The Exiles

Thomas A. Beyer

Thomas A. Beyer is a former student at the College of Saint Thomas More in Fort Worth. He is currently attending Texas Woman’s University seeking the completion of his Bachelor of Arts in English Literature. In June 2012 he and several other former members of Saint Thomas More founded The Exiles in an effort to carry on some semblance of that institution’s singular legacy of the love of learning and truth. He is also a new husband and father.

Spring 2013 Issue

A harvest moon in winter La Città Eterna The Old Songs The Oxford Book of American Short Stories, 2nd ed

Fall 2012 Issue

Behind the veil of heaven Dilate pupils, open wide Felix culpa Nihil sub sole novum

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