The National Book Foundation announced the longlist for the 2021 National Book Awards, nominating School of the Arts alumni Baba Badji ‘15 and Jakob Guanzon ‘17 and Journalism School alumna Paula Yoo (‘92 JRN) for the historic literary prize.

Anchor Books recently published The Best Short Stories 2021: The O. Henry Prize Winners, a twenty-story collection which includes “Brown Girls” by alumna Daphne Palasi Andreades ’19.

Translated from the Korean, The World’s Lightest Motorcycle examines human identity in the face of a high-tech, wired world.

First established in 1991 as the Violet Crown Award, the Writers' League of Texas Book Award is an annual award that recognizes exceptional storytelling for Texas authors in the genres of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, picture books, and middle grade/young adult books.

Co-written by Paulina Pinksy '18 and her father Dr.

During last month's Norwegian Film Festival in Haugesund, the 2021 Arne Hestenes Journalism Award was presented to Writing alumna Ida Lødemel Tvedt '17.

Sanches was longlisted for her prose translation of Natalia Borges Polesso's Amora: Stories (Amazon Crossing, 2020). Smith and co-translator Changtai Bi made the poetry longlist for My Name Will Grow Wide Like a Tree: Selected Poems (Graywolf Press, 2020) by Yi Lei.

According to Lambda Literary, the award "honors lesbian/queer-identified women and trans/gender non-conforming nonfiction authors...committed to nonfiction work that captures the depth and complexity of lesbian/queer life, culture, and/or history."

The debut novel follows seventeen-year-old Joshua Gaines, an orphan who dreams of becoming a doctor like his late father, but finds himself on the run from his father's debt.

Here, we talk with alumna and adjunct faculty membmer BK Fischer about the poetics of interruption, generative failure, and allowing ourselves to lie fallow.