Poetry Off the Shelf producer Curtis Fox invites Sewanee Writers’ Conference alumnus Joshua Mehigan to guide listeners through Edgar Bowers’s poem “For Louis Pasteur”. The podcast features Bowers reading his poem at the 1999 Sewanee Writers’ Conference. The poem’s dry-witted epigraph (“Who is Apollo?” College student) introduces Bowers’s concern with,…
Eight Sewanee Writers’ Conference alumni were awarded 2012 National Endowment for the Arts grants and literature fellowships in creative writing (prose). Congratulations to Belle Boggs (Walter E. Dakin Fellow/Fiction/2011); Amber Dermont (Tennessee Williams Scholar/Fiction/2010); Jennifer Haigh (Walter E. Dakin Fellow/Fiction/2003, Fiction/1999); Alan Heathcock (Walter E. Dakin Fellow/Fiction/2011); Tayari Jones (Walter E. Dakin Fellow/Fiction/2004); Porochista Khakpour (Walter E. Dakin…
As we prepare for the 2012 Sewanee Writers’ Conference (July 24 through August 5, 2012), we’d like to thank Walter E. Dakin Fellow in fiction Belle Boggs for her wonderful blog post reflecting on the 2011 Conference. With a distinguished faculty gathering for the 2012 Sewanee Writers’ Conference, next year’s…
Congratulations to Ryan Call (Tennessee Williams Scholar/Fiction/2008) for his recent selection as a 2011 Whiting Writers’ Award recipient. These prestigious awards, of $50,000 each, are given annually to emerging writers of fiction, poetry, plays, and nonfiction. Ryan Call’s debut collection of short stories, The Weather Stations (March 2011, Caketrain Press) caught…
We are pleased to announce that the 2012 Sewanee Writers’ Conference will be held from July 24 through August 5, 2012. Our distinguished faculty will provide instruction and criticism through workshops and craft lectures in poetry, fiction, and playwriting. To participate in the Conference, a writer should submit an application…
We are happy to announce that the conference schedule has been finalized, and we are excited about the abundance of great readings, lectures and panels this year. The conference begins on the evening of July 26th with a reading by fiction writer Jill McCorkle and closes on the evening of…