Author: jewashb

SCR is excited to include in the Spring 2021 issue (53.2) work by Garielle Lutz: “Worsted,” an excerpt from the novel of the same name. Lutz recently recorded a craft discussion for us describing the writing process in creating the flash-fiction piece “Grounds,” which we are pleased to present here.

“Grounds”

A Short Story by Garielle Lutz

Then she found something out about me but wouldn’t tell me what it was. All she said was “Why would anyone say such a thing about you? What’s your side of the story?” I told her that it was probably not a story with sides to it. The sides were what would have held it in if there had been a way to keep it from getting out.

Click here to read the discussion in print.

Click below to listen to the audio.

South Carolina Review Volume 53.2 has arrived!

This issue features poetry by Diamond Forde, Stella Wong, and Sheila Black, with fiction by Marlin Barton, Tracy Lien, and Peruvian author Dany Salvatierra in a new translation. Be sure to also check out the pieces by our Ronald Moran Prize winners, Lauren Morrow (“Bodies of Water“) and Denise Jarrott (“Cash Tender Total“). To subscribe to SCR, click here and select the South Carolina Review.

Coming soon: be on the lookout for a craft conversation on the writer’s process with Garielle Lutz, author of “Worsted,” which appears in 53.2, and the flash-fiction piece “Grounds.”

SCR Issue 53.2 includes poetry by Stella Wong, and Sheila Black, with fiction by Marlin Barton, Tracy Lien, and Dany Salvatierra, and features our Ronald Moran Prize winners Lauren Morrow (fiction) and Denise Jarrott (poetry).

CONTENTS

POETRY

1 ELLA FLORES North American Tectonic Plate Realizes It Can Speak, Tries 

11 DENISE JARROTT; Cash Tender Total, Tea Rose Nightgown 

27 HANNAH MARSHALL We Were Naked, We Were Horses 

28 SHEILA BLACK Heartbreak 

37 DIAMOND FORDE Ars Poetica with Snow Globes; Without Hunger 

44 TERRY L. KENNEDY Uneasiness Is What  

45 DANIEL GLEASON My Childen Understand that the Laminator is a Sacred Object 

50 STELLA WONG Pyramid Scheme; Multiple Worlds Interpretation; To Scare Men 

65 LAURA OHLMANN Back to Nineteen Ninety-Four 

79 MARINA GREENFELD Diatoms 

81 DARREN DEMAREE Emily as Soft Answer  

88 ASHLEY ROBLES Procession 

106 SUJASH PURNA Story City  

108 JULIE E. BLOEMEKE After Emily Carr’s The Raven 1928–1929 

112 JOHN SIBLEY WILLIAMS The Moon Is Two Half-Moons Joined Together

120 AMY GAETA ER; Drone 

131 ANNA NEWMAN This or that 

32 BEATRICE SZYMKOWIAK Through the Window Outside my Lungs; Eagle Creek Fire 

142 AMBALILA HEMSELL Hydrangea Blue; Sex in the Anthropocene 

152 ALISHA YI White Morning

152 ALISHA YI White Morning

FICTION

2 JESSE MOTTE Woof Woof, Bow Wow 

16 LAUREN MORROW Bodies of Water

30 DANY SALVATIERRA Pick Up the Phone Right Now 

40 JESSICA LEE RICHARDSON The Game Before Hart Goes 

46 JOE FARLEY To a Band I Loved 

54 TRACEY LIEN Temblors 

66 CASEY MCCONAHAY This Is How You Get There 

82 GARIELLE LUTZ Worsted 

90 MARLIN BARTON Up a River 

109 ELIZABETH KIRSCHNER Make Lasting Friends 

114 JOHN FULTON Winter Drive 

123 ROB SWIGART Floater 

134 DAVID HANSEN Three Welsh Names 

144 CHARLI SPIER Sandwich Architecture 

BOOK REVIEWS

154 JULIA KOETS The Pleasure of Digression: Michael Griffith’s The Speaking Stone: Stories Cemeteries Tell 

157 SKIP EISIMINGER When Light and Dark Merge: John Lane’s Whose Woods These Are  

160 GORDON VAN NESS Touch Without Touch: Julie E. Bloemeke’s Slide to Unlock 

CONTRIBUTORS

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SCR is proud to present poets Julia Koets and Alicia Mountain for a reading and Q&A (moderated by Miriam McEwen) this Wednesday, March 24th at 5:00pm as part of the 14th annual Clemson Literary Festival.

Julia Koets is the author of the poetry collection Pine (forthcoming from Southern Indiana Review Press), The Rib Joint: A Memoir in Essays (2019, Red Hen Press), and Hold Like Owls (winner of the South Carolina Poetry Book Prize, selected by Nicky Finney, who headlines this year’s Literary Festival). Look for new work by Julia Koets in SCR Volume 54:2 in spring 2022.

Alicia Mountain’s debut collection, High Ground Coward (University of Iowa Press, 2018), was selected by Brenda Shaughnessy as the winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize. She is also the author of Thin Fire, selected by Natalie Diaz for publication by BOAAT Press, and the forthcoming Four in Hand (BOA Editions).

For more details about this exciting event, please visit the Clemson Literary Festival Page.

The SCR would like to sincerely thank all of the authors who contributed to Volume 53.2. Congratulations to the winners of our Ronald Moran Prize in Poetry and Fiction, Denise Jarrott for “Cash Tender Total,” (poetry) and Lauren Morrow for “Bodies of Water” (fiction). Make sure to check out these winning pieces!

Each recipient, chosen from authors included in each year’s fall and spring issue who have no more than one published book, receives a $250 prize.