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MFA Alum Rita Bullwinkel (’16) Celebrates Success of Latest Novel ‘Headshot’
Sep. 6, 2024—Congratulations to Vanderbilt MFA Rita Bullwinkel (’16), whose novel is receiving national attention and acclaim. An unexpected tragedy at a community pool. A family’s unrelenting expectation of victory. The desire to gain or lose control; to make time speed up or stop; to be frighteningly, undeniably good at something. Each of the eight teenage girl...
2024-2025 Gertrude and Harold Vanderbilt Reading Series
Sep. 6, 2024— 2024-2025 Gertrude and Harold Vanderbilt Reading Series The Vanderbilt Department of English and Creative Writing Program is pleased to announce the Gertrude and Harold Vanderbilt Reading Series 2024-2025. Click here for the official press release with more details about this year’s series. All readings begin at 7:00 pm on Thursdays. Fall 2024 ♦...
2024 Merrill Moore Prizewinners Announced
Apr. 29, 2024—Congratulations to the winners of the 2024 Merrill Moore Prize
2024 Academy of American Poets Prize Winner and Honorable Mentions Announced
Apr. 17, 2024—2024 Academy of American Poets Prize Contest Winner and Honorable Mentions Congratulations to this year’s winner of the 2024 Academy of American Poets Prize Contest, Sydney Mayes, and to the students receiving honorable mentions for their work, Carson Colenbaugh and Ajla Dizdarevic. Winner: Sydney Mayes, GS, MFA, for “the walker system” Honorable Mentions: Ajla Dizdarevic,...
MFA Alum Claire Jiménez’s Novel Wins 2024 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
Apr. 17, 2024—Vanderbilt MFA Alum Claire Jiménez’s novel What Happened to Ruthy Ramirez (Grand Central) has been selected as the winner of the 2024 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. This year’s finalists included Jamel Brinkley’s Witness, Henry Hoke’s Open Throat, Alice McDermott’s Absolution, and Colin Winnette’s Users. The judges—Xochitl Gonzalez, Alan Michael Parker, and Lynn Steger Strong—considered 445 eligible novels and short...
April 18: Rebecca Makkai, fiction reading – 7 PM, Buttrick 101
Apr. 4, 2024—♦April 18, 7 PM, Buttrick 101: Rebecca Makkai, Fiction Rebecca Makkai is the Chicago-based author of the novels The Great Believers, The Hundred-Year House, and The Borrower, as well as the short story collection Music for Wartime. The Great Believers was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and received the ALA Carnegie Medal and the...
April 4, 2023: Bianca Stone, poetry reading – 7 PM, Buttrick 101
Mar. 25, 2024—♦April 4, 7 PM, Buttrick 101: Bianca Stone, poetry Bianca Stone is the author of the poetry collections What is Otherwise Infinite (Tin House, 2022), which won the 2023 Vermont Book Award in Poetry; The Möbius Strip Club of Grief, Someone Else’s Wedding Vows and collaborated with Anne Carson on the illuminated version of Antigonick. Her work has appeared in many...
March 21, 2024: Carlson-Wee, Jiménez, and Kunz — Alumni Reading Event @ 7 PM, Buttrick 101
Mar. 10, 2024—March 21, 2024 @ 7PM, Buttrick 101: Alumni Reading Event featuring Anders Carlson-Wee, Claire Jiménez, and Edgar Kunz Anders Carlson-Wee is the author of Disease of Kings, forthcoming from W.W. Norton in October 2023. He is also the author of The Low Passions, and Dynamite, winner of the Frost Place Chapbook Prize. His work has...
February 22, 2024: Sidik Fofana, fiction reading – 7 PM, Buttrick 101
Feb. 14, 2024—February 22, 7 PM: Sidik Fofana, Buttrick 101 Sidik Fofana is the author of Stories from the Tenants Downstairs, his debut short story collection composed of eight narratives about residents of a fictional building in Harlem. His work has appeared in the Sewanee Review and Granta. Fofana is a graduate of NYU’s MFA program and...
Lorrie Moore’s Novel ‘I Am Homeless if This Is Not My Home’ Named Winner of National Book Critics Circle Award
Jan. 29, 2024—Lorrie Moore’s novel, I Am Homeless if This Is Not my Home, has been announced as the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. The novel was also named a “Best Book of 2023” by The New Yorker, as part of a list “of the most captivating, notable, brilliant, thought-provoking, and talked-about...