Thank you to all the writers who submitted stories to the Walker Percy Short Fiction Contest. We have almost finished reading the entries, and we will be rereading and selecting the finalists soon. We should be announcing the finalists and the winner in February. The winner will be published in the spring issue of the newly-redesigned New Orleans Review. Good luck, and thanks for your patience.

D : VERSE (design, verse):
verse: noun: a composition
using rhythm and often rhyme to create a lyrical effect
verb: to give information to

Each issue will be illuminated by designers whose work reflects and responds to contemporary culture. We believe that good design encompasses art, typography, motion, photography, and illustration, and welcome it as an element that both complements and enhances the quality writing that has always been at the heart of the magazine.

Call for design submissions that explore text and image in a dynamic way. We believe that good design encompasses art, typography, motion, photography, and illustration, and welcome it as an element that both complements and enhances the quality writing that has always been at the heart of the magazine.

Work will be selected by our design editors and a guest designer. Please enter unpublished original designs. Each designer is allowed up to 5 submissions. Winners will be featured in the first redesigned issue of New Orleans Review due out in early 2012.

Open to all designers with the exception of current students, or employees, or others affiliated with New Orleans Review or Loyola University of New Orleans.

Deadline  October 1, 2011. Please label files accordingly: Smith_John_01.jpeg (or other acceptable formats), Smith_John_02.jpeg(or other acceptable formats), etc. Winners will be contacted by October 15, 2011 for print-ready files.

An excerpt of Lad Tobin’s essay from our last issue is reprinted in the May issue of Utne Reader. Check it out here.

winner: “Prisoners of the Multiverse,” Jacob Appel

runner-up: “War Story,” Austin Wilson

honorable mention: “The Junior Embalmer,” Jane Stark
“Goat Pharmacy,” Robert Glick
“What We Do,” Cassie Condrey

finalists (in no particular order):
“A Purposeful Violence,” Nicole Louise Reid
“Fractures,” Lane Stewart
“In the Walls,” Miha Mazzini
“Original Inhabitants,” Elise Atchinson
“Ruins,” Laura McHugh

semifinalists (in no particular order):
“The Shootist,” Vickie Weaver
“Fool that I Am,” Thomas Linville
“The Box,” Samantha Villenave
“The Puzzle Man,” Meghan Plummer
“Fishbone Confessions,” Lucille Bellucci
“Shrieking Gesticulating Women,” Martin Cloutier
“Dancer at the Jump,” James O’Brien
“When Santa Claus Comes Knocking…” Levi Henricksen
“Sukinshippu,” Jim Bainbridge
“The Victim’s Father,” Robert Goodwin
“One of the Funner Parties I’ve Been To,” Katya Apekina
“The Story of the Eclipse,” Mark McBride
“Reading Ann Carson at the Beach,” Ruth Joffre
“Do the October Dangle,” Matthew Pitt
“The Puzzle Man,” Meghan Plummer
“The Visit,” Michael Tasker
“The Woodcutter,” Rachel Yoder
“Bigger than a Grain of Rice,” Arin Black
“Mickey and Me,” Jeff McConaghy
“Gunn,” Nora Khan
“Mistletoe Man,” Ann Ritter
“Reliable Source,” Benjamin Morris
“The Substitute,” Jonathan Potter
“The Water Behind,” Ross McMeekin
“Tramp,” Karen Tucker