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The Animal Indoors by alumna Carly Inghram ’18 will be released by Autumn House Press on September 29, 2021.
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.
Associate Professor of Writing Deborah Paredez was recently awarded the 2020 Writers’ League of Texas Poetry Book Award for her collection, Year of the Dog (BOA Editions, 2020).
Cry Back My Sea (Knopf), a new collection of poetry by alumna and former faculty member, Sarah Arvio '83, is now available for pre-order and will be released on August 10, 2021.
Void, a debut collection by Poetry Alumna Alla Vilnyanskaya '18, is available for pre-order from Thirty West Publishing House. The collection is scheduled for release on August 27th, 2021.
Writing Alumnus Eduardo Martinez-Leyva '15 has been selected as a 2021-2022 Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center Fellow. With the help of this prestigious fellowship, Martinez-Leyva will live and work at the Fine Arts Work Center for a period of seven months beginning in October of 2021.
The Community of Literary Magazines and Presses recently announced its shortlist for the 2021 Firecracker Awards, given annually "to celebrate books and magazines that make a significant contribution to our literary culture and the publishers that strive to introduce important voices to readers far and wide."
Burnside Review recently announced that alumna and Adjunct Professor Meghan Maguire Dahn '14 won their 2021 Book Press Award for her book of poetry, Domain.
Poetry alumnus Christopher Bakken '92 has been granted a Fulbright award for the 2021-22 academic year.
Graduate students from Columbia’s School of the Arts and literary students from Chile’s Universidad Diego Portales (UDP) met in April in a virtual format to read each other’s translated poetry.
Yesterday, the 2021 Guggenheim fellowships were announced, and several Columbia Faculty and Alumni are among the recipients.
In a virtual ceremony last night, PEN America announced the winners of their 2021 Literary Awards, conferring the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction to English and Comparative Literature Professor Saidiya Hartman for her book, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments(W.W. Norton & Company, 2020).