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23 June 2023 Seneca Review Releases Vol. 53, No. 1
The latest issue of Hobart and William Smith Colleges’ internationally renowned literary journal is now available.
Seneca Review’s new issue features poems, essays, art and multimodal work by some of today’s most innovative established and emerging writers and artists.
“For this current issue, we carefully curated a selection of pieces from thousands of submissions," says Associate Professor of English Geoffrey Babbitt, Editor of Seneca Review. "The issue features both top-of-the-field writers alongside rising stars of great promise. Their collected accolades include Guggenheim and NEA Fellowships, Smithsonian Institute Fellowships, Wallace Stegner Fellowships, Whiting Award winners, multiple awards by the Poetry Society of America and the Academy of American Poets, Pushcart Prize winners and much more.”
Seneca Review Vol. 53, No. 1 includes work by Wayne Koestenbaum, Wendy S. Walters, Sarah J. Sloat, G.C. Waldrep, Mark Wunderlich, Angie Estes, Dobby Gibson, Myronn Hardy, Danielle Cadena Deulen, Jax Connelly, Sarah-Jane Crowson, Cole Depuy, Jessica Hammack, Eva Heisler, C. E. Janecek, Betsy Johnson, Christen Noel Kauffman, Alicia Byrne Keane, Lucien Darjeun Meadows, Philip Metres, Skyler Osborne, Benjamin Paloff, Emily Pérez, Elim Pilet, Tyler Raso, Gabriel Antonio Reed, Esteban Rodríguez, Catie Rosemurgy, Ross White, and Jordan Windholz.
The issue’s cover features artwork by Professor of Art Nick Ruth, whose multimedia landscape This Place II was recently acquired by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Published by Hobart and William Colleges Press, Seneca Review has sought out and cultivated groundbreaking writers for more than 50 years. Known as the birthplace of the Lyric Essay, the magazine was an early champion of multimodal and hybrid-forms writing; the anthology We Might As Well Call it the Lyric Essay is a seminal text in creative nonfiction. Seneca Review has also published special issues on translation, on writing about disability and on writing that is “beyond category.”
Seneca Review writers have won virtually every major literary honor, including the Nobel Prize, Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, Bollingen Prize, Nation Book Critics Circle Award, Lenore Marshall Award, National Poetry Series, Yale Younger Poets Prize and the Lannan Literary Fellowship among others.
Babbitt notes that one of the magazine’s longtime commitments “is to discover talented new writers and to lift them up. Indeed, our brand new Senior Editor of Essays, Jenny Boully, who was HWS’ 2022-23 Trias Writer-in-Residence, first published a section of her seminal book The Body in Vol. 31, No. 1 of Seneca Review, 22 years ago. The book is now considered one of the most groundbreaking and innovative in the field, and Boully one of the most important American essayists. We are lucky to have her as part of our team.”
Learn more about the Seneca Review, Seneca Review Books, Hobart and William Smith Colleges Press and the Deborah Tall Lyric Essay Book Prize here.
