The Sewanee Review: The revival of Tennessee's storied literary magazine

This Is Nashville · Mar 18, 2025 · 50m

After 43 years under the same editor, the literary magazine — which had once published the work of Southern writers like Flannery O’Connor, Eudora Welty and William Faulkner — had fallen into a slump.

But, in 2016, Nashville-based writer Adam Ross took over as editor. Since then, the review has seen a revival. Ross has brought the previously print-only journal into the digital age — it now has a website, an Instagram, a podcast — and has published the work of contemporary literary giants.

In this episode, we hear from the review’s editorial staff and a recently published writer about the…