April 26, 2018
We have finalized selections for our Fall 2018 edition! SCR issue 51:1 will include work from authors Ron Rash, Shobha Rao, Sandra Beasley, and Kevin Barry, among others. Read our recent interview with author Kevin Barry here (link), whose story “Old Stock” will be featured in the new issue. The interview is conducted by Lee Morrissey, director of Clemson University’s Humanities Hub.
April 26, 2018
South Carolina Review was proud to be featured on the member spotlight blog for Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP). SCR joined CLMP in the spring of 2015. We also took part in an Instagram takeover on the CLMP’s Instagram page. www.clmp.org/blog-post/member-spotlight-50-years-of-the-south-carolina-review/
April 26, 2018
South Carolina Review recently exhibited at the Book Fair as part of the 11th annual Clemson Literary Festival. The festival was co-founded by former SCR editor Wayne Chapman and current editor Keith Lee Morris, and SCR sponsors panels and readings each year (the SCR Presents panel this year featured authors April Ayers Lawson and Matthew Vollmer). This year we […]
April 26, 2018
Photos from the South Carolina Review’s panel with authors April Ayers Lawson and Matthew Vollmer on Agents and Publishing, during Clemson University’s 11th Annual Literary Festival.
April 26, 2018
In this interview with Lee Morrissey, Kevin Barry describes a unique feature in his novel,
Beatlebone, “The heart of the book is an essay, in the middle of it, in which I write essentially
about why I’m telling this story, and why I’m writing this story, in which I figure out in the
course of writing that essay that it’s a portrait of an artist, and to make a portrait of an artist you
have to bring everything you have from your own life to it.”
April 1, 2018
This number is for George William (Bill) Koon and Frank Louis Day, close friends who
were also Clemson’s first two managing editors of The South Carolina Review; may they
rest in peace. On August 2, 2017, Frank passed away after a long illness, followed by Bill,
on October 3, after a surprisingly short one. The near coincidence recalls the theme of
Bill’s address during the journal’s fortieth-anniversary celebration, “Parallel Lives,” as he
called it, after a book he liked by Plutarch. Considering their long association as fellow
editors, professors, and department heads, the lives of Bill and Frank were in many ways
coincident but parallel—their careers ran “along side by side” The South Carolina Review
(see 41.1 [Fall 2008]: 3-4).
August 1, 2017
The maiden issue of The South Carolina Review appeared in November 1968. Its cover listed only the month and year of publication followed by “Vol. 1 No. 1 $1.00” under a simple yet elegant banner featuring the review’s title. In a statement of editorial practice in this first issue, the founding editors aimed to publish writing that “clarifies, moves, provokes, and inspires.”
The cover of this issue returns to the design of its inaugural number as an homage to this ambitious editorial vision, which endures a half-century later.
—SCR Editorial Board
April 1, 2017
The South Carolina Review is indexed in the MLA International Bibliography, Humanities International Complete, Index to Periodical Fiction, and Book Review Index. SCR belongs to the Council of Editors of Learned Journals. Content from SCR 37.1 onward is also available via ProQuest’s online database (http://www.proquest.com).
