The 2020 SANTA FE LITERARY REVIEW issue is live and available to all – throughout Santa Fe and beyond. For your copy, email sflr(at)sfcc.edu. This year’s issue features an exclusive interview with Layli Long Soldier, winner of the Whiting Award and the Lannan Literary Award.
The AWP Conference in San Antonio was a huge success – and will likely be the last of its kind for a while. With panels readings spanning every literary topic, the conference was an opportunity to network, learn, and distribute the 2019 issue of the SFLR.
Read the full article, here. An Excerpt: “McCahill took over running the magazine from Sagan in 2016, after she worked, at Sagan’s invitation, alongside student interns. Those students continue in the tradition of reading the slush submitted from June to November. Each submission is read by three interns who evaluate the pieces before turning them over to the editors overseeing the genres of poetry, nonfiction and […]
The Santa Fe Literary Review is so proud to feature an original interview with Tommy Orange in next year’s issue, themed Raíces: Down to the Roots. Alongside the interview, Kate and team are thrilled to be placing an original, unpublished story, “Shenandoah.” Tommy Orange’s first novel, There There, has been lauded by editors and critics representing the New York Times, the New Yorker, the Paris Review, […]
Kate was proud to travel to Phoenix, Arizona, in November to present at NonFiction NOW 2018. Alongside Michele Morano, Philip Graham, Audrey Petty, and Mimi Schwartz Graham presented on the topic of “Hauntings in Nonfiction.” We’re grateful to Stacy Murison at Assay Journal for her graceful writeup of our panel.
We’re proud to announce that “Junk Mail,” Kate’s short essay on mail, family, and memory, appears in this month’s issue of UNDER THE GUM TREE. “Under the Gum Tree is a reader supported, quarterly literary arts magazine, publishing creative nonfiction and visual art in the form of a micro-magazine. We believe in the power of sharing a story without shame. Too much of the human experience gets […]
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We’re delighted to announce that Foreword Reviews has named this year’s INDIES Winners – and PATAGONIAN ROAD has earned the Bronze Award in Travel. A bit about Foreword Reviews: “For twenty years now, Foreword has been delivering long-form book reviews of independently published books. We’ve worked hard to develop a core group of fifty skilled freelance reviewers to write competently about virtually all subjects, whether […]
Thrilled to announce that PATAGONIAN ROAD has been nominated as a finalist for the Firecracker Awards, hosted by the CLMP – the Community of Literary Magazines and Presses. #gratitude The CLMP Firecracker Awards for Independently and Self-Published Literature are a revitalized iteration of the Firecracker Alternative Book Award, originally established in 1996. This distinguished literary awards series spotlights books and magazines making a sparkling contribution to our […]
Thursday, March 22 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Santa Fe Writers Project PATAGONIAN ROAD named 2017 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards Finalist Washington, D.C., Santa Fe Writers Project—Today, SFWP is pleased to announce PATAGONIAN ROAD has been recognized as a finalist in the 20th annual Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards. As part of its mission to discover, review, and share the best […]
We’re proud to announce that ATTICUS REVIEW’s David Olimpio has taken the time to review PATAGONIAN ROAD. Olimpio writes: Whether she is renting the spare room of an older sister in Buenos Aires, hiking the backpacker’s trail to Machu Picchu, or installing stoves in the remote hamlets of Guatemala, McCahill chronicles it all. There is the copper-colored setting sun in Granada; the colorful restaurants lining […]
We’re grateful to Brenda O’Brien, Readers and Reference Librarian at the Woodbridge Public Library, for posting a brief and glowing review of PATAGONIAN ROAD! The Woodbridge Library, located in Woodbridge, Illinois, posts frequent reviews of books large and small. Brenda writes: Kate McCahill brings the reader along on her yearlong journey through Central and South America, roughly following by bus the journey Paul Theroux made decades […]
I couldn’t be more thrilled to read about my own book in the pages of my beloved alma mater’s quarterly magazine. I love you, Wellesley! Special thanks to Kate Erickson (@katefromky) for the thoughtful and sensitive review. “Patagonian Road is a sprawling tale built of present-tense vignettes and vivid flashbacks, rooting the year of discovery in deeply personal ground. Her memoir stands alone. McCahill’s Finnish […]
Click here for NewPages’ review of PATAGONIAN ROAD! Kelly Sauvage Angel writes, “I owe [McCahill] a debt of gratitude for inspiring me to step back from life as I know it, complete with deadlines, bottom lines, and intertwining timelines, and determine for myself whether there might be another way to navigate the second half of my life, one in which “Nothing matters more than this […]
