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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.
Award winning novelist and Writing alum Sigrid Nunez '75 is set to publish her first collection of short stories this summer with Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House.
Writing alum Dolapo Demuren '17 was selected as a winner of the 2025 Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship, a national award from America's oldest poetry organization which includes publication of his manuscript, American Love Sonnets.
Steppe, a novel translated from the Russian by Elina Alter '16, was published January 20, 2026 with Catapult Press.
Writing alums Karen Russell '06 and Henri Cole '82 have earned the distinction of finalists for the 2025 National Book Critics Circle Awards.
Acclaimed Fiction alum Emma Cline '13 will publish her third novel, Switzy, with Random House in September 2026.
