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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.

“You, my friends, live in one of the greatest of these places in the U.S.—Sewanee, Tennessee. You already know what I’m ...
11/07/2025

“You, my friends, live in one of the greatest of these places in the U.S.—Sewanee, Tennessee. You already know what I’m talking about: the human experience shifts. The air itself breathes differently, and you walk around on soil that you know holds not just history but the stories that can redeem history because they are ever alive, ever growing and changing inside you and those who will come after you.

This is what I mean when I say that story is a primary device of the spiritual imagination, connecting the divine to the Earth, showing us there is no separation, there never was.” —Rebecca Gayle Howell

What an immense joy, pleasure, and privilege it was to welcome Howell to the mountain this October. As the 39th recipient of the Aiken Taylor Award in Modern American Poetry, she follows in the footsteps of her mentors Wendell Berry, Nikki Finney, and Maxine Kumin.

This week, John Jeremiah Sullivan’s essay “Corona” was published in The Best American Essays, edited by Jia Tolentino. S...
10/23/2025

This week, John Jeremiah Sullivan’s essay “Corona” was published in The Best American Essays, edited by Jia Tolentino. Sullivan, a longtime contributor and friend of the magazine, first published this work of nonfiction in our Spring 2024 issue.

Tolentino describes “Corona” as “very, very funny… sneaky in the way the end line just hurts.” You can read it for free on our website through this weekend.

https://thesewaneereview.com/articles/corona

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

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