Writing News

News

My Flawless Life, the fifth young adult novel from alumna Yvonne Woon ’10 (CC ’06), is out now from Katherine Tegen Books. 

Here, we talk to Fiction student Emily Johnson about the joys of phone banking, grassroots literary readings, and the alchemy of good fiction.

Second-year Nonfiction student Wally Suphap has been awarded this year’s Open City Fellowship from the Asian American Writers’ Workshop.

When Wendy S. Walters, Associate Professor of Writing and Director of Nonfiction, first encountered Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux’s Why Born Enslaved! in the Met’s European Sculpture Court, she wondered why—even post-abolition—the woman is still depicted as enslaved.

Alumna Sasha Wolff ’17 is a finalist for the St. Lawrence Book Award for her manuscript, The Boy Bandit

The swailing, a debut poetry collection from alumnus Patrick James Errington ’15, will be released this spring from McGill-Queen's University Press.

Welcome Me to the Kingdom, a debut story collection by alumnus Mai Nardone ’13, is out now from Random House. 

Writing Professor and Director of Literary Translation Susan Bernofsky has been awarded an honorary professorship at the Freie Universität Berlin for Summer 2023. 

Imaginary Order, a debut novel from first-year Fiction student Shifra Steinberg, is out now from Austin Macauley Publishers. 

Directions to Myself: A Memoir of Four Years by Associate Professor Heidi Julavits ’96 will be published by Hogarth this summer.

Here, we talk to Adjunct Assistant Professor Melissa Smith about finding your path, tech-savviness, and the recent evolution of arts journalism. 

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.