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This week on podcast, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah and editor-at-large Sidik Fofana discuss the value of short-form narratives, the impossible goal of “winning” capitalism, and the dangers of recreating the violence one seeks to dismantle through writing. thesewaneereview.com/media/podcast/…

This week on the Conglomerate, Summer 2024 contributors Caitlin McCormick and Eduardo Martínez-Leyva revisit old favorites. Martínez-Leyva finds solace in a poem by Aracelis Girmay. McCormick considers queer parenthood in Carmen Maria Machado’s “Mothers." Link in bio.

This week on the Conglomerate, Fall 2024 contributor James Davis May analyzes a stanza from “Oysters" by Seamus Heaney. Head to the link in bio for more.

These six fresh reads, handpicked by our staff, might be enjoyed by a warm hearth—or tucked into the stocking of someone you love. thesewaneereview.com/articles/staff…

Winter break is for catching up on lit mag reading. Here’s one of six poems by Victoria Chang in The Sewanee Review from 2021.

the only things i published last year that i really care about

This week on the Sewanee Review Podcast, editor Adam Ross discusses his highly anticipated novel PLAYWORLD with fellow novelist and colleague Justin Taylor. Head to the link in our bio to listen to the full episode.

This week on the Conglomerate, Fall 2024 contributor Alix Ohlin meditates on a passage from THE HOLE by @holeandweasel. Head to the link in bio for more.

This past July, the Sewanee Review held its seventh annual Fiction, Poetry, and Nonfiction Contest. We received over 1,100 submissions. Today we are pleased to announce the winners: thesewaneereview.com/contest

I’m thrilled to share that part of my MFA thesis was selected by John Jeremiah Sullivan as the runner-up essay in the 2024 nonfiction contest The Sewanee Review! thesewaneereview.com/contest

Kyle Okeke Wins The Sewanee Review (The Sewanee Review) Poetry Contest 2024 jaylit.com/kyle-okeke-win…

“It’s grief, / capsized, / an itch / of otherwise. // The wind / elides— / relief / a thief— // the double life / of consonants: / passing; running. / Theatrical // as the clap / of a laptop” —Randall Mann, “Double Life” The Sewanee Review Copper Canyon Press

This week on the Sewanee Review Podcast, Tyriek White, author of WE ARE A HAUNTING, sits down with our editor-at-large Sidik Fofana (STORIES FROM THE TENANTS DOWNSTAIRS) to discuss the ways magical realism can be a vehicle for truth. Head to the link in our bio to listen.

I can't believe how lucky I was today to record an episode of the Sewanee Review podcast with Jim Whiteside, hang out with the incredible The Sewanee Review staff, and join Dr. Stephanie McCarter for a Classics-focused keynote on Helen of Troy, 1993. Sewanee, you are so good to me.

What a great feature by WPLN News - Nashville Public Radio on the The Sewanee Review— I love how the new editor, Adam Ross, says a story should be "sticky" and work as part of a "mix tape": wpln.org/post/episodes/… #SouthernStories #SouthernWriting

What’s on our shelves! The latest issues of The Sewanee Review and SouthernHumanitiesReview

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. thesewaneereview.com/contest

This week on the Sewanee Review Podcast, assistant editor Brighid Griffin is joined by fiction writer and cartoonist Lydi Conklin, whose debut novel SONGS OF NO PROVENANCE was released in May of this year. thesewaneereview.com/media/podcast/…