Forbes
Joy Harjo on being named artist-in-residence at The New Bob Dylan Center: “I remember being caught by his voice and his lyrics.”
Newswires
UNESCO-Sharjah Prize for Arab Culture awarded to poet Dunya Mikhail.
Miami-Herald
He was President Barack Obama’s inaugural poet. Now, Richard Blanco is Miami-Dade’s first poet laureate.
Anisfield Wolf
Percival Everett wins in fiction for the Cleveland Foundation’s 87th Annual Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards.
LA Times Book Prize Finalists
Mai Der Vang (Yellow Rain) and Saïd Sayrafiezadeh (American Estrangement) named among finalists for the 2022 LA Times Book Prize.
2022 Pen America Literary Awards
Congratulations to all the finalists including our very own Torrey Peters who took home the win for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel.
LA Times
Congrats to the 2021 NBCCA nominees, especially: Rajiv Mohabir, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, Torrey Peters, Percival Everett, Cornelius Eady!
Poet Laureate
Congratulations to Airea D. Matthews who was named Philadelphia’s Poet Laureate!
PEN America
BFA authors included on the PEN America 2021 longlists: Rajiv Mohabir, Torrey Peters, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, Percival Everett, Mai […]