As I mentioned back in December, storySouth--the online journal I founded with Jake Adam York--has a new editorial team and publisher. Well, their first all-new issue is now available and it's a sight to behold. With fiction by George Singleton and Daniel Wallace, and poetry by Gregory Donovan and Erin Lyndal Martin (among others), the issue shows that storySouth is back with a vengeance as the journal continues its work of highlighting the best new writings from the New South.

I want to give special praise to Terry Kennedy and all the editors at Spring Garden Press for the excellent work in bringing storySouth to new heights. And special praise must also be given to Assistant Editor Andrew Saulters for his new graphic design to the journal.