Tayari's Blog: Fantastic Things Are Happening

Posted by TayariJones on April 20, 2008 08:02 AM
Filed under The Writing Life

to people who read this blog!


  • Jelani Cobb won the race for delegate in the 5th congressional district and he will be representing it as a committed Barack Obama delegate at the convention in Denver. (Y'all rememeber Jelani, right?)
  • Sarah Schulman has been elected as a Fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities at New York University.
  • Shelley Ettinger won a summer residency from the Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts. (I had never heard of it, but now I want to apply!)
  • Camille Dungy's second book of poems will be published by Red Hen Press in 2010.
  • Sibongible Lynch is doing her first reading at Clayton State University as part of the launching party for the literary journal, The Cygnet. (They're publishing two of her poems and a short story.)
  • Dolen Perkins-Valdez will have her first novel, Wench, published by HarperCollins!


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