The Exiles

Donald Carlson

Donald Carlson holds a PhD in Literature from the University of Dallas. He is a former Fellow in Literature at the College of Saint Thomas More and teaches English at Trinity Valley School in Fort Worth, where he also co-directs the Much Ado About Shakespeare summer workshop with his wife Anna.

Fall 2015 Issue

Peace: an Aubude Vespa

Fall 2014 Issue

Bare Trees Evening, July 3^rd Knowing

Spring 2013 Issue

The Cost Nightfall Daybreak

Meet Our Authors

Although our authors live in different parts of the world, and walk various paths of life, they all share the general conviction that literature is a worth-while endeavor which unifies us as a community. And it is in such a community that literature is most ably produced. Read More

What is Literature?

The members of The Exiles share the conviction that literature is one of the modes of knowledge through which truth becomes accessible to man. The contemplation of a literary work of art is a vision of that deeper reality which we mean by the term Truth. Read More

Who are the Exiles?

The Exiles were formally established in June 2012 as a literary club in the tradition of the Inklings of Oxford and the Fugitives of Vanderbilt University. They meet regularly to share and critique each other’s writing and to discuss literary and aesthetic theory in general. Read More