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Writers' Workshop Alumni

News, Publications, and Awards

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

Before the Mango Ripens
Afabwaje Kurian
_{September 24, 2024 | Fiction}

The Goner School
Jessica Laser
_{September 27, 2024 | Poetry}

Small Rain
Garth Greenwell
_{September 3, 2024 | Fiction}

Terminal Maladies
Okwudili Nebeolisa

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Monday, March 9, 2026

In memory of Workshop graduate, Jeremy Kryt, who passed away last October https://everloved.com/life-of/jeremy-kryt/obituary/

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Monday, March 9, 2026

Short fiction by Gary Duehr, "Emergency," via 'The Write Launch' https://thewritelaunch.com/2026/02/emergency/

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Monday, March 9, 2026

Fiction by Jeneé Skinner, "The Death Spa," from the Fall 2025 issue of 'Shenandoah' https://www.shenandoahliterary.org/volume-75-number-1/the-death-spa/

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Monday, March 9, 2026

Fiction by Joel Worford, "Don't Touch," in 'Blackbird' online journal blackbird.vcu.edu/dont-touch/ https://blackbird.vcu.edu/dont-touch/

"A Glutton for Duration" Devon Walker-Figueroa discusses eros, eternity, and her new collection ‘Lazarus Species’ with LARB’s poetry editor Elizabeth Metzger https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/devon-walker-figueroa-lazarus-species-interview-elizabeth-metzger/

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Monday, March 9, 2026

Poetry by Rebecca Boyle, "I Try Not to Die Every Chance I Get" | 'New Ohio Review' https://newohioreview.org/2026/02/24/i-try-not-to-die-every-chance-i-get/