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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.
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.
Nonfiction student Ye Odelia Lu and Fiction student Lin King are contributors to the Asian American Writers' Workshop's Queer Time: A Special Notebook of Taiwanese Tongzhi Literature, which will launch on July 26, 2021.
Soon After First Light is a series where we talk craft, process, and pandemic with Columbia's accomplished writing professors.
Writing alumnus Dennard Dayle ’17 recently sold his debut book, Everything Abridged, at auction to Overlook Press. The collection of stories will be released in Spring 2022.
Writing alumna Catherine Lacey '10 recently won the 2021 NYPL Young Lions Award for her novel, Pew. This prestigious award is given annually to an American writer aged 35 or younger for an outstanding novel or collection of short stories, and the award carries a monetary prize of $10,000. This year's judges were authors Hernan Diaz and Emma Straub, and critic Yahdon Israel.
On Wednesday, the Copyright Agency Cultural Fund of Australia and award trustee Perpetual announced the shortlist for this year's Miles Franklin Literary Award. Writing alumna Madeleine Watts '19 is among the six Australian authors to be chosen as finalists for this prestigious award.
Alumnus Ben Rosenthal '18 recently published his debut collection of short stories, S-Bahn 5:32, through Adelaide Books.
Read her book to find out what to do if your mother is accused of being a sorceress.
Second-year Writing student Nicole Saldarriaga was recently shortlisted for the 2021 Master's Review Winters Short Story Award for New Writers for her story, “Araucaria.”
Alumna Sara Davis '12 recently published her debut novel, The Scapegoat (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux) and will read from the highly acclaimed work, as well as chat about the book with Adjunct Professor Hilary Leichter '12, at a virtual event for Point Reyes Books on May 25, 2021.
Alumna Jean Kyoung Frazier '18 has joined the writing team for a new Netflix dramedy called Beef, created by Lee Sung Jin (Dave, Tuca & Bertie).