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

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