Jessie was awarded this prize for her short story ”Mouth and Heart” (StoryQuarterly).
2024 Emmy Nominations: MCW Alumni & Their Work
The 2024 Primetime Emmy nominations were announced this week. We’re thrilled to see three MCW alumni and their work in the mix! Shōgun, written & created by Rachel Kondo (MCW 2016) received 25 nominations, including 2 nominations for Kondo for Outstanding Writing for A Drama Series. Only Murders in the Building, which Ben …
5 New Books by MCW Alumni to Read This Summer
1. The World After Alice by Lauren Aliza Green “When Morgan and Benji surprise their families with a wedding invitation to Maine, they’re aware the news of their clandestine relationship will come as a shock. Twelve years have passed since the stunning loss of sixteen-year-old Alice, Benji’s sister and Morgan’s best friend, and no one …
Alumn John McManus Wins American Short(er) Fiction Prize
Alumn John McManus (MCW 2004) is the winner of the 2024 American Short(er) Fiction Prize, judged by Dantiel W. Moniz for his story “Jack Sprat’s Wife.” Moniz called McManus’ story “a gorgeously crafted and contained world, a peek inside the deep bowels of family, shame, and grief, which, although brief, also allowed me to see …
MCW Alumn Monica Macansantos Awarded Shearing Fellowship
MCW Alumn Monica Macansantos (MCW 2013) been awarded a Black Mountain Institute 2024-2025 Shearing Fellowship. The fellowship brings writers to the UNLV campus for one year to “join a community of creative writers and scholars in a thriving literary scene in Las Vegas and on the campus of UNLV.” More on the fellowship and this year’s …
MCW Alumn Rachel Kondo to Receive Austin Film Festival New Voices Award
Rachel Kondo (MCW 2016), co-creator of Shōgun on FX, has been awarded the 2024 New Voice Award from Austin Film Festival. Kondo is being honored alongside the show’s co-creator, Justin Marks, who is receiving the Writer’s Writer Award. The AFF New Voice Award celebrates unique and captivating new voices in film, television, and new media. More …
Alumni Work Streaming This Summer
Look out for MCW alumni work in your feed this summer: TV series Shōgun (FX) and Fallout (Prime Video), and podcast Pack One Bag (Lemonade Media). Shōgun, a new series co-created by Rachel Kondo (MCW 2016) and based on the bestselling novel by James Clavell, is now streaming on FX. The series is “set in Japan …
MCW Fellow Darius Atefat-Peckham is Keene Prize Runner-Up
Michener Center Fellow Darius Atefat-Peckham has been named a runner-up for the 2024 UT Keene Prize for Literature, for an excerpt from his forthcoming book of poetry, Book of Kin. The Keene Prize, named for E. L. Keene, a 1942 graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, is open to all UT students and …
Alumn Abe Koogler’s Play Opens to Positive Reviews
Michener Center Playwriting Alumnus Abe Koogler‘s play Staff Meal has opened to rave reviews, with recent coverage from The New York Times, Vulture, Observer, New York Theatre Guide, and New York Stage Review. “In ‘Staff Meal,'” writes Rachel Sherman for The New York Times, “Koogler creates a world somewhere between front and back of house, where food …
Congratulations, Michener Center for Writers Class of 2024!
The Michener Center celebrated the Class of 2024 at graduation events this past Friday and Saturday, April 26th & 27th, 2024. This year’s Fiction graduates include Eileen Sungyoo Chong, Sophia Emmons-Bell, Stephanie Malia Morris, Gracie Newman, Lara Palmqvist, and Frankie Zwick. Poetry graduates include Alfredo Aguilar, Janna Coleman, Gabriel Fine, Gabrielle Rajerison, Paul S. Ukrainets, …