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Former Workshop Visiting Instructor, Rebecca Makkai wins Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction

April 12, 2019

Former visiting professor of fiction, Rebecca Makkai, wins 2018 L.A. Times Book Prize for fiction
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2019 Guggenheim Fellowships to Janine di Giovanni, Carmen Giménez Smith, Joanna Klink, Carmen Maria Machado, and Shane McCrae

April 09, 2019

Workshop alumni Janine di Giovanni (for general nonfiction), Carmen Giménez Smith, Joanna Klink, and Shane McCrae (for poetry), and Carmen Maria Machado (for fiction), were named Fellows this year by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
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Merritt Tierce a 2019 Whiting Award Winner

March 25, 2019

Workshop alumna Merritt Tierce (MFA, 2011) was one of the ten emerging writers to win a 2019 Whiting Award.
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Marilyn Chin and D.A. Powell win 2019 Literature Awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters

March 11, 2019

The American Academy of Arts and Letters announced today the names of 17 writers who will receive its 2019 Awards in Literature.
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Sandra Cisneros accepts PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature

February 26, 2019

Sandra Cisneros (MFA, 1978) received the 2019 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature at a February 26 ceremony in New York, NY.
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Lan Samantha Chang and Frances de Pontes Peebles

Wednesday, April 24, 2019 - 7:00pm

Dey House
Live from Prairie Lights: Chad Abushanab and Kam Hilliard

Wednesday, May 1, 2019 - 7:00pm

Prairie Lights Books
Live from Prairie Lights: Leslie Carol Roberts

Thursday, May 2, 2019 - 7:00pm

Prairie Lights Books

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