About

The Swannanoa Review is metaphysically and geographically inspired by two institutions near the Swannanoa River Valley: Black Mountain College—an experimental, arts-focused college with a lasting legacy despite its brief existence—and the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College—the country’s first low-residency writing program whose teachers and students have made an outsized mark in the literary world.

As impressive as the list of alumni and faculty from both these schools are, what inspires us more are their prevailing character traits: a generosity of spirit, a willingness to experiment, and a serious (and seriously joyful) creative rigor.

That is what we hope The Swannanoa Review may bring to the world.

We seek unsolicited, original submissions of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction from writers of all backgrounds. We ask for 3-5 poems and up to 15 pages of prose.

A quarterly publication, each edition is between 55 & 64 (digital, for now) pages — in honor of the stretch of Interstate 40 in North Carolina (Exit 55 to Exit 64) that runs from Warren Wilson, through Swannanoa, to Black Mountain.

We are proud members of CLMP.

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Founding Editors

Reed Turchi and Kate Welsh

Poetry Readers

Georgia M. Brodsky, Eli Karren, Maja Lukic, and Jacob Sheetz-Willard

Fiction Readers

Jason Bowman, Drew Coles, Madison Cyr, and Nathaniel Moore

Advisor

Ellen Bryant Voigt