The Sewanee Review

12/20/2024

The SR holiday gift guide is coming to town. These six fresh reads, handpicked by our staff, might be enjoyed by a warm hearth—or tucked into the stocking of someone you love.

Head to the link to read more about these works from Orlando Reade, Kaveh Akbar, Liz Moore, Adam Moss, Jean Chevalier, and Jonathan Lethem.

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10/23/2024

The Fall 2024 issue is out today.

Read new work from Mary Jo Salter, Jenny Xie, Reginald McKnight, Dani Shapiro, and more.

The online features—Mariah Rigg’s “The All of It” and Dani Shapiro’s “Save Nothing”—are available to read for free on our website. Head to the link in bio for more.

https://thesewaneereview.com/?p=1292

08/13/2024

The Summer 2024 issue is out today.

Read the latest from new and returning contributors: Lily Meyer, Mary Jo Salter, Urvi Kumbhat, Brandon Taylor, Jami Nakamura Lin, and more.

The online feature—Brandon Taylor’s “False Light: Moral Worldbuilding And The Virtues Of Evil”—is available to read for free on our website.

https://thesewaneereview.com/articles/false-light-moral-worldbuilding-and-virtues-evil

07/31/2024

Last day to submit!

06/25/2024

Fiction writers! Poets! Essayists!

This July, the Sewanee Review will hold its seventh annual Fiction, Poetry, and Nonfiction contest.

Lorrie Moore will judge the fiction category, Shane McCrae will judge poetry, and John Jeremiah Sullivan will judge nonfiction.

Submit a short story or creative nonfiction piece of up to 10,000 words, or a selection of one to six poems.

Winners receive $1,000 and publication in the Spring 2025 issue of the magazine. All entrants receive a one-year subscription to the Review.

05/16/2024

The Spring 2024 issue is out today.

Read new work from Buku Sarkar, Patricia Smith, Lorrie Moore, John Jeremiah Sullivan, Joy Priest, and more.

This issue also includes the first-prize entries from our sixth annual Fiction, Poetry, and Nonfiction Contest.

Curious to know what you might find in these pages? The online feature—Carrie R. Moore’s “Till It and Keep It”—is available to read for free on our website:

https://thesewaneereview.com/articles/till-it-and-keep-it

04/02/2024

Exciting news from the mountain: On Thursday, April 11th, the Sewanee Review will host an open house featuring two writers at the forefront of contemporary American letters.

Stephanie Danler, author of the bestselling novel SWEETBITTER and memoir STRAY, and Cindy Juyoung Ok, author of WARD TOWARD and 2023 winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets, will join us for a reading and conversation, with a reception to follow. Books will also be available for purchase.

This event is free and open to the public.