Alumni Updates
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News, Publications, and Awards
Lan Samantha Chang receives 2024 Arts and Letters Award from the Academy of Arts and Letters Jamel Brinkley is a finalist for the 2024 PEN/Faulkner Award Jamel Brinkley is shortlisted for the 2024 Aspen Words Literary Prize Yiyun Li is a finalist for the 2023/24 Story Prize Bennett Sims is a finalist for the 2023/24 Story Prize
Anita de Monte Laughs Last
Xóchitl González
March 5, 2024 | Fiction
36 Ways of Writing
a Vietnamese Poem
Nam Le
March 5, 2024 | Poetry
The Great Divide
Cristina Henríquez
March 5, 2024 | Fiction
Death Styles
Joyelle McSweeney
April 2, 2024 | Poetry
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Justin Torres wins the 2023 National Book Award for Fiction
National Book Foundation to present Lifetime Achievement Award to Rita Dove
Logan Hoffman-Smith a 2023 Lambda Literary Fellow in Fiction
Xochitl Gonzalez and Vauhini Vara announced 2023 Pulitzer Prize Finalists
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