Now accepting submissions for a special feature on Americana!
Dioramas, time capsules, ticket stubs, bingo halls, old motels, station wagons, miniature villages,
carousels, reenactments, corn dogs, corn liquor, drive-thru trees, ice cream trucks, cigarette
machines, alien sightings, hobo names, mermaid parades, rotary phones, theater marquee,
lawn parties, circus towns, hog prizes, RVs, no vacancy, sideshows, rodeos, Appalachian,
Big Bear, Broken Top, Blue Ridge, Mount Bachelor, Grand Teton, Camel’s Hump, Devil’s
Thumb, Horsetooth, Half Dome, US 1, Route 66, I-95, Going-to-the-Sun, Sky Island,
Overseas, Mississippi, Journey Through Hallowed Land, Rio Grande, Gowanus Canal,
Niagara Falls, Chattahoochee, Great Lakes, Tug Fork, Allegheny, Elk Neck, Grand Staircase,
Death Valley, Heart of Dixie, Tex Mex, Westward Ho, Rust Belt, Dust Bowl, Dude Ranch,
Old South, Mother Lode, crossroads, Honey Lands, bluegrass, burlesque, alt country,
old timey, Americana.We are looking for the essays, stories and poems that articulate the sateen heart beating in
stories we tell ourselves about ourselves. We want to publish work that takes on the enchanted
and rhinestoned, the love canals, tourist traps and old manufacturing towns—wherever you find
the embroidery and the embellishments that make up the borders and roadside attractions of
our wild Americana map.We’re currently accepting submissions for a special feature about Americana to be published in
the Spring 2011 issue. Please send your previously unpublished poems, stories, and essays
by October 1, 2010.The Southern Review Americana Feature
Attn. Jen McClanaghan
Old President’s House
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
