News
Pleasure Principle, a debut poetry collection by writing alumna Madeleine Cravens ’22, will be published by Scribner in June, 2024.
American Diva, a new work of literary nonfiction by Writing Chair and Associate Professor Deborah Paredez, will be published by W.W. Norton in May 2024.
Writing alumnus Steve Schwartz ’73 is producing Anniversary, an upcoming thriller joining Schwartz's lineup of memorable movies, including All the Old Knives, The Road, and The Counselor.
The Hearing Test, a debut novel by Writing alumna and Adjunct Assistant Professor Eliza Barry Callahan ’22 (CC ’17) was published by Catapult Books, distributed by Penguin Random House, in March 2024.
The Child, a second novel by Writing alumnus Alistair Mackay '18 is forthcoming in April 2024 from Kwela Books, an imprint of the South African publishing house, NB Publishers.
We talk with Associate Professor Wendy Walters about the interplay between poetry and nonfiction, the art of concealing knee-deep research within a good memoir, and the crucial role of sleep in a writer’s daily routine.
Adjunct Assistant Professor Christine Smallwood has published La Captive (Fireflies Press, 2023), a close look at Chantal Akerman's 2000 film of the same name, loosely based on Marcel Proust's The Prisoner.
WATCHNIGHT, the Laughlin Award-winning collection by writing alumnus Cyrée Jarelle Johnson ’19, is forthcoming from Nightboat Books this April.
Writing alumna Kao Kalia Yang ’05 has published Where Rivers Part (Simon and Schuster, 2024), a memoir that centers her family’s escape from the genocidal attacks on the Hmong people, resulting from the U.S. Army’s involvement in Laos.
L’Air Du Temps (1985), a novella by Writing alumna Diane Josefowicz ’08, was published by Regal House Titles earlier this month.
Second-year writing student Ashley D. Escobar was selected by Eileen Myles as the 2024 Changes Book Prize winner for her poetry collection, Glib.
Leila Philip ’91, a writer, journalist, and poet, spent six years researching an underappreciated animal for her book Beaverland: How One Weird Rodent Made America.
