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Originally published on April 14, 2021 7:45 pm The winners of this year's Whiting Awards have been announced; the $50,000 prize is aimed at allowing emerging writers to focus full-time on their work — or to branch off in new directions. "Each of these winners has a rare literary gift," Whiting Director of Literary Programs Courtney Hodell says via email. "Our hope is that the Whiting Award will offer encouragement and support as they continue to dig deep into their art to nurture the work that sings it." This year's group of winners is "really a wide-ranging cohort of talent, and that itse...

The Georgia Coalition for Higher Education in Prison (GACHEP) announced that  Stacy Bell, professor of pedagogy in English at Oxford College, will serve as co-president of the nonprofit organization's first board of directors.  GACHEP is a coalition of higher education institutions providing college-level programs in Georgia prisons. The organization serves to build high-quality educational pathways, from pre-college coursework to accredited degree completion, for people who are in prison and people who have left prison in Georgia.   Pulitzer Prize-winning poet  Jericho Brown will be c...

20 Poets You Should Know For National Poetry Month, we're celebrating these bookshelf worthy scribes Dave Kotinsky/Getty Images for BET April is National Poetry month and with Amanda Gorman’s historic inauguration performance centering poetry on the world stage, people inside and outside of the literary world are paying extra attention to our country’s scribes during this season. Poets are our mirrors, healers, and judges. They reflect back our values, actions, and priorities. Exciting collections that explore gender identity, immigration experiences, Gullah-Geechee cultu...

Chattanooga State Announces Writers@Work Essay Winners Monday, April 12, 2021 Writers@Work essay contest winners from left, Jennifer Stewart, 2nd place; Marleigh Meggs, 1st place; and Mariah Laux, 3rd place Chattanooga State Community College welcomed Pulitzer Prize-winning Southern poet Jericho Brown to its award-winning Writers@Work series that celebrates Southern literature by integrating the work of selected authors into the curriculum of the Department's Composition Two course.  Each year, professors submit the strongest Composition Two essays focused on the Writers@Work text, and...

** James J. Siegel is the author of the poetry collection The God of San Francisco published in 2020 by Sibling Rivalry Press. He is the host and curator of the monthly Literary Speakeasy show at Martuni’s piano bar in San Francisco. Originally from Toledo, Ohio, his first poetry collection,  How Ghosts Travel, was inspired and fueled by his coming of age in the Midwest and was a finalist for an Ohioana Book Award. He was a scholarship recipient to the Antioch Writers’ Workshop in Yellow Springs, Ohio, and his poems have been featured in a number of journals including  The Cortland R...