There's still time to apply to the 2012 Sewanee Writers' Conference. Our application deadline is April 15. Please note that our online application system will close at 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, April 15. We are excited about the applications we have received this year. It's shaping up to be a great Conference, with an outstanding faculty and visitor lineup.
Fiction writers Jill McCorkle and Allan Gurganus will read from their work on Wednesday, April 11, in Gailor Auditorium, beginning at 4:45 PM. All are cordially invited to attend the reading as well as the book-signing opportunity and reception that will follow. Jill McCorkle is the author of four story…
Tennessee Williams Playwright-in-Residence and Visiting Assistant Professor of English David Roby will premiere his new play about Tennessee Williams, “Sometimes There’s God So Quickly,” March 30-April 1. Roby traveled through Clarksdale and Columbus, Miss., the Mississippi Delta, New Orleans, and New York interviewing people who were close to Tennessee Williams or…
Our annual SWC alumni party, which takes place at the Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference, will be in Chicago this year. The party, which is open to all SWC alumni and guests, will be on Friday, March 2, from 7:00 - 8:15 p.m. It will take place…
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…