Barely South Review began as The Dominion Review, an annual student literary journal housed at Old Dominion University in 1983. Following the creation of ODU’s graduate program in Creative Writing in 1994, The Dominion Review became a national journal of literature and the arts that throughout its illustrious run published writers such as Sue William Silverman, Diane Williams, Mark Cox, David Kirby, Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda, Vivian Shipley, Kelly Cherry, Bryan D. Dietrich, and Billy Collins, among others. In 2008, the journal relaunched under the name Barely South Review as an online biannual publication staffed by students of the MFA program with issues every fall and spring. Today, BSR continues to feature innovative new voices alongside well-established writers, and recent writing from the journal has been included in the Best American Series.
2020-2021 Reading and Editorial Collective:
Managing Editor: Francesca Santos
Poetry Editors: Courtney Tala, Kelsey Orsini
Poetry Readers: Matthew G. Moscato, Will Wilson
Fiction Editors: Samia Ahmed, James Valliere
Fiction Readers: Sean Fitzpatrick, Anna Fogler, Timothy Fulghum, Amanda Kunkel, Serenity Marshall, Phyllis Stewart-Ruffin, Wendell Ward
Nonfiction Editor: Lili Nizankiewicz
Nonfiction Readers: Briana Morris, Veni Fields
Editorial Advisory Board: Luisa A. Igloria, Benjamín Naka-Hasebe Kingsley, John McManus, Michael Pearson, Sheri Reynolds, Kent Wascom
Barely South Review Logo: Josephine A. Carino