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Mother Tongue, a new memoir from Writing alum Sara Nović '14, is set to hit shelves on May 5, 2026. The book, which being published by Penguin Random House, tracks Nović’s path out of the hearing world and into the deaf community—and seeks to understand what it means to raise children who straddle both worlds.
Gringas, the debut novel fromFiction alum Manola Gonzalez Rosillo '19 has sold her debut novel, Gringas, to Bloomsbury for publication in 2028.
Harrison Hill '19 has recently published his debut work of nonfiction, The Oracle’s Daughter: The Rise and Fall of an American Cult with Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster.
Writing alums Alice Evelyn Yang '22 and Hannah Lillith Assadi '13—who is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Writing—are on the longlist for the 2026 Women Prize for Fiction for their novels A Beast Slinks Towards Beijing (William Morrow, 2026) and Paradiso 17 (Knopf, 2026), respectively.
Poetry alum Jaia Hamid Bashir '20 published her debut collection of poetry, The Afterlife of Sweetness, this past February after the book received the Charles B. Wheeler Prize in 2024.
Writing alum Margrét Ann Thors '16 will publish her debut novel, Freyja, with Spiegel and Grau on August 4, 2026.
Anniversary, a dystopian political thriller produced by Writing alum Steve Schwartz '73, makes its streaming debut on Hulu this week, March 13.
Writing alum Elettra Pauletto '17 recently published a translation of Marzio F. Mian’s award-winning book of nonfiction, Volga Blues, with W.W. Norton & Company.
Carlie Hoffman '19 has been awarded the Mid Atlantic Individual Artist Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.
Joining faculty, students, and friends in the audience of the Lenfest Center for the Arts the evening of February 12, were several ghosts. Read more about this recent event featuring poet Forrest Gander.
From Wednesday, March 4 to Saturday, March 7, Baltimore, MD will be transformed into the epicenter of the US literary scene for the 2026 AWP Conference & Bookfair and many Columbia writers will be in attendance.
