Read Natalie Villacorta's new craft essay, "The Reality Effect," on techniques to employ writing autofiction! Find it on our website!

Don't be scared of the big, omniscient, third-person narrator! In her craft essay "Third-Person Omniscient Narration: Be the God of Your Stories," Sakinah Hofler explores techniques, examples, and offers writing prompts to introduce third-person narration into your fiction.

Come live and write with us in Sewanee! The Department of English & Creative Writing's is seeking applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Poetry position! Apply by Nov. 3.

SWC is publishing craft essays! We accept submissions in fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and playwriting and pay contributors a flat $500 to publish essays online. Writers do not have to be associated with the conference to submit. Deadline Oct. 15. Link can be found on our Instagram!

True or true: One @lacymjohnson.bsky.social is the actual GOAT. (Sorry, goat-goats 🐐, but it’s true.) #sewaneewriters #sewaneewritersconference #sewaneemagic #mformotherfuckin

True or false: This goat looks precisely how we all feel at this point in the conference #sewaneewriters #sewaneewritersconference #sewaneemagic

Writers reading #sewaneewriters #sewaneewritersconference #sewaneemagic

Nature break 🌳 #sewaneewritersconference #sewaneewriters #sewaneemagic

@rokwon.bsky.social at her terrific @sewaneewriters.bsky.social reading: “Push each line to be the most truest, living version of itself. This is your life. This is your joy, don't get distracted.”

Having a blast! Encouraged to learn that more #AAPI parents are encouraging, (or at least allowing) their kids topursue writing: fiction, nonfiction, poetry or playwriting. Many of them have MFAs from top programs too. @sewaneewriters.bsky.social

All the world’s a stage, and all the #sewaneewriters merely karaoke stars. 🎤 #sewaneewritersconference #sewaneemagic

Writers (not) at work. #sewaneewritersconference #sewaneewriters #sewaneemagic

We are just the tiniest bit happy to be back… #sewaneewritersconference #sewaneewriters #sewaneemagic

It’s go time! #sewaneewritersconference #sewaneewriters #sewaneemagic

We're floored by the talent joining us this summer for the 2025 Sewanee Writers' Conference! Congrats to all of these fabulous writers. You're amazing on the page, and we can't wait to meet you in person!

SWC has started publishing craft essays as a resource for the larger writing community! We'd like to give a HUGE thanks to the Arts Build Communities grant from the Tennessee Arts Commission that made this venture possible. #craftessays #writers #playwriting #fiction #nonfiction #poetry

Lydi Conklin's 'Songs of No Provenance' is out today! Lydi was a Walter E. Dalkin Fellow in 2024, and we couldn't be happier for them. Check out their socials to learn more about book tour dates and other events! #sewaneewritersconference #book #pubday #songsofnoprovenance #lydiconklin #writers

We are featured in Garden & Gun's "What's Happening in the South" as the Tennesee event of the summer! gardenandgun.com/articles/wha...

Some of our wonderful 2025 faculty and beloved staff members are participating @ AWP, and we couldn't be more excited! 🤩 See you in LA!

We are going to LA! Join us for our alumni reception on Friday, March 28, from 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM in Gold Ballroom 4 at the JW Marriott! Also, don't forget to swing by our book fair table (#423) with the Sewanee Review and Sewanee School of Letters. Can't wait to see you there!

Today is March 1! That means it is the LAST DAY TO APPLY to come hang out with us this summer! It is a quick app! You still have time! Go go go! sewaneewriters.org/apply

I got my start in fiction at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, which is now open for applications on their shiny new website … which they’re so excited about that they forgot to include it in their post. 😀 We’ve all been there, and here’s where they are - swc.sewanee.edu

Good news comes in threes, right? Well here we go! 1. We’ve been busy building a pretty new website for y’all, so give it a browse! While you’re there… 2. Find all the info you need to APPLY NOW for the 2025 conference, open through March 1! 3. Read up on our 2025 faculty! AKA…