New Stories from the South is an annual compilation of short stories published by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill between 1986 and 2010 and billed as the year's best stories written by Southern writers or about the Southern United States.
The stories are collected from more than 100 literary magazines, including The Atlantic, Harper's Magazine, The New Yorker, the Oxford American, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, and The Southern Review.
Shannon Ravenel, then the editor of the annual Best American Short Stories anthology, launched the New Stories from the South series in 1986 and compiled and edited every volume until 2006.
To mark the third decade of the series, Algonquin invited author and John Simon Guggenheim Fellow Allan Gurganus to be guest editor.
[1] New Stories from the South has collected the work of many prominent modern American writers, including Steve Almond, Russell Banks, John Barth, Madison Smartt Bell, Wendell Berry, Roy Blount Jr., Larry Brown, James Lee Burke, Robert Olen Butler, Andre Dubus, William Faulkner (a newly discovered story), Barry Hannah, Nanci Kincaid, Aaron Gwyn, Barbara Kingsolver, Bobbie Ann Mason, Reynolds Price, Keith Lee Morris, John Sayles, Lucy Corin, Lee Smith, and Peter Taylor.
Selected and introduced by Anne Tyler.
Edited by Shannon Ravenel with a preface by Robert Olen Butler.
Edited by Shannon Ravenel with a preface by Padgett Powell.
Edited by Shannon Ravenel with a preface by Tony Earley.
Edited by Shannon Ravenel with a preface by Ellen Douglas.
Edited by Shannon Ravenel with a preface by Lee Smith.
Edited by Shannon Ravenel with a preface by Larry Brown.
Edited by Shannon Ravenel with a preface by Roy Blount, Jr. ISBN 9781565123953.
Edited by Shannon Ravenel with a preface by Tim Gautreaux.
Edited by Shannon Ravenel with a preface by Jill McCorkle.
Edited by Shannon Ravenel; selected and introduced by Anne Tyler.
Edited by Madison Smartt Bell and Kathy Pories with an introduction by with an introduction by Madison Smartt Bell.