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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 Sewanee Review is pleased to announce that Rebecca Gayle Howell will receive the 2025 Aiken Taylor Award for Modern ...
08/22/2025

The Sewanee Review is pleased to announce that Rebecca Gayle Howell will receive the 2025 Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry.

University Vice-Chancellor Dr. Robert Pearigen and Review editor Adam Ross will present Howell with the Aiken Taylor Award this October at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. As part of this year’s award celebration, poet Corey Van Landingham will lecture on Howell’s poetry.

We hope you will join us this October to celebrate this poet and her exceptional body of work.

THREE! DAYS! LEFT!Submit a short story or creative nonfiction piece of up to 10,000 words, or a selection of one to six ...
07/28/2025

THREE! DAYS! LEFT!

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 2026 issue of the magazine. All entrants receive a one-year subscription to the Review.

This year’s judges are Lauren Groff in fiction, Cindy Juyoung Ok in poetry, and Roger Reeves in creative nonfiction.

More information about the contest is available on our Submittable page: https://thesewaneereview.com/contest

06/19/2025

Fiction writers! Poets! Essayists!

This July, the Sewanee Review will hold its eighth annual Fiction, Poetry, and Nonfiction Contest.

This year’s judges are Lauren Groff in fiction, Cindy Juyoung Ok in poetry, and Roger Reeves in creative 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 2026 issue of the magazine. All entrants receive a one-year subscription to the Review.

More information about the contest, including submission guidelines, is available on our website and Submittable page.

“he dragged her by the moon / around the earth”Visit the link in our bio to read “Mistranslation,” a new poem by Aria Cu...
05/12/2025

“he dragged her by the moon / around the earth”

Visit the link in our bio to read “Mistranslation,” a new poem by Aria Curtis from the Spring 2025 issue.

“Loneliness is a real wound / left by a false weapon” —Gabrielle Bates, “Among Orchards”The Spring 2025 issue is out tod...
05/07/2025

“Loneliness is a real wound / left by a false weapon” —Gabrielle Bates, “Among Orchards”

The Spring 2025 issue is out today.

Read new work from Sidik Fofana, Hannah Bonner, Jean Chen Ho, and more.

The online features—“Matrix, Cradler” and “Among Orchards” by Gabrielle Bates—are available to read for free on our website.

https://thesewaneereview.com/issues/spring-2025

The staff takes a springtime stroll down memory lane with three under-appreciated classics.Head to the link in our bio t...
05/02/2025

The staff takes a springtime stroll down memory lane with three under-appreciated classics.

Head to the link in our bio to read more about these works by Daphne du Maurier, Cormac McCarthy, and Jane DeLynn.

Our Spring 2025 issue is right around the corner…
05/01/2025

Our Spring 2025 issue is right around the corner…

Review editor Adam Ross—whose latest novel PLAYWORLD was published in January—will be joined in conversation by Dr. Pame...
04/08/2025

Review editor Adam Ross—whose latest novel PLAYWORLD was published in January—will be joined in conversation by Dr. Pamela Royston Macfie at the University Bookstore on Monday, April 14, at 4 p.m.

Coffee and light fare will be provided. Ross's books will be available for purchase and signing.

PLAYWORLD is a sweeping bildungsroman centered on child actor Griffin Hurt, whose story spans a year in his life as he grapples with the perils of self-performance and the crude dissolution of youth.

“What would I do in an emergency—a true emergency? That was a question I had been asking myself as of late.” —Laura van ...
02/24/2025

“What would I do in an emergency—a true emergency? That was a question I had been asking myself as of late.” —Laura van den Berg, “Ghost Horses”

The Winter 2025 issue is out today.

Read new work from Justin Taylor, Desiree Santana, Carl Phillips, Daniela Garvue, Major Jackson and more.

The online features—“Ghost Horses” and Corey Van Landingham’s “16/m/FL”—are available to read for free on our website: https://thesewaneereview.com

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.

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