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 …
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 …
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, …
We’re proud to announce that Michener Center Alumnus and playwright Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig (MCW 2009) is the recipient of a 2024 Whiting Award. The Whiting Awards give $50,000 each to ten exceptional emerging writers of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama. The 2024 Whiting Awards Judges praised how Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig’s “meticulous and politically acute fables …
We can’t stop staring at our beautiful new building! The Dobie House garage has been transformed into a gorgeous, spacious, and ADA-accessible room. We recently threw a party to celebrate what would have been Mr. Michener’s 117th birthday, and we were thrilled by how many students, staff, and faculty found time to stop by. We hope …
We’re thrilled to welcome award-winning poet Ross Gay, who will read and sign his latest work, The Book of (More) Delights, at the Harry Ransom Center on Thursday, February 29th at 6pm. Books will be available for purchase, and a reception will follow. Please click here to reserve a seat. About Ross Gay Ross …
The Michener Center’s Spring 2024 Visiting Faculty members Jennifer Foerster and Manuel Muñoz will read their work at the Harry Ransom Center Prothro Theatre at 6pm on Thursday, January 18th, 2024. The reading is free and open to the public, and a reception will follow. Jennifer Elise Foerster is the author of three books of poetry, …
Michener Center Fellow Gavin Yuan Gao’s collection of poetry, At the Altar of Touch has won the Prime Minister’s Award for Poetry, one of Australia’s Prime Minister’s Literary Awards “celebrating outstanding literary talent in Australia and the valuable contribution Australian writing makes to the nation’s cultural and intellectual life.” At the Altar of Touch, the …
Michener Center Fellow Lara Palmqvist has been awarded the 2023 Carol Mendelsohn College Drama Award from Humanitas for her feature screenplay, The Garden. The award is one of the annual Humanitas Prizes honoring film and television, which “seek[s] to recognize work that explores the human condition in a nuanced and meaningful way.” In addition to …
Author Lauren Green (MCW ’21) has been selected for the Forbes Magazine “30 Under 30” Media Cohort for 2024. From Forbes Magazine: “Lauren Green is a poet and author whose chapbook, “A GREAT DARK HOUSE,” was published by the Poetry Society of America in 2023. Green’s fiction work has appeared in 20 different journals including …
