Congratulations, Uche! Honored to have worked on A KIND OF MADNESS w/ Tin House! Publishers Weekly said it best: 'Okonkwo has a Chekhovian eye for the tangle of internal motivations & assumptions that steer her characters....Readers will be eager for more of [her] artful writing.

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Here's what 2024 Dublin Literary Award judge Chris Morash had to say about Jonathan Escoffery's If I Survive You:

'Escoffery blurs the lines between the short story and the novel in a work that brings us into the lives of Jamaican-Americans in Miami.'

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Stowe Story Labs is pleased to announce the Stowe Story Labs $50,000 Short Film Production Grant in partnership with PAGE Awards. Stowe will award a $50,000 administered grant to support the production of a short film. Learn more and apply here: bit.ly/3IAH72i

It's been amazing to see so much coverage in the media both nationally and internationally since our Shortlist announcement last week! ✨🙏

🏆 The 2024 Dublin Literary Award winner will be announced on Thursday 23rd May.

Find out more: dublinliteraryaward.ie

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الكاتب الأميركي من أصل جامايكي جوناثان إيسكوفري Jonathan Escoffery في حوار مع #المجلة أجرته نسرين البخشونجي Nesrein El-Bakhshawangy / نسرين البخشونجى: كل شخص أسود في أميركا يواجه العنصرية في وقت…

Introducing the 2024 Shortlisted authors - Jonathan Escoffery ✨

Jonathan Escoffery is the recipient of the 2020 Plimpton Prize for Fiction, a 2020 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship, and the 2020 ASME Award for Fiction.

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IF I SURVIVE YOU by Jonathan Escoffery has been shortlisted for the 2024 Dublin Literary Award! IF I SURVIVE YOU will be available in paperback on April 2nd. Preorder your copy today! Congratulations Jonathan, from all of us at M&S! 🎉

Have you checked out the books on this year's Shortlist yet? 👀✨

Yesterday we announced the 6 books on the shortlist of the 2024 Dublin Literary Award, the world’s most valuable annual prize for a single work of fiction.

Find out more: dublinliteraryaward.ie/the-library/pr…

Jonathan Escoffery on Dublin International Literary Award 2024 shortlist
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All my appreciation & thanks to the nominating librarians and the judges ❤️❤️❤️

You know why nobody “wants” to read story collections? It’s because the publishing industry has convinced those readers they shouldn’t “want” to read them.

I’ve read more short stories that have had more emotional impact on me than novels. Just saying.

'We are all expected to be a Fearless Girl in a lot of respects, which is probably why the statue, and the story behind her creation, elicited a visceral reaction in me.' - writes Yvonne Conza in this essay for us. damemagazine.com/2024/03/21/wev…

Thank you, Isabelle Dupuy and writersmosaic for this very thoughtful and insightful review 🙏🏽

FRI at 9AM PT w/Alexis C. Madrigal:

We're speaking with poet Mimi Tempestt, UC Berkeley's G. Cristina Mora, author Jonathan Escoffery and singer ıɥsɐq ıɥsıʞ about Night of Ideas, an annual public event bringing together artists and thinkers at the San Francisco Public Library.

Happy paperback publication day Jonathan Escoffery!

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 BOOKER PRIZE

‘Dazzling’ GUARDIAN

‘Blistering’ THE TIMES

'A delight' DIANA EVANS

‘Fiction written at the highest level’ ANN PATCHETT

'Hilarious, revelatory' MARLON JAMES

Tuesday tidings! Tune in this morning for guest host Christina Greer's Book Club featuring authors Natasha S. Alford, Clay Cane, Tanisha C. Ford 🧚🏾‍♀️ & Jonathan Escoffery!

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From our only nominating library in Jamaica, please welcome If I Survive You by Jonathan Escoffery! Nominated by Jamaica Library Service, it's published by MCD⨯FSG, McClelland & Stewart & PenguinRandomHouseCA.

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