Please join Persea Books on Zoom at 6:30pm EDT / 5:30pm CDT on Tuesday, April 14, with a celebratory drink in hand, for a reading by soon-to-be Civitellian Sara Wainscott to launch the publication of her dazzling book Insecurity System, winner of the 2019 Lexi...
Ben Goldberg (CRF 2017) began recording a new song every day while in quarantine; his new album called PLAGUE DIARY is available for a free listen on Bandcamp.
Heidi Julavits (CRF 2014) writes on her recent trip to Italy for the New York Times. She writes, “I wasn’t planning to be on vacation in a pandemic. It changed the way I’ll think about risk forever.” Read the full article here.
The 2020 Walt Whitman Award winner was announced this morning as Threa Almontaser. Threa will receive a 2021 Civitella Ranieri Fellowship thanks to our affiliated fellowship with the Academy of American Poets. Congratulations, Threa!
Ali Cobby Eckermann (CRF 2019) “had $47 in the bank and was living in a caravan when she found out, in March 2017, that she’d won the world’s richest literary prize, the Windham Campbell. Administered by Yale University, judged anonymously and not open to...
As Creative Capital asserts, “In times of crisis, artists are often among those most affected.” For all US based/American Civitellians, we hope you’ll be able to find some useful resources on this list of arts-related COVID-19 resources:...
