Fiction News & Events

Writing alum Anika Jade Levy '23 has published her debut novel, Flat Earth, earlier this month with Catapult Books.

Writing alum Aaron H. Aceves '20 was awarded the 2025 Judith A. Markowitz Award for an Exceptional New LGBTQ Writer from Lambda Literary, a non-profit dedicated to amplifying LGBTQ+ stories for over thirty-five years.

Fiction alum Karen Russell '06 and Poetry alum Gabrielle Calvocoressi '00 have made the shortlist for the 2025 National Book Award.

Sister Creatures, a debut novel by Writing alum Laura Venita Green '22, will be published October 7, 2025 from Unnamed Press. 

In Vera, or Faith, the School of the Arts Writing professor portrays a crumbling modern American family.

Fiction alum Emily Hunt Kivel '20 published her debut novel, Dwelling, with Farrar, Straus and Giroux on August 5, 2025.

Fiction alum Amber Medland '15, author of the novel Wild Pets, has published her second book, nonfiction investigation Attention Seeker: The Truth about ADHD, with Dialogue Books.

By Karen Russell ’06SOA (Alfred A. Knopf).

By Jemimah Wei ’22SOA (Doubleday).

Writing alum Jemimah Weh ’22 has been named one of the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35.

Writing alum Kimberly King Parsons '10 has won the 2025 Ken Kesey Award for Fiction at the Oregon Book Awards for her debut novel We Were the Universe (Knopf, 2024).

Jennifer Sears ’13 has won the 2025 John Simmons Short Fiction Award for her short story collection What Mennonite Girls are Good For, which will be published by the University of Iowa Press this fall.