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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 Caki Wilkinson will receive the 2026 Aiken Taylor Award for Modern Americ...
08/31/2026

The Sewanee Review is pleased to announce that Caki Wilkinson will receive the 2026 Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry.

Wilkinson is the author of the poetry collections CIRCLES WHERE THE HEAD SHOULD BE, THE WYNONA STONE POEMS, and THE SURVIVAL EXPO. A graduate of Rhodes College, she earned an MFA at Johns Hopkins University and a PhD at the University of Cincinnati. She lives in Memphis, Tennessee.

University Vice-Chancellor Dr. Robert Pearigen and Review editor Adam Ross will present Wilkinson with the Aiken Taylor Award this October at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. As part of this year’s award celebration, the writers Alice Bolin and Daniel Hornsby will lecture on Wilkinson’s poetry.

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

07/29/2026

"I was nine months pregnant when I fell asleep at the wheel. Two kids were in the car—three if you counted the one still cooking. On a semirural road between my mom’s house and the apartment I no longer shared with my rat husband, I dozed off and the Mazda drifted indifferently into a Christmas tree farm. When I opened my eyes, we had crushed a blue spruce. My chief concern was not what had happened but how much worse it should have been. We were unharmed." —Emily Adrian, "Damaged Goods"

The Summer 2026 issue is out today.

In our latest issue, Patricia Lockwood carves something new from something old. Laurie Gunst breaks and enters into the dialogue of abandoned objects. Victoria Chang leaves things unsaid.

https://thesewaneereview.com/issues/summer-2026

OUR ANNUAL CONTEST IS LIVE!This July, the Sewanee Review is holding its ninth annual Fiction, Poetry, and Nonfiction Con...
07/20/2026

OUR ANNUAL CONTEST IS LIVE!

This July, the Sewanee Review is holding its ninth annual Fiction, Poetry, and Nonfiction Contest.

This year’s judges are Madeline Cash in fiction, Eduardo C. Corral in poetry, and Merve Emre 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 2027 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. https://sewanee.submittable.com/submit/108970/the-sewanee-review-fiction-poetry-nonfiction-contest

05/13/2026

“Last fall—persimmon, muscadine— / this spring, all summer, welcome in.” —Anna Lena Phillips Bell, “Bref Doubles for a Late Conception”

The Spring 2026 issue is out today.

Read new work by Garrett Hongo, Rebecca Gayle Howell, Jos Charles, and more.

The online feature—“Accurate Witness” by Nell Freudenberger—is available to read for free on our website. Head to the link in bio.

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