Lighthousers are in the habit of brightening our days with their accomplishments, so in the interest of paying it forward, we pass along some recent literary news. Let’s get right into it!
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Faculty Wins
- Three cheers for Colorado Book Award winners David Wroblewski (Familiaris, fiction), Cynthia Swanson (Anyone But Her, Thriller), and shoutout to Lit Fest 2024 presenter Joel H. Morris for picking up the historical fiction award for All Our Yesterdays.
- Karen Palmer’s memoir, She’s Under Here, comes out next month and will be featured as part of the Book Project Weekend. Sign up for the reading here, or join for pizza as well by registering here.
- Evanthia Bromiley (Crown) and Christina Rivera (My Oceans), both Lighthouse workshoppers-turned-faculty, published books in the last couple of months and will be doing a joint event at the Tattered Cover Aspen Grove on Friday, 8/25. RSVP here.
- Erika Krouse's short story, “Eat My Moose,” won the 2025 Edgar Award for Best Short Story and will be included in anthologies published later this year.
- Rachel Weaver’s planning a big 2026: her latest novel, as yet untitled, will come out from Lake Union Press in June 2026, and her memoir, Dizzy, comes out from West Virginia University Press in March of 2026.
- Elizabeth Robinson's work will appear in the next Best American Poetry anthology, and she has two books coming out in the fall of 2025: Vulnerability Index (Northwestern University Press) and Being Modernists Together (Solid Objects).
- Vauhini Vara was featured recently on Fresh Air with Terry Gross, where she talked about AI, her new book Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age, and being a precocious kid who came in third in the National Spelling Bee.
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Book Project and Poetry Collective Triumphs
- Two big Book Project books come out in coming weeks: The Tragedy of True Crime by John J. Lennon (Book Project 2022 grad) hits bookstores next month, and And The River Drags Her Down by Jihyun Yun (Book Project 2023 grad) comes out Oct. 7. We’ll have John’s books available at the George Saunders events next month, as well as Book Project 2020 grad Nini Berndt’s There Are Reasons for This, which came out in June. She was featured in a recent Colorado Sun profile.
- Soon-to-be a Book Project 2025 grad, Rhea Borja's essay, “Condiment Sandwich,” was published in the spring 2025 issue of Cleaver magazine.
- Book Project 2018 grad, Joan Burleson's debut memoir I Love You More-A Reluctant Memoir was named a 2025 Eric Hoffer Book Award Category Finalist, as part of the Eric Hoffer Excellence in Independent Publishing Award.
- Frances Jenner, a Book Project 2022 grad, has had good news lately, most recently that she sold her book, Sing to Me, Billy the Kid, which comes out next June. Congrats, Frances!
- Corie Rosen’s poem, “My Grandfather Recounts a Memory of the Future,” will appear in the upcoming issue of Consequence. The piece is excerpted from her second book of poems, Wildfire, which will be published September 16 of this year by Cornerstone Press/The University of Wisconsin.
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Member Book News
- Sarah Landenwich's debut novel, The Fire Concerto, was released from Union Square & Co., an imprint of Hachette, on June 10 and is on the NPR "Best New Books" Summer Reading List!
- Four years ago, Virginia Trench took an Intro to Novel workshop at Lighthouse, and a few weeks ago, her first novel of a two-book deal, Our Secrets Were Safe, was published by Crown. Huge congrats!
- Terri Lewis won the Miami University Press 2025 Novella Award for When They Came Home, and her novel Behold the Bird in Flight was published on June 3.
- Susan Bogue's novel Deep Time was published on May 6 by She Writes Press and celebrated at Tattered Cover Book Store on East Colfax. Speaking of She Writes, Wendy Correa’s memoir, My Pretty Baby comes out in November. Congrats, you two!
- Poet Rebecca Winning published a new collection, Lullaby of Love.
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Other Member Accomplishment
- Huge high fives to Catherine Traywick, who won the fiction contest at Witness for her wonderful short story (started in Jenny Shank’s folklore workshop), “Baby Killer.” Cat calls it a “modern retelling of a Filipino folk monster.”
- Jack Wolflink's short story “The Winnower” was published in Kinsman Quarterly's Iridescence Prize collection, and another story, “Tiangguis,” will be published this May at Suspect. Go Jack!
- Cotton O'Connell's short story, “The Waiting Place,” was published in the Spring 2025 issue of Southern Humanities Review.
- Pamela Hamer, a screenwriting workshopper, was awarded the 2025 Cinestory TV Fellowship for her comedy pilot Your Biggest Fan.
- Alissa Bader Clark's essay, "How to Be a Caregiver to Aging, Difficult Parents," was recently published in Open Secrets Magazine.
- Dan and Patrick McClain have been writing screenplays for years. They served as writers and producers on The Corner, along with the production company Octopi Creative, which was released on streaming this summer.
Are you a Lighthouse member with good news to share? Please let us know by filling out our Kudos form. And thanks, everyone, for keeping us inspired!
Yours in Writing,
Lighthouse
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