Writing News

News

Four Way Books will publish The Life Assignment by alumni Ricardo Alberto Maldonado ’08 this September.

This Is Why They Hate Us by recent alumnus Aaron H. Aceves ‘20 was acquired by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers for spring 2022 publication. This is Aceves’s debut novel.

Assistant Professor of poetry Shane McCrae recently published Sometimes I Never Suffered through FSG.

In September 2018, current student Raffi Joe Wartanian launched Letters for Peace (LFP), a project to publish letters between youth in Armenia and Azerbaijan.

Alumna Alexandra Kleeman ’12, who earlier this year was awarded the Berlin Prize, has now also received the equally prestigious and highly competitive Rome Prize, which offers fellows the opportunity to stay in Rome for four to seven months.

This week, it was announced that the novel The New Wilderness by alumna Diane Cook ’12 made the longlist for the 2020 Man Booker Prize.

Deep Delta Justice, debut book by alumnus Matthew van Meter ’16, is a nonfiction retelling of the critical court case in mid-20th century Louisiana that changed American law: Duncan v. Louisiana.

Recent alumna Jai Hamid Bashir ’20 is the winner of the Zócalo Public Square Poetry Prize, a prestigious award given to a poem that best evokes a connection to place in the US.

Once Upon a Time I Lived on Mars by alumna Kate Greene ’20 is a memoir about Greene’s time living in the Hawaii Space Exploration Analog and Simulation (HI-SEAS), a long-duration Mars exploration analog study run by the University of Hawaii and funded by NASA.

Nothing Can Hurt You, the recent debut novel by alumna Nicola Maye Goldberg ’18, was published to very positive reviews in June.

Recent alumnus Francisco González ’19 won the prestigious 2020 Gulf Coast Prize for his short story “Clean Teen.”

Slingshot by recent alumnus Cyrée Jarelle Johnson ’19 was a finalist for the prestigious Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP) Firecracker Award.

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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.