Hello, Five South lit community! We are grateful to interview Donna Florio. Donna is a lifelong resident of Bank Street in New York,...

Carol ORANGE is the author of the novel, A Discerning Eye, centering around the still unsolved art heist at the Isabella Stewart Gardner...

THE FIVE SOUTH POETRY PRIZE Great stories move us. The Five South Poetry Prize - $1000 awarded for one grand prize winner. Two finalists...

THE FIVE SOUTH SHORT FICTION PRIZE Great stories move us. The Five South Short Fiction Prize - $1000 awarded for one grand prize winner....

By Mina Manchester Hello writer! You take your writing as seriously as we take reading it. The editorial team at Five South has the added...

$1000 for one grand prize winner. Two finalists. Winner and finalists will be included in our forthcoming anthology. The Five South Prize...

Marcia BUTLER is that rarest of unicorns – a polymath accomplished and lauded across multiple fields in the arts. She’s a professional...

📆Get a reminder when our contest opens for submissions (free) $1000 for one grand prize winner. Two finalists. Winner and finalists will...

The water sloshed against the concrete barrier. How long would we have to stand there before erosion would let us slide right in?

by Despy Boustris THIS IS WHAT I WANT after Holly Prado uprooted trees filled with Earth’s art, music notes in each particle of...

by Ally Ang More Americans Believe They’ve Seen a Ghost Than a Trans Person “Nothing is more frightening than looking / and loving what...

By Lucy Zhang The first thing I looked up was whether girls enjoyed giving guys blow jobs. If girls drank everything that leaked from the...

A process of cleaning out By Loisa Fenichell Winter, then, kept the body cold. I was saved by a woman blowing some whistle & corn pipe....