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Samuel Kọ́láwọlé’s novel The Road to the Salt Sea has won the prestigious 2025 Whiting Award for Fiction.

Gabrielle Foreman’s essay, “Sankofa Imperatives: Black Women, Digital Methods, and the Archival Turn,” was awarded the Hogan Prize for the best essay published in A/B Auto | Biography Studies.

Elizabeth Kadetsky has another cover essay in American Scholar, “Tiger Mom.”

Samuel Kọ́láwọlé’s novel, The Road to the Salt Sea, has been longlisted for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel.

Grace King was recognized by Penn State News for her work on materials associated with George Nelson, the chaplain on board the Harriman Alaska Expedition of 1899

Congratulations to our teaching faculty members who were recently promoted.

Keith Gilyard will launch his second memoir, The Promise of Language, and read from his forthcoming fifth (!) collection of poems, On Location, at The Print Factory.

David Williams’s play Separating the Art has been chosen to be a part of the 25th Annual Appalachian Festival of Plays and Playwrights at Barter Theatre in Abingdon, VA.

Phillip Zapkin’s article, “Analytical Engine: Computers, Prophecy, and the Paradox of Fate in Walid Ikhlasi’s Oedipus” has just come out in Theatre & Performance Notes and Counternotes.

Toby Thompson has published ‘ Jamie’s Turn’ in Mountain Outlaw.

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