Creative Writing News Archive
2021
Jericho Brown elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Heather Christle awarded 2021 Howard Foundation Fellowship in Nonfiction
Tayari Jones awarded 2021 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in Fiction
Jericho Brown named to Georgia Writers Hall of Fame
Creative Writing major Lydia Abedeen selected as a 2021 Tin House Scholar
2020
Hank Klibanoff and WABE podcast "Buried Truths" wins National Edward R. Murrow Award
Jericho Brown wins the 2020 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for his collection The Tradition
Third season of WABE's "Buried Truths" podcast, based on Hank Klibanoff's Georgia Civil Rights Cold Cases class, now available
New Creative Writing Peer Mentoring Program for First and Second-Year Students
Tayari Jones' An American Marriage Shortlisted for the 2020 International Dublin Literary Award
Hank Klibanoff wins Emory B. Williams Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award
Samah Meghjee wins Marion Luther Brittain Award
Lucy Wainger wins Lous B. Sudler Prize in the Arts
Jericho Brown profiled in Garden and Gun magazine
Jericho Brown awarded USA Fellowship by United States Artists
Jericho Brown's The Tradition named finalist for the Book Critics Circle Award in poetry
2019
Essay by Heather Christle in The Paris Review
CNN Interview with T Cooper about his documentary Man Made
Jericho Brown's The Tradition and Soniah Kamal's Unmarriageable selected for 2019 Books All Georgians Should Read list
Jericho Brown's The Tradition announced as a finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry
Heather Christle's The Crying Book chosen by the New York Times as "New & Noteworthy"
Tiphanie Yanique -- interview and story "God's Caravan" in the New Yorker magazine
T Cooper's New TV Writing Course Offers Students Path to Collaboration and Creativity
Tayari Jones Shares an Appreciation of Toni Morrison-NPR
Tayari Jones named 2019-2025 Andrew D. White Professor-at-large at Cornell University
Jericho Brown's The Tradition included on the National Book Award for Poetry Longlist
Hank Klibanoff's acceptance speech at the Peabody Awards Ceremony
Tayari Jones wins Women's Prize for fiction for An American Marriage: The New York Times; The Guardian
Hank Klibanoff's podcast "Buried Truths" wins Peabody Award
Tayari Jones wins 2019 Aspen Words Literary Prize for An American Marriage
Hank Klibanoff's podcast "Buried Truths" nominated for a Peabody Award
Jericho Brown's third poetry collection, The Tradition, now published
Tayari Jones interview in the February 19, 2019 Wall Street Journal
Season 2 of Hank Klibanoff's podcast "Buried Truths" debuts February 18 on WABE
Now This: In Our Own Words: Jericho Brown Performs "Heart Condition"
Tayari Jones' novel An American Marriage nominated for NAACP Image Award
Tayari Jones interviewed on WABE's City Lights
Tayari Jones interviewed in ArtsAtlanta
T Cooper's award-winning documentary Man Made to screen January 31 at Emory
2018
Creative Writing alum Farhan Arshad sells new comedy series to CBS
New Yorker article about T Cooper and his documentary Man Made
Copper Canyon Press announces forthcoming poetry collection, The Tradition, by Jericho Brown
Article about T Cooper in Emory Magazine
Interview with Tayari Jones in the Tampa Bay Times
"SisterWriters" Tayari Jones, Pearl Cleage share their literary friendship in Emory talk
Two Tenure Track Poetry Positions Job Search announced
2019-2021 Fellowships in poetry, fiction and playwriting announced
T Cooper's Changers Book Four published by Akashic Books
Tayari Jones' An American Marriage longlisted for the National Book Award in Fiction
Tayari Jones will be keynote speaker at Georgia Art and Criminal Justice Forum
Hank Klibanoff's "Buried Truths" podcast renewed by WABE for a second season
Creative Writing and Emory authors at the Decatur Book Festival, Aug. 30-Sept. 2
Former Fiction Fellow Lydia Conklin wins Rona Jaffe Writers' Award
Hank Klibanoff's "Buried Truths" podcast renewed for a second season
Interview with Jericho Brown in The Guardian
Jericho Brown's poem "Foreday in the Morning" published in Time magazine issue on the South
T Cooper's Man Made wins two prizes at Outfest 2018
Tayari Jones publishes article in the July 8, 2018 Sunday NY Times on the prison letters of Nelson Mandala
Author T Cooper joins Creative Writing faculty
Author Tayari Jones joins Creative Writing faculty
Essay by Jericho Brown published in Lambda Literary
Hank Klibanoff interview about podcast "Buried Truths" in ArtsATL
Jericho Brown's poem "Night Shift" published in The New Yorker
2017
Article by Jericho Brown in the September issue of Flaunt magazine
Interview in Breakout with Creative Writing major Rostam Zafari
Creative Writing alumna Lauren Gunderson publishes children's book Blast Off to the Moon!
New Fellows in Poetry and Fiction Announced
Video of Natasha Trethewey's 2017 commencement address
Natasha Trethewey to give 2017 commencement address
Creative Writing major Darby Jardeleza wins 2017 Sudler Prize in the Arts
Creative Writing major Rostam Zafari wins -- and donates! -- $100,000 Cyrus Prize