Events
Nonfiction News
La Personalidad de los Pelícanos, a debut work of nonfiction–written in Spanish–from alumna Teresita Goyeneche Perezbardi ’20, is available now from Tusquets Colombia.
Coming next month from Common Consent Press is East Winds, a new memoir by alumna Rachel Rueckert ’21.
Assistant Professor Wes Enzinna has been awarded the prestigious Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant.
If you have never heard Professor Margo Jefferson (JN ‘71) speak aloud—and I would encourage you to try to do so as soon as possible—you should imagine that each word she utters appears in a different font.
Sprinting Through No Man’s Land, the debut work from narrative nonfiction alumnus Adin Dobkin ’20, has been named among the six “coups de cœur” in the run-up to the announcement of the 2022 American Library in Paris Book Award winner.
I’ve Had to Think Up a Way to Survive, a new memoir by alumna Lynn Melnick ’97, is forthcoming as part of the University of Texas Press’s American Music Series. The book will be released on October 4, 2022, and is available now for preorder through the University of Texas Press.
In her new book, Professor Margo Jefferson examines her life against a backdrop of American cultural influences.
When Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24th, Poetry Alumna Laima Vincė '94 started a project to amplify the voices of Ukrainian women who are currently experiencing the war firsthand.
Avid Reader Press will be publishing Butts: A Backstory by Alumna Heather Radke '19 on November 22, 2022. The book is now available for pre-order.
Current nonfiction student Wally Suphap recently placed first in the Fish Short Memoir Prize for his story, "Thirteen Ways of Interrogating An Incident."
White Rabbit Books recently published This Woman's Work, an essay collection that includes contributions from Professor and School of Journalism alumna Margo Jefferson and Professor Leslie Jamison.
Professor and School of Journalism alumna Margo Jefferson '71 was recently awarded a 2022 Donald Windham-Sandy M. Campbell Literature Prize (Windham-Campbell Prize), one of the literature field's most esteemed awards.