Oxford American

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

Blooms, Greens, and Portals

Oxford American

Points South

Dear Queen • The land that saved you, Mama

Reign of the Silver King

Clearing Ground in Georgia’s New Cannabis Country

Suffering Embarrassments in a Small Town

The Persistence of Memory • Searching for James Baldwin in Alabama

Brackish Water • How the TVA deals with the living and the dead

Outskirts

The Worm Charmers • A Florida family coaxes earthworms from the forest floor

Omnivore

AN ARCHIVE OF ONE’S OWN • A conversation with photographer Julie Rae Powers

WILD LUNCH • Edible botanicals, documented with an artist’s eye

SOUTHERN ARTISTIC INGENUITY AND A BLACK COUNTRY SYLLABUS