At the November 15th National Book Awards, Jesmyn Ward was awarded her second prize in the Fiction category for her novel Sing, Unburied, Sing. Russian journalist Masha Gessen took home the Nonfiction trophy for The Future Is History. Get the full details here.
Lauren Alwan’s fiction has appeared in the O. Henry Prize Stories, the Southern Review, the Alaska Quarterly Review, StoryQuarterly, in the Bellevue Literary Review as the recipient of the 2016 Goldenberg Prize for Fiction, and elsewhere. Her essays have appeared in ZYZZYVA, The Rumpus, The Millions, The Northwest Review of Books, Writer’s Digest, among others, and listed as notable in Best American Essays 2016. She is a prose editor at the museum of americana, an online literary review. Follow her on Twitter at @lauren_alwan and learn more at www.laurenalwan.com
At the November 15th National Book Awards, Jesmyn Ward was awarded her second prize in the Fiction category for her novel Sing, Unburied, Sing. Russian journalist Masha Gessen took home the Nonfiction trophy for The Future Is History. Get the full details here.
