December 2, 2012

The Oxford American, which was founded in Oxford, Mississippi, in 1992, began as a monthly journal of southern culture and literature. The journal was moved to Little Rock (Pulaski County) in 2003, but after only four issues, it became affiliated with the University of Central Arkansas (UCA) in Conway (Faulkner County). Billing itself as “The Southern Magazine of Good Writing,” the now-quarterly magazine publishes short fiction, poetry, and articles in a glossy format in the vein of Harper’s or the Atlantic Monthly and is best known for its music issue, which focuses on often-overlooked southern musicians.