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The Sewanee Review The oldest continuously published literary quarterly in America, founded in 1892. S.

Founded in 1892 by the teacher and critic William Peterfield Trent, the Sewanee Review is the longest-running literary quarterly in America. The SR has published many of the twentieth century’s great writers, including T. Eliot, William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Wallace Stevens, Saul Bellow, Katherine Anne Porter, Marianne Moore, Seamus Heaney, Hannah Arendt, and Ezra Pound. The Review has a long tr

adition of cultivating emerging talent, from excerpts of Cormac McCarthy and Flannery O’Connor’s first novels to the early poetry of Robert Penn Warren, Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, and Christian Wiman. “ Whatever the new literature turns out to be,” wrote editor Allen Tate in 1944, “ it will be the privilege of the Sewanee Review to print its share of it, to comment on it, and to try to understand it.” The mission remains unchanged.

The SR holiday gift guide is coming to town. These six fresh reads, handpicked by our staff, might be enjoyed by a warm ...
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.

America's oldest continuously published literary magazine.

The Fall 2024 issue is out today. Read new work from Mary Jo Salter, Jenny Xie, Reginald McKnight, Dani Shapiro, and mor...
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

Last day to submit!
07/31/2024

Last day to submit!

Fiction writers! Poets! Essayists!This July, the Sewanee Review will hold its seventh annual Fiction, Poetry, and Nonfic...
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.

The Spring 2024 issue is out today.Read new work from Buku Sarkar, Patricia Smith, Lorrie Moore, John Jeremiah Sullivan,...
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

Exciting news from the mountain: On Thursday, April 11th, the Sewanee Review will host an open house featuring two write...
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.

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