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Anchor Books recently published The Best Short Stories 2021: The O. Henry Prize Winners, a twenty-story collection which includes “Brown Girls” by alumna Daphne Palasi Andreades ’19.
The National Book Foundation announced the longlist for the 2021 National Book Awards, nominating School of the Arts alumni Baba Badji ‘15 and Jakob Guanzon ‘17 and Journalism School alumna Paula Yoo (‘92 JRN) for the historic literary prize.
The World’s Lightest Motorcycle, a collection of poems by Yi Won and co-translated by alumna E.J. Koh ‘13 and Marci Calabretta Cancio-Bello, is now available from Zephyr Press.
Associate Professor of Writing Deborah Paredez was recently awarded the 2020 Writers’ League of Texas Poetry Book Award for her collection, Year of the Dog (BOA Editions, 2020).
It Doesn't Have to Be Awkward: Dealing with Relationships, Consent, and Other Hard-to-Talk-About Stuff (Clarion Books, 2021) by alumna Paulina Pinsky ’18 and her father, the renowned celebrity M.D. Dr. Drew Pinsky, is available for pre-order and will be released on September 21, 2021.
During last month's Norwegian Film Festival in Haugesund, the 2021 Arne Hestenes Journalism Award was presented to Writing alumna Ida Lødemel Tvedt '17. The award—which was founded in 1993 by Dagbladet journalist Arne Hestenes in collaboration with the Norwegian International Film Festival Haugesund and Institute for Journalism—is awarded to journalists for outstanding work in cultural criticism.
Adjunct Assistant Professor Julia Sanches and Writing alumna Tracy K. Smith '97 recently made the longlist for the 2021 National Translation Award. Sanches was longlisted for her prose translation of Natalia Borges Polesso's Amora: Stories (Amazon Crossing, 2020). Smith and co-translator Changtai Bi made the poetry longlist for My Name Will Grow Wide Like a Tree: Selected Poems (Graywolf Press, 2020) by Yi Lei.
Lambda Literary recently announced the winners of their 2021 Lammys, naming alumna Nancy Agabian '03 the winner of their 2021 Jeanne Córdova Prize for Lesbian/Queer Nonfiction.
Child in the Valley, a debut novel by alumnus Gordy Sauer '11, was released this week by Hub City Press to high praise from authors and reviewers.
Soon After First Light is a series where we talk craft, process, and pandemic with Columbia's accomplished writing professors.
The New York Foundation for the Arts recently announced the recipients of the NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship Program, a coveted award that has been administered annually for 36 years with support from the New York State Council on the Arts.
Cry Back My Sea (Knopf), a new collection of poetry by alumna and former faculty member, Sarah Arvio '83, is now available for pre-order and will be released on August 10, 2021.
