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2023-24 News & Recognitions

Forthcoming

2025: Patricia Smith — A volume of new and selected poems will be published by Scribner.

2024: Paul Muldoon — His 15th collection of poetry, Joy in Service on Rue Tagore, will be published in April.

2024: Idra NoveySoon and Wholly, a new collection of poems, will be published by Wesleyan University Press.

2024: Sheila Kohler — Her work to be published includes an essay in Salmagundi entitled “Truth and Fiction” and a story in The American Scholar called “Revenants.”

September 2024: Idra Novey — Her new book of poems, Soon and Wholly, will be published.

 

Spring 2024

April/May 2024: Sheila Kohler — Her essay is included in “On the Couch: Writers Aanalyze Sigmund Freud” edited by Andrew Blauner and published by Princeton University Press.

March 2024: Sheila Kohler — Her mystery story “Turnabout” will be published in Ellery Queen’s.

February 21, 2024: Ed Park & Yiyun Li — Finalists for the L.A. Times Book Prize are announced, including Wednesday’s Child: Stories by Li and Same Bed Different Dreams: A Novel by Park.

February 2024: Idra Novey — Her bestselling novel, Take What You Need, is available in paperback.

February 2024: Michael Dickman — His poetry collection, Pacific Power & Light, is published by Knopf.

February 1, 2024: Aleksandar Hemon — The World and All That It Holds is published in Germany as Die welt und alle was sie enthalt.

January 9, 2024: Yiyun Li — Her short story collection, Wednesday’s Child, is named a finalist for the 2024 Story Prize.

January 2024: Idra Novey — Her novel, Take What You Need, is longlisted for the 2024 Dublin Literary Award.

 

Fall 2023

December 29, 2023: Aleksandar Hemon — His musical alter ego, Cielo Hemon, releases an EP entitled Elsewheres.

December 2023: Ilya Kaminksy — His poetry appears in The Best American Poetry and Pushcart Prize anthologies.

December 2023: Patricia Smith — Unshuttered is featured on the New York Public Library’s list of Best Books of 2023.

December 2023: Yiyun Li — Her short story collection, Wednesday’s Child, is listed among the best books of the year by The New Yorker, New York Magazine’s Vulture, NPR, Kirkus Reviews, Esquire, Los Angeles Times, and Library Journal.

December 2023: Idra Novey — Her novel, Take What You Need, is named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and makes several best of the year book lists published by the Los Angeles Times, New Yorker, Guardian, and NPR.

December 2023: Ed Park — His novel, Same Bed Different Dreams, makes best of the year book lists in The New York Times, Kirkus Reviews, Washington Post, Publishers Weekly and Los Angeles Times.

December 2023: Susanna Moore — Her novel, The Lost Wife, is named among Wall Street Journal‘s 10 Best Books of 2023 and New Statesman’s Books of the Year.

November 28, 2023: Idra Novey — Take What You Need is longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize.

November 27, 2023: Joyce Carol Oates — “Personal Statement,” a profile of Oates by Rachel Aviv, appears in the November 27 issue of The New Yorker.

November 2023: Ilya Kaminksy — BBC airs “To Odesa,” a series of his new essays about returning to Odesa, Ukraine, during the war.

November 2023: Yiyun Li — The Royal Society of Literature names Li among its 2023 International Writers, a life-long award that recognizes the contribution of writers across the globe to literature.

November 7, 2023: Ed Park — His novel, Same Bed Different Dreams, is published by Penguin Random House.

Winter 2023: Lynn Melnick — Her book, Refusenik, was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award.

October 10, 2023: Jenny McPhee – Her new translation of Lies and Sorcery by Elsa Morante is published by New York Review Books.

October 3, 2023: Katie Farris — Her collection, Standing in the Forest of Being Alive, is shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize.

September 27, 2023: Katie Farris is appointed associate professor of creative writing in the Lewis Center for the Arts.

September 5, 2023: Yiyun Li —  Her story collection, Wednesday’s Child, is published by FSG in the US and 4th Estate/Harper Collins in the UK.

September 5, 2023: Joyce Carol Oates — She is the editor of the collection A Darker Shade of Noir: New Stories of Body Horror by Women Writers, published by Akashic Books.

September 2023: Sheila Kohler — Her short story, “Sidney,” is included in the Akashic anthology A Deeper Shade of Noir, edited by Joyce Carol Oates. Her story “Revenants” appears in Fiction magazine.

Fall 2023: Ilya Kaminksy — His poetry is awarded Prix Alain Bosquet from Gallimard in France, is honored with Premio Laudomia Bonanni in Italy, and is shortlisted for 2023 Kulturhuset Stadsteaterns Internationella Litteraturpris in Sweden. In Ukraine, Kaminksy is awarded The Boris Dereviyanko “Ludi Dela” Civic Service award for his work in support of humanities during the war in the city of Odesa.

Fall 2023: Aleksandar Hemon — The World and All That It Holds is published in Norway, Italy and France, where it receives the 2023 Grand Prix de Litterature Americaine. His book, This Does Not Belong to You, is published in Slovenia.

 

Summer 2023

August 3, 2023: Idra Novey — Granta‘s online edition publishes her short story, “Conversations with My Father.”

August 2023: Idra Novey — The London Magazine publishes an excerpt from her novel, Take What You Need.

August 2023: Lynn Melnick — Her book, I’ve Had to Think Up a Way to Survive: On Trauma, Persistence, and Dolly Parton, is published in paperback from Spiegel & Grau.

July 2023: Patricia Smith is the recipient of the 2023 Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry.

June 2023: Joyce Carol Oates receives the 2023 Taobuk Taormina International Book Festival Award (Sicily).

Summer 2023: A. M. Homes — Her novel The Unfolding is longlisted for the 2023 Mark Twain American Voice Prize.

 


2022-23 News & Recognitions

Spring 2023

Spring 2023: Joyce Carol Oates publishes two new fiction works: 48 Clues into the Disappearance of My Sister (Mysterious Press, March 2023) and Zero-Sum: Short Stories (Knopf).

Spring 2023: Lynn Melnick — Her book, Refusenik, was the winner of the Julie Suk Award.

May 8, 2023: Yiyun Li — Princeton University names Li a recipient of the Howard T. Behrman Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Humanities.

May 2, 2023: Marilyn Chin — Her new book of poems, SAGE, is published by W.W. Norton.

April 2023: Katie Farris — Her first book of poetry, Standing in the Forest of Being Alive, is published by Alice James Books.

April 19, 2o23: Ilya Kaminksy — He is named a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

April 15, 2023: Daphne Kalotay — Her story collection, The Archivists, is published by TriQuarterly Books.

April 4, 2023: Susanna Moore — Her novel, The Lost Wife, which received a starred Kirkus review, is published by Knopf.

April 4, 2023: Yiyun Li— The Book of Goose is announced winner of the 2023 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.

March 14, 2023: Idra Novey — Her novel, Take What You Need, is published by Viking/Penguin Random House.

March 7, 2023: Yiyun Li— The Book of Goose is named a finalist for the 2023 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, America’s most prestigious peer-juried literary prize.

March 7, 2023: Idra Novey — CBS New York’s Book Club names Idra Novey’s new novel, Take What You Need, among three “FicPicks” selected for audience voting through March 12.

February 21, 2023 — Yiyun Li elected to American Academy of Arts and Letters.

February 15, 2023: Patricia Smith — Her poetry book, Unshuttered, a collection of dramatic monologues accompanied by 19th-century photos of African Americans, is published by Northwestern University Press.

February 2, 2023: Yiyun Li — The Book of Goose is longlisted for the 2023 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.

January 24, 2023: Aleksandar Hemon — His novel, The World and All That It Holds, is published by Macmillan.

January 5, 2023: Katie Farris — Three original poems are published by The Rumpus.

January 2023: Idra Novey — Her new novel, Take What You Need, receives a starred Kirkus review and is named a most anticipated book of 2023 by Vulture, Today and elsewhere.

January 2023: Kathleen Ossip — Her poem “The Facts” is selected for The Best American Poetry 2023.

Winter 2023: Daphne Kalotay — Her short story “A Guide to Lesser Divinities” is published in the Winter 2023 (#60) issue of Harvard Review.

Winter 2023: Sheila Kohler — Her novel Dreaming for Freud is published in Serbian (March). Her book Cracks, which was made into a film with Eva Green, is reissued with Open Road (January).

 

Fall 2022

December 2022: Yiyun LiThe Book of Goose is featured as a Best Book of 2022 with many publications, including The New Yorker, Financial Times, Time Magazine, Guardian, the Globe and Mail, Slate, LitHub, Book Page, LA Times, and elsewhere.

November 2022: Paul Muldoon — His new book, The Castle of Perseverance (with watercolors by Philip Pearlstein), is published by Enitharmon Press.

October 2022: Yiyun Li — The Book of Goose is selected for the longlist for the 2023 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction.

September 20, 2022: Yiyun Li — Her fifth novel, The Book of Goose, is published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

September 6, 2022: A. M. Homes — Her latest novel, The Unfolding, is published by Viking-Random House.

Fall 2022: Daphne Kalotay is awarded a 2023 Art & Science Residency from the Celia & Wally Gilbert Artist-in-Residence Program at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.

Fall 2022: Idra Novey — Her short story “The Glacier” won a 2022 Pushcart Prize and is included in the next Pushcart Prize anthology.

Fall 2022: Sheila Kohler — Her short story, “Sydney,” is included in the Akashic anthology A Darker Shade of Noir: Stories of Body Horror by Women Writers, edited by Joyce Carol Oates.

Fall 2022: Sheila Kohler — Her essay on Freud as a fiction writer is forthcoming in “On the Couch.”

 

Summer 2022

Summer 2022: Kirstin Valdez Quade — Her novel, The Five Wounds, represents New Mexico at the Library of Congress’ National Book Festival.

June 2022Joyce Carol Oates — Her collection of stories, Extenuating Circumstances: Selected Stories, is published by Mysterious Press.

June 2022: Paul Muldoon — His pamphlet of new poems, Sure Thing, is published by The Lifeboat Press.

 


2021-22 News & Recognitions

Spring 2022

May 22, 2022: Idra Novey —Her piece about poet-novelists and Mieko Kawakam, “Each Sentence Is One You Can Feel,” is published in The Atlantic.

May/June 2022: Sheila Kohler — Her story, “A Secret Country,” is published in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine.

May 17, 2022: Jhumpa Lahiri — Her book Translating Myself and Others will be published by Princeton University Press. The collection will include several essays, both previously unpublished and previously published, that reflect on Lahiri’s experiences with translation, self-translation, and writing across languages.

May 16, 2022: Yiyun Li — PEN/Faulkner Foundation selects Li as the winner of the 2022 PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story.

April 28, 2022: Yiyun Li and Patricia Smith — Li and Smith elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

April 13, 2022: Patricia Smith — Her poem, “Still Wielding My Useless Shovel,” is published in the Spring 2022 issue of Ploughshares.

March 15, 2022: Kirstin Valdez Quade — Her novel, The Five Wounds, is shortlisted for the Lambda Literary Award in Lesbian Fiction.

March 11, 2022: Kirstin Valdez Quade — Her novel, The Five Wounds, won the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

March 5, 2022: A.M. HomesRise, the opera that Homes co-wrote with composer and instrumentalist Kamala Sankaram, opens at the Kennedy Center. Bringing to life the often forgotten 1921 Portrait Monument featuring Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Susan B. Anthony, and one face left uncarved, Sankaram and Homes give a voice to those whose stories have been left out of history.

February 25, 2022: Patricia Smith — Poets.org chose one of Smith’s poems, “The Sun, Mad Envious, Just Wants the Moon,” as its Poem-of-the-Day on Friday, Feb. 25.

February 25, 2022: Kirstin Valdez Quade — Her novel, The Five Wounds, is announced a finalist for the Aspen Words Prize.

January 26, 2022: Kirstin Valdez Quade — Her novel, The Five Wounds, is named a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel.

Spring 2022: Sheila Kohler — Her story, “The Constancy of Things,” is published in The American Scholar.

Spring 2022: Patricia Smith — She wins the 2022 Golden Rose, one of America’s oldest literary prizes, from the New England Poetry Club. The ceremony is held on July 17, 2022, at the Longfellow House-Washington’s Headquarters, a National Historic Site in Cambridge, MA.

 

Fall 2021

Fall 2021: Sheila Kohler – Her short story, “The Third Party,” is published in Salmagundi.

Fall 2021: Yiyun Li — Her story, “The Buttercup Mousetrap,” is published in Zoetrope: All-Story.

Fall 2021: Sheila Kohler — Her novel, Dreaming for Freud, is sold to Arete Publishing House in Serbia.

December 2021: Kirstin Valdez Quade — Her debut novel, The Five Wounds, is shortlisted for the 2022 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction.

December 2021: Kirstin Valdez Quade — The Five Wounds is longlisted for the 2022 PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel.

December 2021: Kirstin Valdez Quade — Media outlets including NPR, Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, Goodreads, and Booklist add her novel, The Five Wounds, to their best book lists for 2021.

December 8, 2021: Kirstin Valdez Quade — She is announced winner of The Center for Fiction 2021 First Novel Prize for The Five Wounds.

December 6, 2021: Rowan Ricardo Phillips — His collection Living Weapon is named among The Guardian‘s “Best Poetry Books of 2021.”

December 2021: Kathleen Ossip — Her book of poems, July, is named a Best Book of 2021 by NPR.

December 2021: Aleksandar Hemon — The film, The Matrix: Resurrection (directed by Lana Wachowski), for which he co-wrote the script, is slated for release. It premieres in San Francisco on Dec. 18; wide release is Dec. 22, 2021.

November 16, 2021: Paul Muldoon — His fourteenth collection of poems, Howdie-Skelp, is published by Farrar Straus & Giroux.

November 10, 2021: Kirstin Valdez Quade — Her novel, The Five Wounds, is longlisted for the 2022 Aspen Words Literary Prize.

November 10, 2021: Sheila Kohler — Her novel, Open Secrets, is longlisted for the 2022 Joyce Carol Oates Prize with the New Literary Project.

November 9, 2021: Jhumpa LahiriTrust, an English translation of the novel Confidenza by Domenico Starnone, is published by Europa Editions in the USA and UK.

November 9, 2021: Nicole Sealey — She wins the inaugural Granum Foundation Prize for her book-length poem The Ferguson Report: An Erasure.

November 8, 2021: Yiyun Li —  “Hello, Goodbye,” is published in The New Yorker.

November 4, 2021: Nicole Sealey — She is announced the winner of a 2021 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem: ‘Pages 22-29, An excerpt from The Ferguson Report: An Erasure’.

November 2, 2021: Paul Muldoon — Beatles star Paul McCartney’s autobiography, The Lyrics — edited by Muldoon — is published in the US by W.W. Norton/Liveright.

October 2021: Joyce Carol Oates — Her collection of stories, The Ruins of Contracoeur, is published in Ireland.

September 16, 2021: Rowan Ricardo Phillips — His poem, “November Nocturne” from his book of poems, Living Weapon, is included in the Forward Book of Poetry 2022, publishing this week in the UK. The anthology brings together the best new work published in the UK and Ireland, as chosen by the jury of the annual Forward Prizes; Phillips’ poem was selected as “Highly Commended” in the 2021 Forward Prizes for Poetry.

September 14, 2021: Joyce Carol Oates — Her story, “Parole Hearing,” is reprinted in The Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2021, edited by Lee Child.

September 9-13, 2021: Susanna Styron — Streaming release of her feature documentary, 9/12: From Chaos to Community, in honor of the 20th anniversary of 9/11, is available at 912film.com.

September 2021: Yiyun Li — Her book, Tolstoy Together: 85 Days of War and Peace with Yiyun Li, is published.

September 2021: Patricia Smith — She is named recipient of the 2021 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize.

 


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