This issue of Southern Cultures celebrates the twenty-fifth anniversary of the journal's publication with a special issue titled Here/Away. The issue features contributions by Karida L. Brown, Malinda Maynor Lowery, Margaret Sartor , Mary A. Knighton, Peter Stevenson, Karen L. Cox, Burgin Mathews, Jamaal Barber, Terrell Orr, Olivia Ware Terenzio, Bill Smith, and Anna Lena Phillips Bell.