Yalobusha Review is a journal of new writing, founded in 1995 and operated by the graduate writing program at the University of Mississippi. We seek to showcase work that alters or subverts mainstream forms of expression–work that is, in a broad sense, experimental, though that can take many forms. We believe the reading experience should be a kinetic one, and to that end, we favor art that has its own source of energy, drawn from tonal individuality, linguistic texture, and above all, a sense of exploration.

 

We are a journal that publishes voices from around the world while also paying mind to the voices at home in our small Mississippi town. In September 2020, we launched the Letters to the Supervisors initiative to amplify the calls from local community members to take down the confederate statue on Oxford’s Square.

 

We are committed to being a space that celebrates emerging writers. We have been lucky to publish early work of writers we admire such as Carmen Maria Machado and Melissa Broder, among others.

 

 

 

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Senior Editors • Sarah Ligon & Jenny Maaketo

 

Poetry Editor • Ashleigh Kennedy

 

Fiction Editor • Oluwatobi Ogundiran

 

Nonfiction Editor • Ellie Black

 

Poetry Readers • Alexandra Chand, Diego Fleitas, Ashleigh Kennedy, Kimberly Kotel, Winshen Liu, Noreen Ocampo, Ugochukwu Damian Okpara

 

Fiction Readers • Katie Downes, Homa Mojtabai, Christy Conner, Kacee McKinney

 

 

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Andrew Dally built the website.