The Sewanee Review

Founded at the University of the South in 1892, The Sewanee Review is the oldest continuously published literary quarterly in America. Under Allen Tate and his successors it became a citadel of the Southern literary establishment, publishing T.S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, Flannery O'Connor, and Cormac McCarthy (his first published story).

Adam Ross's editorship since 2016 modernized the operation — redesign, online submissions, higher pay — while keeping the magazine's formal seriousness. It reads during set windows via Submittable (small fee), pays contributors real rates ($100 minimum for a poem at last posting, more per page), and remains one of the few journals whose acceptance still functions as an establishment credential.