Friends of Writers Winter 2023 Community Digest: Awards, Print Magazine Publications, and Other Achievements

Many in the Friends of Writers network found success in the second half of 2023 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.

Kellam Ayres (Poetry ’10)

  • Recipient of the 2023 Barry Spacks Poetry Prize for her manuscript In the Cathedral of My Undoing

Rae Canaan (Fiction ’22)

  • “Everyone at the Table” appeared in The Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly
  • “Monster” was a Finalist in Driftwood Press’ In-House Short Story Contest
  • “Dust Motes” received Honorable Mention in Craft Magazine’s Hybrid Writing Contest

Liza Katz Duncan (Poetry ’22)

  • “North Cape May, March 2022” appeared in The Kenyon Review

Jonathan Escoffery

  • Shortlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize for his novel, If I Survive You

Rebecca Foust (Poetry ’10)

  • “Reading Heidegger Brings Wild Joy” appeared in Plume 
  • “Stone Fruit” appeared in the Missouri Review

Louis Gurman (Fiction ’12)

  • “Naturally” appeared in COOLEST American Stories 2024

Akil Kumarasamy

  • Longlisted for the 2023 Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award for her novel, Meet Us by the Roaring Sea

Phuong Anh Le (Fiction ’19)

  • “The General” appeared in One Story
  • “Rainbow” appeared in Southern Indiana Review

Chloe Martinez (Poetry ’09)

  • “Frick” appeared in Ecotone

Leah Nieboer (Poetry ’18)

  • Collection, SOFT APOCALYPSE, named one of 2023’s ten best debuts in poetry by Poets & Writers

Susan Okie (Poetry ’14)

  • Recipient of the 2023 Off the Grid Poetry Prize for her manuscript Woman at the Crossing

Hanna Pylväinen

  • Finalist for the National Book Awards 2023 for Fiction for her novel The End of Drum-Time

Glenis Redmond (Poetry ’11)

  • Named a Poet Laureate Fellow by the Academy of American Poets

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