Summer 2019
Summer 2019: Joyce Carol Oates — “Mr. Stickum” (fiction) appears in the new, reconstituted and “woke” Playboy.
August 27, 2019: Sheila Kohler — Her story, “Cracks,” is published online in Paris Review Redux.
July 2019: Kirstin Valdez Quade — She reads John L’Heureux’s story, “The Long, Black Line,” for The New Yorker podcast. Listen to the podcast
July 2019: Daphne Kalotay — Her novel Blue Hours (TriQuarterly Books) is published.
June 2019: Aleksandar Hemon — As a naturalized U.S. citizen, he is recognized among ‘Great Immigrants’ for his contributions to American society by Carnegie Corporation of New York.
Summer 2019: Joyce Carol Oates —The Triumph of the Spider Monkey (novella) is reprinted by Hard Case Crime with a new cover by iconic pulp fiction artist Robert McGinnis.
Summer 2019: Sheila Kohler — Her story, “The Cure,” is published in Speak Magazine, Issue 3.
Spring 2019
Spring 2019: Sheila Kohler — Her essay titled “Dostoevsky” is published in The Antioch Review, Vol. 77
Spring 2019: Daphne Kalotay — Her story “Providence” is published in Missouri Review.
May 2019: Tracy K. Smith — She receives the 2019 Harvard Arts Medal, awarded to recognize excellence and demonstrated achievement in the arts by a Harvard or Radcliffe alumnus/a or faculty member.
May 2019: Simon Armitage — During his time as Holmes Visiting Professor of Creative Writing, Armitage is named the United Kingdom’s next Poet Laureate.
May/June 2019: Sheila Kohler — Her story, “The Darling,” published in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine
March 19, 2019: Michael Dickman — His collection of poems, Days & Days, is published by Penguin Random House.
March 2019: Yiyun Li — Her story, “All Will Be Well,” appears in The New Yorker. Listen to Li read the story or read online at The New Yorker
March 2019: Rowan Ricardo Phillips — He wins the 2019 PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing for The Circuit, his nonfiction sports narrative on the 2017 men’s professional tennis season.
February 2019: Joyce Carol Oates — She wins the 2019 Jerusalem Prize, which honors writers whose work evokes “The Freedom of the Individual in Society,” by Jerusalem International Book Forum.
February 2019: Erika L. Sanchez — She receives a 2019 Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.
February 2019: Yiyun Li — Her novel, Where reasons End, is published by Random House (North America) and Hamish Hamilton (UK and Commonwealth).
Fall 2018
December 2018: Simon Armitage — During his time as Holmes Visiting Professor of Creative Writing, Armitage is awarded the 2018 Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry.
December 2018: Jhumpa Lahiri — Her English translation of Trick by Domenico Starnone makes 2019 PEN American Literary Awards Longlist for Translation.
December 2018: Rowan Ricardo Phillips — His work of nonfiction, The Circuit: A Tennis Odyssey, makes 2019 PEN American Literary Awards Longlist for Literary Sports Writing.
December 2018: Jenny Xie — Her poetry collection, Eye Level, makes 2019 PEN American Literary Awards Longlist for Open Book Award.
December 2018: Tracy K. Smith — Her collection, Wade in the Water, included on The New York Times‘ Best Poetry of 2018 annual list.
November 6, 2018: Idra Novey — Her novel, Those Who Knew, is published by Viking/Random House. The book is chosen as a November 2018 Indie Next Paperback Pick by the American Booksellers Association.
November 2018: Yiyun Li— Her memoir, Dear Friend from My Life I Write to you in Your Life, is a finalist for Le Prix Medicis, France.
November 2018: Tracy K. Smith — Her collection, Wade in the Water, included on The New York Times‘ 100 Notable Books of 2018 list.
October 1, 2018: Yiyun Li — Her story, “When We Were Happy We Had Other Names,” appears in The New Yorker. Listen to Li read the story or read online at The New Yorker
September 2018: Terrance Hayes — His collection, American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin, included on longlist for National Book Award in Poetry.
September 2018: Jenny Xie — Her collection, Eye Level, included on longlist for National Book Award in Poetry.
September 2018: Jhumpa Lahiri — Her English translation of Trick by Domenico Starnone included on longlist for National Book Award in Translated Literature.
Summer 2018
July 2018: Phil Klay — Awarded the 2018 George W. Hunt, S.J., Prize for Journalism, Arts & Letters (for outstanding work in the category Cultural & Historical Criticism by Saint Thomas More: The Catholic Chapel & Center at Yale University and the directors of America Media) for his short story collection, Redeployment.
June 2018: A. M. Homes — Penguin Random House publishes her third short story collection, Days of Awe.
Summer 2018: Sheila Kohler — Her story, “Monsieur André,” is published in Fiction no. 63