Iowa Writers’ Workshop graduate Hajar Hussaini one of ten recipients of the 2026 Whiting Award, prestigious literary award for emerging writers

Guggenheim Fellows this year include three Workshop alumni: Suji Kwock Kim in Poetry, and Lucy Ives and Bret Anthony Johnston in Fiction.

The prestigious prize is the largest annual cash award for English-language literary criticism and will be awarded to poet and Professor of Poetry at Queen Mary University of London, Andrea Brady.