Literature

FILTER EVENTS

News, Ideas, & Events

Literature

Announcing the Longlist for the 2023 Aspen Words Literary Prize

The 14 titles include seven fiction debuts and five short story collections.

BY Aspen Words

Blog Post

12.12.2022
Literature

Dawnie Walton Wins the Aspen Words Literary Prize

The book follows the rise of an interracial rock duo in the 1970s, their sensational breakup, and the secrets unearthed decades later.

BY Aspen Words

Blog Post

04.22.2022
Literature

Reckoning with America’s History of Slavery

Writer and scholar Clint Smith takes a close look at the mechanisms and consequences of those distortions in his new book, “How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning With the History of Slavery Across America.”

BY Aspen Ideas to Go

Podcast

04.13.2022
Literature

Meet the 2022 Aspen Words Emerging Writer Fellows

Fellowships are available in fiction, memoir, narrative nonfiction, poetry, and middle-grade genres.

BY Aspen Words

Blog Post

03.14.2022
Literature

5 Books That Connect Our Past, Present, and Future

Aspen Words announced the shortlist for the Aspen Words Literary Prize, an annual award for fiction that illuminates social issues.

BY Aspen Words

Blog Post

02.28.2022
Literature

Hala Ayan on Art as Activism

Her new novel The Arsonists’ City is nominated for the 2022 Aspen Words Literary Prize.

BY Aspen Words

Blog Post

02.24.2022
Literature

Omar El Akkad Thinks of Fiction Writing as a Superpower

His novel What Strange Paradise is a nominee for the 2022 Aspen Words Literary Prize.

BY Aspen Words

Blog Post

02.16.2022
Literature

Karen Tucker Writes Stories About Hunger, Longing, and Survival

Her book Bewilderness is a nominee for the 2022 Aspen Words Literary Prize.

BY Aspen Words

Blog Post

02.09.2022
Literature

Dawnie Walton Dreams Up Her Black Musical Ancestors

Her novel The Final Revival of Opal and Nev is nominated for the 2022 Aspen Words Literary Prize.

BY Aspen Words

Blog Post

02.02.2022
Load More