The Exiles

Sean Padraic McCarthy

Sean Padraic McCarthy has had stories published or forthcoming in Glimmer Train, december, 2 Bridges Review, Red Savina Review, The Greensboro Review, The Sewanee Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, The Chiron Review, Fifth Wednesday Journal, and Sou’wester among others. Several of his stories have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and The Best of the Net award.

Fall 2015 Issue

The Sheut

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