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

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

Charles Douthat (poetry ’19)

  • Poem “The Planting” published in The Kenyon Review

Rebecca Foust (poetry ’10)

  • 2023 New Ohio Review Prize winner for “Has this happened to you”
  • Poems “Ocean Beach” and “Pasiphae” published in The Florida Review
  • Sonnet Crown “Pissed-Off Ars Poetica” published as the May 2024 online feature at The Common
  • Title poem from collection ONLY inspired a dance poem film that appeared online in conjunction with the publication of Triquarterly Issue 165
  • 2024 James Dickey Prize winner for “Parallax” and “Grounds for Dissolution”
  • Poem “July 2023” published in Alaska Quarterly Review
  • Poem “You Need to Condense” published in The Cincinnati Review
  • Poem “Imago” appeared in A Literary Field Guide to Northern Appalachia

Christine Hale (fiction ’96)

  • Essay “Inside Outside In Between” published in The Southern Humanities Review

Victoria Korth (poetry ’18)

  • 2024 Troubadour International Poetry Prize winner for Poem “Mazes”

Phuong Anh Le (fiction ’19)

  • Story “Aventine Hill” published in The Southern Review
  • Story “The Interpreter” was a finalist for the 2024 Robert and Adele Schiff Awards

Sonja Srinivasan (fiction ’19)

  • Excerpt from novel manuscript, The Senator’s Wife, published in The Shanghai Literary Review

Lara Tupper (fiction ’01)

  • Short story, “Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover” appeared in TRUTH ANTHOLOGY, published by the Youth Branch of the Writers for Democratic Action

Rebecca Winterer (fiction ’03)

  • Story “Toy Collector” appeared in anthology collection Best Small Fictions 2024

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