Friends of Writers Summer 2024 Community Digest: Awards, Print Magazine Publications, and Other Achievements

Many in the Friends of Writers network found success in the first half of 2024 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.

Joseph Bathanti (poetry ’91)

  • Named to the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame

Nandini Bhattacharya (fiction ’23)

  • “After the House Burned Down” appeared in Oyster River Pages

Christopher Castellani

  • Recipient of a 2024 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship

Sarah Cypher (fiction ’20)

  • Longlisted for the 2024 PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel for The Skin and Its Girl

Carlos Andrés Gomez (poetry ’18)

  • Recipient of the 2024 Yeats International Poetry Prize for “Double Gold Shovel Sonnet Found on the Q Train”

Jennifer Grotz

  • Recipient of Texas Institute of Letters’ 2024 Literary Award

Naomi Guttman (poetry ’88)

  • First film, “More Than You Can Know,” shown at Short Sweet Film Festival 2024 and Indie Short Film Festival 2024

Abby Horowitz (fiction ’15)

  • Visual essay “Haunt­ings: Look­ing Back at Fall 2023” appeared in Jewish Book Council
  • Visual essay “How ketamine therapy helped me process the horrors of Oct. 7” appeared in Forward

Rachel Howard (fiction ’09)

  • Recipient of a 2024 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship

Dan Leach (fiction ’20)

  • Winner of the 2024 South Carolina Novel Series for Challenger, to be published in 2025

Chloe Martinez (poetry ’09)

  • Recipient of the Anne Frydman Translation Prize from the Hopkins Review

Daniela Molnar (poetry ’21)

  • Recipient of the Stafford/Hall award for poetry, presented by the 2024 Oregon Book awards, for her collection, Chorus

Daye Phillippo (poetry ’14)

  • “Flock” appeared in Broad River Review vol. 55

Dominic Smith

  • Recipient of Texas Institute of Letters’ 2024 Literary Award

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