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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...

Alexander Chee, Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing “ Share April 12, 2021 by Hannah Silverstein Joshua Bennett, Alexander Chee, and Tarek El-Ariss are among 184 award recipients. From left are 2021 Guggenheim winners Assistant Professor Joshua Bennett, Associate Professor Alexander Chee, and Professor Tarek El-Ariss. PreviousNext Three Dartmouth faculty members have been awarded fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation—putting Dartmouth among the top 10 colleges and universities with multiple Guggenheim recipients this year. Joshua Bennett, an assis...

GUESTS: Allison Adair - Associate Professor at Boston College where she teaches creative writing, with a focus on poetry and flash fiction and a special interest in the digital humanities. Her work has been honored with the Pushcart Prize and her poems have been published in the  American Poetry Review and  The Clearing, won the 2020 Max Ritvo Poetry Prize. Joshua Bennett - Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. He is the author of  The Sobbing School - a National Poetry Series winner and a finalist for an NAACP Image Award - as well as  Being Prop...