In the Woods They Wait. (Little, Brown, Sept. 22, 2026. Editor: Liv Ryan. Agent: Via Romano.) Carrie Lee South earned her MFA at the Arkansas Writers Workshop where she served as the fiction editor for the literary magazine Arkana. She’s currently the fiction editor at StoryBottle Co. Her work has appeared in Waxwing, F(r)iction, Iron Horse Literary Review, Tales to Terrify, and elsewhere. When she’s not reading and writing, she’s spending time with birds—the ones outside and the four parrots that live in her house. How did you find your agent? I started by reading through the acknowledgements of some […]
