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It has been 30 years since the Oxford American first showed up on newsstands, bringing its distinctly Southern accent to the American literary magazine landscape. This month, with its Spring issue, the plucky, Conway-based nonprofit begins a yearlong commemoration of three decades of sending into the world voices and stories from the South in all their strange, radiant, complicated glory.
It has been 30 years since the Oxford American first showed up on newsstands, bringing its distinctly Southern accent to the American literary magazine landscape. This month, with its Spring issue, the plucky, Conway-based nonprofit begins a yearlong commemoration of three decades of sending into the world voices and stories from the South in all their strange, radiant, complicated glory.