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News, Publications, and Awards

Garth Greenwell wins 2025 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Jenny George, Daniel Khalastchi and Jerald Walker are finalists for 2025 PEN Literary Awards Jamel Brinkley and Charles D'Ambrosio awarded Academy of Arts and Letters awards Jamel Brinkley wins 2024 Maya Angelou Book Award Juan Felipe Herrera awarded 2024 MacArthur Genius Grant Ruthvika Rao shortlisted for the Center For Fiction First Novel Prize Elizabeth Willis and m.s. RedCherries longlisted for the 2024 National Book Award in Poetry Tony Tulathimutte longlisted for the 2024 National Book Award in Fiction

Before the Mango Ripens, by Afabwaje Kurian

Before the Mango Ripens
Afabwaje Kurian
_{September 24, 2024 | Fiction}

The Goner School
Jessica Laser
_{September 27, 2024 | Poetry}

Small Rain
Garth Greenwell
_{September 3, 2024 | Fiction}

Terminal Maladies
Okwudili Nebeolisa

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Wednesday, December 3, 2025

Thursday! December 4 at 7 p.m. in Prairie Lights bookstore, Kevin Moffett will read from his longlisted National Book Award debut novel, 'Only Son', and be joined in conversation by Matthew Vollmer events.uiowa.edu/event/35190

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Monday, December 1, 2025

Flash fiction by Carol M. Quinn: "Clean" | via Lost Balloon https://lost-balloon.com/2025/11/12/clean-carol-m-quinn/

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Monday, December 1, 2025

Blog interview with Tim Brady: "History Happy Hour Episode 275: Saving the Jews of Denmark" https://historyhappyhour.com/blog/history-happy-hour-episode-275-saving-the-jews-of-denmark/

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Monday, December 1, 2025

Poetry by KB Kinkel, "LOSS [AMBIGUOUS]" | via 'The Paddock Review' [from the award-winning chapbook 'Blood Machine' by KB Kinkel “2025 Open Chapbook Competition winner” (Finishing Line Press)] https://paddockreview.com/2025/11/19/a-poem-by-kb-kinkel/

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Monday, December 1, 2025

Naomi Kim Eagleson on The Four Phases of Book Editing | on Talking Book Publishing podcast https://talkingbookpublishing.today/season-5-episode-10-naomi-eagleson/