Writing News

News

Writing alumnus Cyrée Jarelle Johnson ’19 has been awarded the prestigious James Laughlin Award for his second poetry collection, Watchnight (Nightboat Books, 2024).

Writing Alumna Jenessa Abrams ’17 (SPS ’19) has been awarded a prestigious National Book Critics Circle Emerging Critics Fellowship. 

Salesman之死, a new play by playwright and  Adjunct Associate Professor of Writing Jeremy Tiang, will premiere in October at Off-Broadway mainstay Connelly Theater, presented by ​​Yangtze Rep in association with Gung Ho Projects and directed by Obie-Award-winning director, Michael Leibenluft.

Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind, a novel by Writing alumna Molly McGhee ’19, will be published by Astra House on October 17, 2023. 

Wound—an autobiographical novel by Olga Vasyakina translated from the Russian by Writing alumna Elina Alter ’16—was recently published by Catapult.

Professor Deborah Paredez lists her favorite poets just in time for Hispanic Heritage Month.

Writing alumnus E.J. McAdams ’98 published LAST, a collection of poetry, with BlazeVOX last month. 

From powerful memoir to page-turning fiction.

"Loot, the ambitious third novel from Tania James ’06, charts the sprawling fictional journey of an actual historical artifact across two centuries (eighteenth and nineteenth), eight different narrative perspectives (from an Indian sultan to a British seaman), and four geographic backdrops (India, the open seas, France, and England)."

The Goblin Twins, a children’s book by adjunct faculty member and Writing alumna Frances Cha ’11, was published last month by Crown Books for Young Readers (Penguin Random House).

House Of The Dead, a chapbook by second-year Writing student Mari Yoo, is available now from Bottle Cap Press.

Writing alumna Cat Bohannon ’09 (GSAS ’22, '13, '10) is slated to publish her new book, Eve: How The Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Evolution, on October 3, 2023 with Knopf.

Student Series

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From Here to There

by Lisa Cochran

A series in conversation with recent Writing alumni whose books are hitting the shelves, where we reflect on what the writing life looks like on the other side.

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This Is Who We Are

by Carlos Barragán

A series featuring Columbia School of the Arts’ professors, covering careers, pedagogy, and art-making.

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Past Lives

by Jessie Shohfi

A series featuring Columbia writers who began their professional lives on different career paths.