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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · May 30

Ocean Vuong remembers listening to Sufjan Stevens’s Carrie & Lowell for the first time: “The songs prove that we were here. They are made of air—and yet we walk on them.”

“The Songs Prove That We Were Here”: Ocean Vuong on Sufjan Stevens

When Carrie & Lowell was first released in 2015, I was still in grad school at NYU, trying to finish what would become my first book of poems, Night Sky with Exit Wounds. I remember listening t…

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Whiting Foundation @whitingfoundation.bsky.social · Jun 5

"That is the great miracle of this work. Words weigh nothing, and yet they make everything occur."

We are so thankful to Ocean Vuong, who gave the keynote speech at the 2025 Whiting Awards in April. Read his full speech via @literaryhub.bsky.social: lithub.com/ocean-vuong-...

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Whiting Foundation @whitingfoundation.bsky.social · Jun 5

What a lineup! Join us next week to celebrate previous Whiting Literary Magazine Prize Winner The Common's 15th Anniversary!

The Common @commonmag.bsky.social · May 14

We're coming to the Big Apple! In a few short weeks, come celebrate The Common's 15th anniversary in NYC with some of our esteemed authors: Xochitl Gonzalez, Lynn Steger Strong, and Rumaan Alam, with Leigh Newman moderating. Click the link below to RSVP!

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Whiting Foundation @whitingfoundation.bsky.social · May 13

Congratulations to Ocean Vuong (Whiting Award 2016), whose new novel THE EMPEROR OF GLADNESS is out today from @penguinpress.bsky.social!

Buy the book, and read more work by Vuong on our website: www.whiting.org/new-books

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Wesleyan University Press @weslpress.bsky.social · Apr 10

Annie Wenstrup, author of The Museum of Unnatural Histories, has just won the #WhitingAward!

Learn more about this amazing achievement from
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#AnnieWenstrup #IndigenousAlaska #Poetry #Booksky

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Whiting Foundation @whitingfoundation.bsky.social · Apr 9

Congratulations to @shubhasunder.bsky.social, winner of a 2025 Whiting Award for www.whiting.org/awards/winne...

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Whiting Foundation @whitingfoundation.bsky.social · Apr 9

Congratulations to Claire Luchette, winner of a 2025 Whiting Award for Fiction! www.whiting.org/awards/winne...

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Whiting Foundation @whitingfoundation.bsky.social · Apr 9

Congratulations to @samuelkolawole.bsky.social, winner of a 2025 Whiting Award for Fiction! www.whiting.org/awards/winne...

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Whiting Foundation @whitingfoundation.bsky.social · Apr 9

Congratulations to Emil Ferris, winner of a 2025 Whiting Award for Fiction!
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Whiting Foundation @whitingfoundation.bsky.social · Apr 9

Congratulations to Elwin Cotman, winner of a 2025 Whiting Award for Fiction! www.whiting.org/awards/winne...

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Whiting Foundation @whitingfoundation.bsky.social · Apr 9

Congratulations to Liza Birkenmeier, winner of a 2025 Whiting Award for Drama! www.whiting.org/awards/winne...

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Whiting Foundation @whitingfoundation.bsky.social · Apr 9

Congratulations to Sofi Thanhauser, winner of a 2025 Whiting Award for Nonfiction!
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Whiting Foundation @whitingfoundation.bsky.social · Apr 9

Congratulations to Aisha Sabatini Sloan, winner of a 2025 Whiting Award for Nonfiction!
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Whiting Foundation @whitingfoundation.bsky.social · Apr 9

Congratulations to @akwenstrup.bsky.social, winner of a 2025 Whiting Award for Poetry! www.whiting.org/awards/winne...

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Whiting Foundation @whitingfoundation.bsky.social · Apr 9

Congratulations to @karismaprice.bsky.social, winner of a 2025 Whiting Award for Poetry! www.whiting.org/awards/winne...

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Whiting Foundation @whitingfoundation.bsky.social · Apr 4

We can't wait to share the names of the 2025 Whiting Award winners! Keep an eye out for the announcement of this year's recipients at 7pm on Wednesday, April 9.

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Meg Reid 🦦 @megireid.bsky.social · Feb 6

Working on a "deeply researched and imaginatively composed" manuscript about the South and considering applying to the Whiting Creative Nonfiction grant? Let me know. We have one spot left in 2026 for the right literary nonfiction project and bc we're small/nimble, can get the contract done in time.

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Orion Magazine @orionmagazine.bsky.social · Mar 22

To celebrate this month's Blood Moon, between March 13 and March 24th, the first 50 people to become a Sustaining Partner will each unlock a $150 gift to Orion from the @whitingfoundation.bsky.social Help support Orion—just a few more days to sign up!
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Whiting Foundation @whitingfoundation.bsky.social · Feb 27

On 3/6, join the Whiting Foundation at our 2025 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant info session! Learn more about the grant (deadline 4/23) and ask our staff your questions. Find the registration link and more info about the application here: www.whiting.org/writers/crea...

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Whiting Foundation @whitingfoundation.bsky.social · Feb 14

On 2/19, join the Whiting Foundation at our 2025 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant info session! Learn more about the grant (deadline 4/23) and ask our staff your questions. Find the registration link and more info about the application here: whiting.org/writers/crea...

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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · Feb 6

Writers and translators: submissions to the Armory Square Prize are now open! Don't forget to submit (and to check out past Armory Square winners and finalists on WWB, of course).

Armory Square Prize @armorysqprize.bsky.social · Jan 17

📢 Submissions are now open for the 2025 Armory Square Prize for South Asian Literature in Translation! The prize is open to English translators working with any work in any South Asian language.
Learn more and apply here: www.armorysv.com/2025-submiss...

2025 Submissions Call — Armory Square Ventures

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The New York Review of Books @nybooks.com · Feb 6

The photographer Larry Fink “was patient enough to blend into the wallpaper as needed,” writes Lucy Sante, “but he resisted the presumption of invisibility and omniscience.”

A Human Among Humans | Lucy Sante

I first became aware of Larry Fink, who died in 2023, sometime in the 1980s when I bought an oversize postcard of one of his pictures. It showed one of

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Library of America @libraryofamerica.bsky.social · Feb 5

On 2/19, join authors @tananarivedue.bsky.social, Victor LaValle, and Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, along with Black Fantastic editor @andrecarrington.bsky.social, for an online conversation about the new wave of science fiction and fantasy by Black writers. RSVP here: www.eventbrite.com/e/the-black-...

The Black Fantastic: The New Wave of Afrofuturist Fiction

Black voices at the cutting edge of American science fiction and fantasy

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Eiren Caffall @eirencaffall.bsky.social · Feb 6

In a dark time I keep reaching my hands out to beauty and meaning, afraid I’ll lose it. Every room I walk into with my books right now feels holy and crucial. Here we are, saving each other and saving the world entire in the face of burning, melting, wholesale theft. Come out.

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Whiting Foundation @whitingfoundation.bsky.social · Feb 6

Applications for the 2025 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant are now open! Writers with books under contract in Canada, the UK, and the US are eligible to apply. Up to ten winners will receive $40,000 each.

Find out more here: whiting.org/writers/crea...

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