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Recently The Sewanee Review announced the winners of its annual contest, awarding the prize in Fiction to alumna Becky Shirley '19.
James Cañón was born and raised in Colombia. His debut novel, Tales from the Town of Widows & Chronicles from the Land of Men, has been translated into eleven languages, published in over twenty countries, and was made into a film. It was also selected as one of the “Ten Best Books of the Year” by the American School Library Journal. James has been the recipient of numerous awards, including the Prix du Premier Meilleur Roman Étranger, and the Prix des Lecteurs de Vincennes. His short stories and essays have appeared in many literary journals and anthologies in the US, Mexico,…
Alumnus Grant Bergland '15 was recently awarded the Excellence in Filmmaking Award at the 2020 Anthem Film Festival for his short narrative film, Metrics.
Tiny Nightmares, a collection of horror-themed flash fiction stories co-edited by Adjunct Assistant Professor and Alumnus Lincoln Michel '07, was released by Catapult on October 13, 2020.
Alumna Amy Feltman '16 has signed a deal for her second novel, All the Things We Don't Talk About, with Grand Central Publishing. The book is set to release in 2022.
On Thursday, The Center for Fiction announced the winners of their 2020 NYC Emerging Writer Fellowship, among them alumnae Raluca Albu '18 and Sasha von Oldershausen '19.
Last week, the Poetry Society of America announced that alumnus Nathan Xavier Osorio '16 won a 2020 30 & Under Chapbook Fellowship.
Poetry Alumna Elizabeth Metzger ’15 pays tribute to former undergraduate writing student, 2020 Nobel Prize recipient, Louise Glück through a meditation on her poetry of transformation and the power of reading it in a global pandemic.
Healer of the Water Monster, a middle-grade chapter book by Fiction Alumnus Brian L. Young '19, will be released by Heartdrum, an imprint of HarperCollins, on May 11, 2021.
Columbia University’s Writing Program welcomed Maggie Nelson to its Nonfiction Dialogues series last month.
Theatre Alumnus Shayok Misha Chowdhury ’16, Writing Alumni Ricardo Alberto Maldonado ’08 and Ge Gao ’17, and Visual Arts Alumni Vivianne Chiu ’19, Alison Taylor ’05, Elif Uras ’03, and Writing Assistant Professor Shane McCrae were all named NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellows for 2020.
Early this morning, the Swedish Academy awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature to former undergraduate writing student Louise Glück.
