Summer 2022
Summer 2022: Kirstin Valdez Quade — Her novel, The Five Wounds, represents New Mexico at the Library of Congress’ National Book Festival.
June 2022: Joyce 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.
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 The collection will include several essays, both previously unpublished and previously published, that reflect on Lahiri’s experiences with translation, self-translation, and writing across languages.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. Homes — Rise, 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 Lahiri — Trust, 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. 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.
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.