2025 Qtr 1 WW News Archives | Community of Writers

Tim Wendel

Writers Workshops Participant, '86, '87, '88, '89

Rebel Falls by Tim Wendel captured the 2025 W.Y. Boyd Literary Award for excellence in military fiction. The book was published by Three Hills, an imprint of Cornell University Press. The Boyd Award honors the best American military fiction set in a period when the United States was at war.
“Rebel Falls is a riveting novel set during the American Civil War,” the ALA says. “The book was inspired by true stories of female spies who risked everything for the Union cause.” More info here.

Cathy Wang

Writers Workshops Participant '19

Cathy Wang is featured in Issue 43 of KHÔRA. Her piece, “The Shape of Hope,” is published under her pen name “Cathy Lue-W.” More info here.

Andrew Roe

Writers Workshops Participant, ’97, ’04

Andrew Roe’s short fiction has been recently published in Story, Wigleaf, MoonPark Review, and Pithead Chapel. More info here.

Freeman Ng

Writers Workshops Participant, '19

Bridge Across The Sky, Freeman Ng’s verse novel based on the Chinese immigration experience through Angel Island, won the National Consortium For Teaching About Asia’s 2024 Freeman Award (name correspondence entirely coincidental!) for Young Adult/High School literature. More info here.

Jessica Danger

Writers Workshop Participant, '17

Jessica Danger was recently named the Nonfiction Alumni Fellowship at Bennington College (Winter 2025) and was selected as a nonfiction mentor in The Adroit Journal Summer Mentorship program for Summer of 2025. Danger also has a forthcoming publication, due out in May 2026 with Santa Fe Writers Project, titled No Heroic Measures: A Memoir. More info here.

Tim Foley

Writers Workshops Participant, '01, '02

Tim Foley’s collection of ghost stories, Tales Nocturnal, has been published by PS Publishing, UK. More info here.

Dave Essinger

Writers Workshops Participant, '09

Dave Essinger’s second novel, This World and the Next, was released from Main Street Rag Publishing Company in 2024. “Some fiction feels so real it is astonishing. This book is like that. …it almost felt like it could have been tracking real events.” -Vick Mickunas

More info here.

Attended with the help of a LoJo Foundation Scholarship

Sarah Perrin

Writers Workshops Participant, ’24

Sarah Perrin’s short story “Just Girls” won the 2025 DISQUIET Literary Prize for fiction and will be published in Granta. More info here.

Attended with the help of A Ruth Nyswander Del Duca Memorial Scholarship

Daniel Pope

Writers Workshops Participant, '19, '21, '23

Daniel Pope has won the 2024 University of New Orleans Press Publishing Lab Prize! His winning manuscript, Go Help Yourself, is set for publication in Spring 2026.

A gripping exploration of obsession and loneliness in the vein of Gabe Habash’s Stephen Florida with the sharp comic edge of Gabriel Smith’s Brat, Go Help Yourself examines the American fascination with self-help, pop psychology, and compulsive dieting through the poignant lens of a troubled mother-son relationship.

Sue Repko

Writers Workshops Participant, '05

Sue Repko’s essay “What To Do With The Bodies” appeared in The Manifest Station in February 2025. More info here. More info here.

Diane Tober

Writers Workshop Participant, '05

Diane Tober’s new book, Eggonomics: The Global Market in Human Eggs and the Donors Who Supply Them, was awarded the Carol R. Ember Book Prize by the Society for Anthropological Sciences (SAS). The SAS Carol R. Ember Book Prize recognizes books whose significant theoretical, empirical, or methodological contributions to anthropology embody the mission of SAS to advance the scientific study of human societies.

“Dr. Tober’s eye-opening exposé on the treatment of egg donors is a much-needed challenge to the hearts-and-flowers narrative that relies on exploitative, harmful practices to fuel the ready supply of eggs to desperate infertile recipients.” Liz Scheier, author of Never Simple: A Memoir.

More info here.

Janet Constantino

Writers Workshop Participant, '08, '09, '11, '12

Janet Constantino’s debut novel, Becoming Mariella, will be released on February 4, 2025. The novel is published by SheWrites Press and is distributed by Simon & Schuster. Ms. Constantino won 2nd prize in the MFK Fisher Last House Writing Contest, for an excerpt from Becoming Mariella. More info here.

Ann Graham

Writers Workshops Participant, ‘08

Ann Graham’s short story, “Sparkle and Shine,” was published by Muleskinner Journal, Another Twist of Fate issue. More info here.