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.https://web.archive.org/web/20071011080646/http://algonquin.com/products/9781565125315/
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.
New Stories from the South: The Year's Best, 1986. Edited by Shannon Ravenel. .
New Stories from the South: The Year's Best, 1987. Edited by Shannon Ravenel. .
New Stories from the South: The Year's Best, 1988. Edited by Shannon Ravenel. .
New Stories from the South: The Year's Best, 1989. Edited by Shannon Ravenel. .
New Stories from the South: The Year's Best, 1990. Edited by Shannon Ravenel. .
New Stories from the South: The Year's Best, 1991. Edited by Shannon Ravenel. .
New Stories from the South: The Year's Best, 1992. Edited by Shannon Ravenel. .
New Stories from the South: The Year's Best, 1993. Edited by Shannon Ravenel. .
New Stories from the South: The Year's Best, 1994. Edited by Shannon Ravenel. .
New Stories from the South: The Year's Best, 1995. Edited by Shannon Ravenel. .
New Stories from the South: The Year's Best, 1996. Edited by Shannon Ravenel. .
Best of the South: From Ten Years of New Stories from the South. 1997. Selected and introduced by Anne Tyler. .
New Stories from the South: The Year's Best, 1997. Edited by Shannon Ravenel with a preface by Robert Olen Butler. .
New Stories from the South: The Year's Best, 1998. Edited by Shannon Ravenel with a preface by Padgett Powell. .
New Stories from the South: The Year's Best, 1999. Edited by Shannon Ravenel with a preface by Tony Earley. .
New Stories from the South: The Year's Best, 2000. Edited by Shannon Ravenel with a preface by Ellen Douglas. .
New Stories from the South: The Year's Best, 2001. Edited by Shannon Ravenel with a preface by Lee Smith. .
New Stories from the South: The Year's Best, 2002. Edited by Shannon Ravenel with a preface by Larry Brown. .
New Stories from the South: The Year's Best, 2003. Edited by Shannon Ravenel with a preface by Roy Blount, Jr. .
New Stories from the South: The Year's Best, 2004. Edited by Shannon Ravenel with a preface by Tim Gautreaux. .
New Stories from the South: The Year's Best, 2005. Edited by Shannon Ravenel with a preface by Jill McCorkle. .
Best of the South: From the Second Decade of New Stories from the South. 2005. Edited by Shannon Ravenel; selected and introduced by Anne Tyler. .
New Stories from the South: The Year's Best, 2006. Edited by Alan Gurganus and Kathy Pories with a preface by Alan Gurganus. .
New Stories from the South: The Year's Best, 2007. Edited by Edward P. Jones. .
New Stories from the South 2008: The Year's Best. Edited by ZZ Packer and Kathy Pories with an introduction by ZZ Packer. .
New Stories from the South 2009: The Year's Best. Edited by Madison Smartt Bell and Kathy Pories with an introduction by with an introduction by Madison Smartt Bell. .
New Stories from the South: The Year's Best, 2010. Edited by Amy Hempel and Kathy Pories with an introduction by Amy Hempel. .