Pembroke Magazine, number 33 features writings about the works of novelist, teacher, and humanitarian Lee Smith.  The critic Sue Laslie Kimball suggested to Editor Shelby Stephenson that the magazine presents such a project, using as a base papers from a Southern Literary Symposium at Methodist College on Lee Smith's fiction.  Kimball and Stepehenson also invited writers and scholars to participate in this special issue.  Some of these participants are: Robert Morgan, Nancy Tilly, Robert West, Nancy Parrish, Bland Simpson, Grace Gibson, William Teem, Nancy Barrineau, Richard Vela, Jesse Peters, and so many more.

         In addition to the feature on Lee Smith, this edition of Pembroke Magazine includes a tribute to poet Gerald R. Barrax.

         Keeping with the Magazine's international identity, participating are these writers from North Wales: Alison Bielski and Richard Ball.

         There are short stories in this issue by Floyd Skloot and William B. Joyner, plus a memoir by Nancy Tilly.  And many, many poems!

         The measure of success for Pembroke 33 is the continuity of the magazine — these thirty-three years!