The Sewanee School of Letters and Rivendell Writers' Colony are pleased to announce that MFA candidate Emily Ula is the recipient of the 2016 School of Letters Rivendell Fellowship.

Special thanks to 2015-2016 Tennessee Williams Playwright-in-Residence Cheri Magid for a wonderful year!

High school students who are interested in being part of Sewanee’s incoming class of 2021, and who have exceptional promise in the arts, are invited to apply for a Fellowship in the Arts.

One of our new faculty learning communities, Wordpress/Blogging, will be led by Professor Pradip Malde in the Department of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies.

Edith Freni has been appointed the Tennessee Williams Playwright-in-Residence for this academic year.

The Carlos Gallery at University of the South is pleased to present Wide Receivers and Near Misses, an exhibition by artist Lauren Ruth. Ruth is a multidisciplinary artist whose sculptural works engage issues of social ritual, participation, and the body.

The Stacy Allen Haines Lecture will be given this year on Monday, Sept. 26, by Danielle Evans, winner of numerous awards for her fiction.

A new exhibition in the Museum Gallery of University Archives and Special Collections explores the creativity and workmanship of artists working in Mexico beginning in 800 B.C.E. and concluding in the 1990s.

Stephen Miller, Professor of Music at The University of the South in Sewanee, TN, will be one of the keynote speakers for the Moccasin Bend National Park 11th Annual Fall Lecture Series in Chattanooga, TN. This series will be celebrating the 2016 Centennial of the National Park Service.

The Sewanee Writers’ Conference presents “Kathmandu: After the Quake,” photographs by Preston Merchant, C’90, through July 31 at the Bairnwick Women’s Center on campus.