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Melissa Febos, associate professor in the Nonfiction Writing Program, was named winner of the 2021 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism for Girlhood, a collection of essays about the values that shape girls and the women they become.

The Steinbeck Fellowship, a monetary award given annually to two or three emerging writers to help them complete a book project. Fellows are required to spend their fellowship year in the San José area and to give regular public readings from their work in progress.

Find more information on past Steinbeck Fellowship Fellows.

The Steinbeck Fellowship, a monetary award given annually to two or three emerging writers to help them complete a book project. Fellows are required to spend their fellowship year in the San José area and to give regular public readings from their work in progress.

For a longtime aerial photographer, snowfall in the Green Mountain State offers a fresh palette of possibility.

Cara Blue Adams’s collection of interwoven short stories, You Never Get It Back, opens like this: “I met loss the other day. I took his measurements. My yellow tape looped around my arm, pins held tight between pursed lips, I circled him. I measured his thin wrists, his frail neck, ...

ENFIELD — Enfield voters will be asked to approve two multimillion-dollar renovation projects at this year’s Town Meeting on April 30.The three-member Selectboard voted unanimously Tuesday night to recommend spending $5.8 million to renovate Whitney...

David Surette is this week's featured poet.

Sarah Rose Nordgren’s chapbook, The Creation Museum, is forthcoming from Harbor Editions in 2022. Her previous books include Best Bones (2014), winner of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, and Darwin’s Mother (2017), both from University of Pittsburgh Press. Nordgren’s poems, essays, and multimedia work appear widely in periodicals such as Agni, Ploughshares, The Kenyon

Washington, D.C.-based gay writer Philip Dean Walker’s third book contains six short stories consisting of fictionalized situations involving characters whose names will be familiar to many readers.