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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
It is thanks to the generosity of Tennessee Williams that the Sewanee Writers' Conference exists. Williams, American playwright and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, left the residual portion of his estate…
Masha Hamilton (Fiction, 1998) was recently chosen as the winner of the 2010 Women’s National Book Association Award. The award is presented to a living American woman who derives part or…
Finalists were announced for the 2011 Los Angeles Times Book Prizes for the best books of 2010, and we were happy to see a number of conference alumni and faculty…
Our annual SWC alumni party, which takes place at the Associated Writing Programs Conference, is happening again in Washington, DC. The party, which is open to all SWC alumni and…
Distinguished fiction writers and members of the Fellowship of Southern Writers, Richard Bausch and Allen Wier will read from their work on Thursday, November 18, in Gailor Auditorium, beginning at…
New members of the Fellowship of Southern Writers, a group of artists seeking to recognize and encourage literature in the South, were announced recently, and we were happy to see…
From July 26 through August 7, 2011, the University of the South will host the twenty-second session of the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. Supported by the Walter E. Dakin Memorial Fund…
We're happy to see so many familiar names in the Best American Series for 2010. Bryan Furuness, who attended this past summer's conference as a Tennessee Williams Scholar, had his…
On August 19th, Mary Jo Salter's poem "Midsummer, Georgia Avenue" was featured on NPR's The Writer's Almanac. The poem, which is set in Sewanee (at Stirling's Coffee House to be…
And so we came to the end. It’s not surprising in a situation where you’ve become close to a lot of people that the leave-taking can be painful. Because half…
Incredibly, the end is near. I hate to say that, but we’ve only got a couple of days left. The last two days have been filled with highlights, but I’d…
I’d be lying if I said that my own reading on Sunday afternoon wasn’t a highlight of the past couple of days for me. I was more nervous than I…
I can’t believe it’s Saturday already—and I missed the bird watching walk AGAIN. I just had work to do—manuscripts to read for today’s workshops—and couldn’t afford the time. I’m hopeful…
We are happy to have Cliff Garstang back in Sewanee this summer for the 2010 conference. Cliff has previously attended in 2004 and 2008 as a conferee and in 2006…
We are happy to learn that Laura van den Berg (Tennessee Williams Scholar, Fiction 2009) has been named a finalist for the Frank O'Connor Short Story Award, the world's richest prize…
We are happy to unveil the schedule for the 2010 Sewanee Writers' Conference. Robert Hass will kick off the conference with a reading on the evening of July 13 and…
Christine Schutt and Claudia Emerson, who will be on faculty for the upcoming conference, will appear in DZANC Book's Best of the Web 2010 anthology. The Best of the Web…
The application deadline for the 2010 Sewanee Writers' Conference is May 15th. If you are still considering applying, we encourage you to do so as soon as possible.
We are excited to see so many Sewanee alums appear on the longlist for the Frank O'Connor Short Story Award, the world's richest prize for the short story. Previous winners…
Glenn Blake (John N. Wall Fellow, Fiction, 2004) will read from his work on Tuesday, April 20, at the McGriff Alumni House at Sewanee: The University of the South, beginning…
We're happy to say that we'll be having our annual alumni party at the AWP Conference, this time in Denver, Colorado. Mark your calendars for Friday, April 9 from 7:00…
Josh Weil, a Tennessee Williams Scholar in 2008 and a Walter E. Dakin Fellow in 2009, has won the prestigious Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy…
We are saddened to hear that Barry Hannah, a great friend of the conference, passed away on Monday, March 1. Barry was a member of the fiction faculty at Sewanee…
We were excited to learn that David Philip Mullins (Stanley Elkin Scholar/Fiction/2008) won the prestigious Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction from Sarabande Books. We asked David for his thoughts…
Amy Greene’s (Fiction/2007) debut novel, Bloodroot, was released in January, and it is already receiving some incredible praise from critics. Kirkus Reviews said the book was “Bound to be a…