The Southern Summer Book Club Hosted by Author, Bradley Sides
Join Southern Review of Book’s Southern Summer Book Club with Author of The Bystanders, Dawn Major and Host, Bradley Sides. Connect with writers, teachers, and librarians for fun summer reads.
Summer Selections: Behind the Waterline by Kionna Walker LeMalle (June 23rd), Hellions by Julia Elliott (July 28th), and Junah at the End of the World by Dan Leach (August 25th)
TO JOIN: Topic: SRB, Hellions Book Club
Time: Jul 1, 2025 06:00 PM Central Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting
Meeting ID: 837 1199 5932
Passcode: 4muYem
How it works: Snag a copy of the book from your local indie bookstore and read at your own pace. Southern Review of Books will post virtual discussions with a group of fellow writers, teachers, librarians, and book-world voices on their website (SRB) the last week of June, July, and August. Watch and share with anyone else who has read these awesome books and share your thoughts in the comments! Plus, stay tuned for an interview with the author of each of SRB’s featured books.
About
Bradley Sides is the author of two short story collections, Those Fantastic Lives and Crocodile Tears Didn’t Cause the Flood, which was a finalist for 2024 Book of the Year at Southern Literary Review. His stories appear at BULL, Ghost Parachute, Necessary Fiction, Psychopomp, Superstition Review, and elsewhere, and they been nominated for Year’s Best Weird Fiction and featured on LeVar Burton Reads.
Dawn Major’s debut novel, The Bystanders, was named finalist for 2024 Georgia Author of the Year for Best First Novel. Major has a graduate degree in Creative Writing, is associate editor at Southern Literary Review, and a co-editor at WELL READ Magazine where she writes a column called “TripLit with D. Major.” She enjoys advocating for Southern writers and artists on her blog, SouthernRead.