A Letter from Our Editor
by Lizzy Ke Polishan
Poetry
The Pleasure of Naming Yourself
by Gordon Taylor
Sonatina in the “Health Foods” Aisle
by Selen Frantz
May Contain Traces Of…
by Andrew Christoforakis
Pantoum for the Event Horizon
by Andrew Christoforakis
Single Mother
by Cheryl Dyer
The World of Coca-Cola
by Kimberly Gibson-Tran
Self-Portrait of Hades
by Hollie Dugas
Espouse His Sorrow
by Maggie Rue Hess
After the Blood Doctor Appointments
by Maggie Rue Hess
Other Dances
by N.W. Hicks
Cicadas
by Allison Zhang
Consecration
by Allison Zhang
Ode to the Cracked Mug
by Allison Zhang
Memory Leaks in Monsoon
by Sabyasachi Roy
Cathedral
by Megan Moss
My Mother’s First Haircut after Bedrest for Hyperemesis Gravidarum
by Christiana Doucette
The Burden of the Kitchen Painter
by Marie-Andrée Auclair
Homeless
by Carol L. Gloor
The Garden
by David M. Alper
Creative Nonfiction
Young Residents
by Angela Townsend
The Roofers Have Stopped for Lunch
by Sean Thomas Dougherty
I’m a Bad Cactus Person
by Kaia Stead
The Heart Faced Suddenly with the Loss of Its Country
by Nancy Wayson Dinan
Fiction
The Archive Cylinder
by Raymond Brunell
Cow Eyes
by Michaela Reed
Scripts
Merry Mary Margarine
by Tucker Dean Smith
Amor y Muerte
by Bobbi Salas
Photo by Matthew Hinton
Would you like to be a part of River & South?
River & South Review publishes twice each year. We accept fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. Submissions open February 15 for summer issues and August 30 for winter issues.
If we reach our capacity, we will close submissions before the deadline. So, submit early!