unbelievable that I'm supposed to give Columbia/Barnard students an exam on political theories of freedom after this

🚨ATTENTION Black women across Africa and the diaspora🚨 Cassava Republic Press is offering a global Black women's non-fiction book manuscript prize with a $20,000 advance for the winner and two $5,000 runner-up prizes!!

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The winner of the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction is Nigerian writer Ani Kayode Somtochukwu! 🎉 His debut novel, AND THEN HE SANG A LULLABY (Roxane Gay Books Grove Atlantic), was published on June 6, 2023. Congratulations!

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BREAKING: University of Chicago students join nationwide protest by setting up encampment in solidarity with Gaza. The camp is called UChicago Popular University for Gaza, located on main quad.

This week's diary entry is 'She Speaks' by the brilliant Zilla Jones - decolonizing word by beautiful word. A nameless girl reckons with all the ways, large and small, that family can wound.

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BREAKING: The 2024 PEN America Literary Awards ceremony has been canceled. Two juried prizes will still be conferred, and the $75,000 purse accompanying the PEN/Stein Book Award will be donated to the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund. buff.ly/44hKTrt

Nigerian chess master Tunde Onakoya beat the world record for the longest continuous play of chess, after playing for 58 hours. He hopes to raise one million dollars to donate to children's chess education.

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To help alleviate the burden that comes with this offer, thee black sylvia plath has helped me launch a GoFundMe campaign to raise funds to cover my relocation expenses.

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Standing in complete solidarity with students at Columbia U who are braving attacks from the Institution (of which I am alum who has experienced their vitriolic retaliation) and NYPD to demand a Free Palestine. Doing what so many with more years are afraid to do.

Last night, I had my book launch event for 'Perfect Little Angels.' It felt joyous and intimate. Thankful for the gift of community ❤️

📣 MEET THE 2024 SHORTLIST! 👋

We are delighted to present the 2024 #CWprize shortlist! The 23 writers have been selected by an international judging panel from 7,359 entries in a record-breaking year.

Congratulations to you all!

Read more 👇
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I have a new essay in the latest issue of The New Quarterly. It dives into the sometimes tortured intersection of software engineering & creative writing + the angst of trying to figure life out.

Book launch event kicks off tomorrow at Waterloo Public Library, supported by Words Worth Books. I'll be in conversation with the incredible Francesca Ekwuyasi, author of Butter Honey Pig Bread 🤩

It's our favorite kind of Monday: our APRIL ISSUE has arrived!
WORDS from Clara Otto, Tony Payne, m mick powell 🇵🇸, & Dylan McNulty-Holmes
ART from Austin Cullen
PLUS Jennifer Fliss interviews Josh Denslow
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This flash from Melissa Llanes Brownlee in the Summer 2023 issue of Indiana Review

How it started v. How it's going. OBSESSED with my cover! If you haven't already, please pre-order my collection here Obligations to the Wounded: Stories (Pitt Drue Heinz Lit Prize) a.co/d/hcjnvdK
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FABULOUS new poem by Sharon Olds in The New Yorker ❤️🙌