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Romeo Oriogun wins Nigeria Prize For Literature

October 15, 2022

Romeo Oriogun (MFA '21) has won the Nigeria Prize For Literature for his second collection, Nomad (Griots Lounge Publishing Nigeria, 2021).
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Kay Ryan and Heather Clark Receive the 2021 and 2022 Truman Capote Awards

September 02, 2022

Former U.S. Poet Laureate Kay Ryan won the 2021 Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism in Memory of Newton Arvin for her book, Synthesizing Gravity: Selected Prose, released by Grove Press in 2021, and Heather Clark won the 2022 award for her book Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath, released by Alfred A. Knopf in 2020.
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Jamel Brinkley and Robyn Schiff Win Rome Prizes in Literature

April 25, 2022

Writers’ Workshop faculty member and alumnus, novelist Jamel Brinkley (MFA 2015) and Emory University faculty member and Workshop alumnus, poet Robyn Schiff (MFA 1999) have been awarded 2022-2023 Rome Prizes in Literature. Schiff will receive the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize for Literature, a gift of the Drue Heinz Trust.
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Brandon Taylor wins Story Prize for 'Filthy Animals'

April 14, 2022

Workshop alumnus Brandon Taylor (MFA, 2019) was awarded the 2022 Story Prize last night, for his collection, Filthy Animals (Riverhead Books) . The prize was announced at a private event that was broadcast live, in a ceremony with authors Lily King for Five Tuesdays in Winter (Grove Press) and J. Robert Lennon for Think of Me (Graywolf Press), whose work was also honored.
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2022 Guggenheim Fellowships Awarded to Jerald Walker, Joyelle McSweeney, Jay Hopler, and Eduardo C. Corral

April 07, 2022

Workshop alumni Joyelle McSweeney, Jay Hopler, and Eduardo C. Corral, and Jerald Walker are among 180 artists, writers, scholars and scientists awarded fellowships this year from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. McSweeney, Hopler and Corral are recognized in the field of poetry; and Walker in the field of General Nonfiction.
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Events

DK Nnuro book reading: "What Napoleon Could Not Do"

Wednesday, February 8, 2023 - 7:00pm

Prairie Lights Books
Live from Prairie Lights | Caryl Pagel and Erika Meitner

Friday, February 17, 2023 - 7:00pm

Prairie Lights Books
A Reading with Ida Beam Visiting Lecturer, Jericho Brown

Thursday, February 23, 2023 - 8:00pm

Dey House

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