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News, Publications, and Awards

Yiyun Li wins 2026 Pulitzer Prize in Memoir Scott Anderson a finalist for the 2026 Pulitzer Prize in History Hajar Hussaini wins 2026 Whiting Award in Poetry Garth Greenwell wins 2025 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Jenny George, Daniel Khalastchi and Jerald Walker are finalists for 2025 PEN Literary Awards Jamel Brinkley and Charles D'Ambrosio awarded Academy of Arts and Letters awards Jamel Brinkley wins 2024 Maya Angelou Book Award Juan Felipe Herrera awarded 2024 MacArthur Genius Grant Ruthvika Rao shortlisted for the Center For Fiction First Novel Prize Elizabeth Willis and m.s. RedCherries longlisted for the 2024 National Book Award in Poetry Tony Tulathimutte longlisted for the 2024 National Book Award in Fiction

Hard Times
Jeff Boyd
_{March 17, 2026 | Fiction}

Last Night in Brooklyn
Xochitl Gonzalez
_{April 21, 2026 | Fiction}

This Household of Earthly Nature
Cody-Rose Clevidence
_{September 15, 2025 | Poetry}

The Jills
Karen Parkman
_{February 10, 2026 | Fiction}

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Monday, July 13, 2026

Griffin Rockwell leading an online poetry workshop tonight, July 13, from 6:30-8pm CT - "Opening a Poem: The Power of the Title" https://iowacitypoetry.com/workshops/opening-a-poem-the-power-of-the-title

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Wednesday, July 8, 2026

Jeneé Skinner leading a short story workshop Thursdays online, July 9-July 30, 5:00 - 7:00pm CT https://www.porchtn.org/class/short-story-workshop

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Wednesday, July 8, 2026

Seth Harwood teaching an asynchronous online craft intensive: Show, Don’t Tell - Write scenes that pull your reader into the room https://writewithseth.com/show-dont-tell/

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Wednesday, July 8, 2026

Conversation between Kelsi Vanada and Emilio Jurado Naón | via 'The Massachusetts Review' https://themassachusettsreview.substack.com/p/conversation-between-kelsi-vanada

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Wednesday, July 8, 2026

Waitlisted workshop with Jeff Boyd in Brooklyn, NY July 13-August 17, Crafting Novels on Notecards: Techniques from Nabokov https://centerforfiction.org/group-workshop/crafting-novels-on-notecards-techniques-from-nabokov-with-jeff-boyd/

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Wednesday, July 8, 2026

Archive of Peter Orner's two-hour class last month about the ways that great writers bind fact and invention to create something new: the fictions we cherish. Five Things I've Learned About Messing with the Truth (In Order to Lie) https://myfivethings.com/class/peter-orner-messing-with-the-truth/