June, 2019

• Librarian of Congress Names Joy Harjo the Nation's 23rd Poet Laureate

• 'Idaho' by Emily Ruskovich wins the 2019 International DUBLIN Literary Award

• John Edgar Wideman wins 2019 PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story

April, 2019

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

• 2019 Guggenheim Fellowships to Janine di Giovanni, Carmen Giménez Smith, Joanna Klink, Carmen Maria Machado, and Shane McCrae

March, 2019

• Merritt Tierce a 2019 Whiting Award Winner

• Marilyn Chin and D.A. Powell win 2019 Literature Awards from the American Academy of Arts and Letters

February, 2019

• Jade Jones Awarded PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers

• Sandra Cisneros accepts PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature

• Four Writers’ Workshop Alums win Writers Guild “Original Long Form” Award for 'Castle Rock'