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Rooted in a 32 year legacy; relevant to the South’s evolving narrative.

Support the Oxford American—where Southern stories find their home.

This year, we’ve set a target to raise $20,000 from July 1 to July 31. These funds will help us support emerging writers and artists, with a specific focus on those with non-dominant identities, and continue to share the South in all its complexity through art, storytelling, and music.

How Your Gift Can Make a Difference:

• $100: Help us license music for the annual Southern Music Issue CD sampler.

  $250: Support an Eyes on the South photo series on the web.

  $500: Send a writer on a fact-finding mission for a dispatch from the South.

  $2,500: Support an intern for a semester.

With every donation of $50 or more, you will be entered to win our Backyard Bliss Bundle, valued at $300. This exclusive bundle includes:

• A custom-embroidered OA Baggu picnic blanket 

• A custom-wrapped OA YETI Rambler mug

• The 2023 Ballads Music Issue, autographed by folk music legend Dom Flemons

• The 2020 Greatest Hits Issue, autographed by Memphis Soul artist Talibah Safiya

• A Southern Gothic Oracle card deck, generously donated by our friends at La Panthère Studio

• The beloved “Get Outside” dad hat + tote bag

• A 2024 Memphis Music Issue + Limited-Edition Vinyl Bundle (to be shipped in Winter 2024)

The South has always been home to great writers and storytellers, their prolific presence a testament to the region's intellectual and cultural richness. In return, Southern storytellers have long demonstrated, and often remarked upon, a strong sense of place.

This abundance, and that effervescant sense of place, are why the Oxford American has always had a reason to exist.

With every issue and web feature, the Oxford American reaches thousands of readers with content that embodies the complexity and vitality of the South. Our pages testify to the pursuit of something profoundly honest, singularly good, and undeniably beautiful. We are more than a publication; we are a permanent mark on the cultural map, a space where the Southern experience is expressed and experienced in all its vitality.

When you support the Oxford American, you’re not just giving a gift - you’re making a statement—a statement that independent publications matter and the Southern magazine of Great Writing should live on.

A statement that the South just has that THANG that makes for fertile ground to cultivate narratives that resonate far beyond our region.

A statement that the complexity and vitality of the South is worth exploring, and that in the pursuit of such, we might just find our common humanity.