Alumni Publications
Just two days after Writing alum Holly Brickley ’05 released her debut novel Deep Cuts, Deadline revealed the feature film adaptation, replete with two movie stars, an acclaimed director, and a tastemaker studio.
Writing alum Kristen Martin '16 publishes debut nonfiction book, The Sun Won’t Come Out Tomorrow (Bold Type Books, 2025).
Hogarth Press has acquired North American rights to two novels by Writing Program alum Woody Brown '24.
Film and Media Studies alum Soumya Vats ’22 has had her essay on the controversy surrounding BBC One’s A Suitable Boy published in the latest collection from Archive Books, Stretching the Archives Toward a Global Women’s Film Heritage.
Film and Media Studies alum Kate Saccone '13 has contributed a chapter to Doing Digital Film History: Concepts, Tools, Practices (De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2024), a new book examining how digital technologies have transformed film historical research and teaching practices.
Fiction alum Melora Wolff '87 has released her latest collection, Bequeath, a book of essays out now from LSU Press.
In her latest novel, Don’t Be a Stranger, Susan Minot ’83 explores the fallout from an unlikely affair and its profound impact on her heroine.
Adjunct Assistant Professor and Writing alum Emily Skillings ’17 has a new book of poems, Tantrums in Air, out June 17, 2025 from publisher The Song Cave.
Writing alum Laura Smyth ’89 has published a poetry collection, Fox Dreams. The book was released in November by Saint Julian Press, an interfaith imprint run out of the historic Trinity Episcopal Church in Houston, Texas.
How to Dodge a Cannonball, the second book from Writing alum and Adjunct Assistant Professor Dennard Dayle ’17 is being released in hardcover on June 17, 2025 from Henry Holt and Co., an imprint of Macmillan.
Writing alum Karen Russell '06 has announced the release of her latest novel The Antidote, forthcoming from Knopf in Spring 2025. The book marks Russell's first novel since her bestselling debut Swamplandia!
Writing alum Jaia Hamid Bashir ’20 has published her debut chapbook Desire/Halves with Nine Syllables Press.