March, 2020

• Willa Richards Awarded PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers

• Yiyun Li Awarded the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award

February, 2020

• Yaa Gyasi receives Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise in Literature and $50,000 cash prize

January, 2020

• Six Workshop Alumni Awarded 2020 NEA Literature Fellowships

December, 2019

• New Workshop Alumni Books in 2019

October, 2019

• Brent Hayes Edwards receives 2019 Truman Capote Award

July, 2019

• Workshop alumnus, D.B. Weiss' co-created television adaptation of 'Game of Thrones' nominated in a record-32 Emmy Award categories

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