New Literary Project

Joyce Carol Oates in conversation with the 2025 Joyce Carol Oates Prize Winners Jennine Capó Crucet & Willy Vlautin on June 4, 4pm Pacific. Register with the link in bio.

Jennine Capó Crucet, of North Carolina, and Willy Vlautin, of Oregon, have been named the ninth and tenth Recipients of the 2025 Joyce Carol Oates Prizes (JCO) awarded by New Literary Project (NewLit). Each receives $50,000 on the occasion of NewLit’s tenth anniversary in 2025.

New Literary Project is honored to announce the five distinguished finalists for the 2025 Joyce Carol Oates Prize (JCO). Congratulations to our finalists. newliteraryproject.org/whats-new/2025…

Calling all Creative Writers who Teach High School: Submissions are now open for the Jack Hazard Fellowship. FInd the details on our website.

Celebrating student readers who attended our creative writing workshop, and shared their work during our October residency. Join our mailing list to keep up to date on upcoming events.

Calling all Creative Writers who are High School Teachers: The Jack Hazard Fellowship Short Documentary is out now. Watch it at buff.ly/4hJgCYL Submissions open this week. Get ready.

The Jack Hazard Fellowship application is opening soon. Watch our short documentary to learn more. Visit buff.ly/3YVKNVt

We're still celebrating our student readers. These are students who've attended one of our creative writing workshops and then join us at one of our October residency events to present their work. We hope they all continue to write their hearts out. buff.ly/3YVKNVt

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People bravely write their hearts out every day in New Literary Project, across generations, & communities, & boundaries. Join us. Support arts education. Donate today. Link in Bio.

Grateful to 2024 Joyce Carol Oates Prize Winner Ben Fountain, author of Devil Makes Three, and @ChrisArnold, Head of the Creative Writing Department at Saint Mary's College of CA for their inspiring talk@. Learn more about New Literary Project.

We loved seeing you at one of our many October events. People bravely write their hearts out every day in New Literary Project, across generations, & communities, & boundaries. Join us. Support arts education. Donate today. Link in bio.

Have you seen our short documentary about the Jack Hazard Fellowship? The Jack Hazard Fellowship is for creative writers who are high school teachers. Hear their inspiring stories. buff.ly/48Aa8aQ

2024 Jack Hazard Fellow Sarah Schiff spent the summer fellowship working on This Accidental World, a novel that follows the amateur sleuthing of Hawthorn Weathersby, an aspiring rock musician. Learn more. Link in bio.

2024 Jack Hazard Fellow Cyd Apellido spent the summer fellowship working on Beneath Her Shadow. Set in a futuristic Miami, David Viktor Graff and Ms. H navigate the complexities of their relationship as they grapple with each other's worlds filled with intrigue, chaos, and love.

2024 Jack Hazard Fellow Mohammad Hakima spent the summer fellowship working on A Leak in the Roof, a memoir-in-essays about his childhood in Iran. Hakima is an NYC-based author and educator. @mohammadhakima

2024 Jack Hazard Fellow Alonzo Vereen spent the summer fellowship working on The Mean Girls of Morehouse, a novel that explores the quotidian moments of gay Black life that aren't centered around whiteness or straightness.

Scenes from VOTE NEWLIT 2024. Support arts education and make a donation. buff.ly/3NQQhuj

2024 Jack Hazard Fellow Heather Tone spent the summer fellowship working on This Moment Moves Us Forward, a novel in which a newly-blended family of four settles into living with one another. Learn more. Link in bio.