• A Tribute to Wyatt Prunty

    Leah Stewart

    Fall 2019

    When I first came to the Sewanee Writers’ Conference in 1995, I was twenty-one, halfway through an MFA program, and so awed by the other writers I could barely bring myself to speak. It amazes me, looking back, that the Conference was actually a fairly recent creation, Wyatt Prunty having started it only six years before. In Wyatt’s own telling, he was a newly arrived faculty member at Sewanee when administrators sought his advice on how best to make use of a legacy from Tennessee Williams, left “for the purposes of encouraging creative writing and creative writers.” The Conference was born fr...

    Leah Stewart, the incoming director of the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, is the author of six novels. She teaches at the University of Cincinnati.

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    125 Years of SR

    The Sewanee Review

    The Fall 2017 issue of the Sewanee Review, due out in October, is the magazine’s five-hundredth, and marks the close of its 125th volume. In celebration of the anniversary, the issue contains images from our archives that touch on the Review’s history; however, the majority of its pages attest to the conviction that the best way to protect this legacy is to look to the future.

    On Obstinacy in Belief

    C.S. Lewis

    We have been told that the scientist thinks it his duty to proportion the strength of his belief exactly to the evidence; to believe less as there is less evidence and to withdraw belief altogether when reliable adverse evidence turns up. We have been told that, on the contrary, the Christian regards it as positively praiseworthy to believe without evidence . . .

    Venus’s Flytrap

    John Jeremiah Sullivan

    They huddle and bunch out there in the boggy pocosin, never quite closing.

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