33rd Annual Sewanee Writers’ Conference
From July 18-29, 2023, the University of the South will host the 33rd annual session of the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. Supported by Tennessee Williams and the Walter E. Dakin Memorial Fund, the Conference provides promising writers instruction through workshops and craft lectures in fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and playwriting.
Although workshops are limited to Conference participants, lectures and readings are open to the public and free to attend. These events will be held in Guerry Auditorium on the corner of University Avenue and Georgia Avenue on the campus of the University of the South. Masking is required at all events.
The Conference will feature readings by fiction writers Venita Blackburn, Chris Bachelder, Kirstin Chen, Vanessa Hua, Holly Goddard Jones, Michael Knight, Leigh Newman, Maurice Carlos Ruffin, Kirstin Valdez Quade, and Stephanie Powell Watts; poets Eduardo C. Corral, Camille Dungy, Tarfia Faizullah, Nate Marshall, A. E. Stallings, and Caki Wilkinson; nonfiction writers Alexander Chee, Jaquira Díaz, Lacy M. Johnson, and Aisha Sabatini Sloan; and playwrights David Adjmi, Brittany K. Allen, Talene Monahon, and Dan O’Brien.
A complete Conference schedule can be found online at
Authors’ books are available at the University Book & Supply Store.