIGHT
Undetermined Circumstances • Disappearance and discovery in American waters
EL COQUÍ SIEMPRE CANTA • Listening for the ambient sounds of home
Two Poems
Two Poems
FIFTY-SEVEN DOLLARS • AN EXCERPT FROM Maybe We’ll Make It: A Memoir
Rashida
Eastman, Ga. 2022 • A SEARCH FOR A SOUTHERN PAST
OMNIVORE
COMING UP FANCY • The ever-expanding identity of a Southern gothic epic
HOPE AFTER “DOPESICK” • An interview with Beth Macy
ON SOUND SIGNALS AND BLACKBIRDS OF 1928