We celebrate a generosity of spirit, a willingness to experiment, and a serious (and seriously joyful) creative rigor. 

This literary magazine’s ethos takes its cues from two institutions near the Swannanoa River Valley: Black Mountain College—an experimental, arts-focused college with a lasting legacy despite its brief existence—and from 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. 

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. 

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