Friends of Writers 2022 Community Digest: Awards, Print Magazine Publications, and Other Achievements

Many in the Friends of Writers network found success with awards, publications, and more. Congratulations to those listed below. While celebrating these wonderful projects, be sure to check out our special digest dedicated to book publications.

Rose Auslander (Poetry ’15)

  • “Praise the wind in your face, the hill rising before you” appeared in the Baltimore Review

Jamel Brinkley

  • Awarded the Rome Prize.

Leslie Blanco (Fiction ’07)

  • “A Ravishing Sun” was selected for Best American Short Stories 2022

Lynette Curtis (Fiction ’19)

  • Awarded a grant from the Elizabeth George Foundation

Alyson Dutemple (Fiction ’19)

  • “Alice Experiences Some Difficulties Reacclimating to Life After Her Adventures” appeared in Passages North, issue 43
  •  “Marvelous Freaks of Nature!” appeared in the Summer 2022 issue of The Colorado Review

Lara Egger (Poetry ’16)

  • “Object Permanence with a Line from Rimbaud” appeared the in Winter 2021-2022 issue of Ploughshares

Anne Elliot (Fiction ’21)

  • Awarded a grant from the Elizabeth George Foundation

Rebecca Foust (Poetry ’10)

  • “Because” appeared the in Winter 2021-2022 issue of Ploughshares

Carlos Andrés Gómez (Poetry ’18)

  • Spoken word poetry album Volta was released in September

Wendell Hawken (Poetry ’05)

Abby Horowitz (Fiction ’15)

  • Runner-up in 2021 Halifax Ranch Fiction Prize from American Short Fiction
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Andrew Kane (Fiction ’18)

  • “Lesser Towns” was recently featured in the Vassar Review 
  • “The Message” published by Blue Mesa Review. It won 2nd place in their fiction contest.

Jenny Johnson (Poetry ’11)

  • Jenny Johnson’s essay Change of Address appears in the Winter 2022 issue of The Georgia Review

Kimberly Kruge (Poetry ’99)

  • “San Sebastián” appeared the in Winter 2021-2022 issue of Ploughshares
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Tariq Luthun (Poetry ’18)

  • Recognized as one of The Poetry Foundation’s 2022 Ruth Lilly & Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellows

Chloe Martinez (Poetry ’09)

David Mills (Poetry ’16)

  • David Mills collection, Boneyarn (the first book of poems about slavery in New York City where the oldest and largest slave cemetery in the United States is located), won the 2022 North American Book Award and was a finalist for the 2022 Housatonic Award. He is currently a Schomburg Library Scholar-in-Residence Fellow.

David Ruekberg (Poetry ’04)

  • “Weaver,” was published in the Summer, 2022 edition of The Orchards Poetry Journal

Ian Shapira (Fiction ’20)

  • Awarded the 2022 Paul Tobenkin Memorial Award for his series of stories about Virginia Military Institute

J.C. Todd (Poetry ’90)

Ross White (Poetry ’08)

  • “Mule” appeared the in Winter 2021-2022 issue of Ploughshares

Lauren Yaffe (Fiction ’92)

Did we miss something?  Send us your news and we’ll include it in a mid-January update.

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