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  • Robyn Schiff and Jamel Brinkley, Rome Prize winners

    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 | Photo by Beowulf Sheehan

    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 Fellows: Eduardo C. Corral, Joyelle McSweeney, Jerald Walker, and Jay Hopler

    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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  • Anaïs Duplan and Nana Nkweti

    Anaïs Duplan and Nana Nkweti, 2022 Whiting Award Winners

    April 06, 2022

    Anaïs Duplan and Nana Nkweti have won 2022 Whiting Awards, Duplan in the category of Nonfiction and Nkweti in Fiction. Whiting Awards of $50,000 are given annually to writers in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama, based on accomplishment and promise. They are awarded with the goal of supporting writers early in their careers so they can focus on their work.

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  • Wong May

    Wong May wins 2022 Windham-Campbell Prize for Poetry

    April 06, 2022

    Wong May (MFA, 1968) has won a Windham-Campbell Prize in poetry.  From the 2022 Windham-Campell Prize winners announcement: "Spanning five decades, Wong May’s startlingly original poetry gleams with wit; her delicate but acute irony balances its lucid seriousness with a fizzing verbal lightness."

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