News | Tarpaulin Sky Press

TS AUTHORS AND THE TROUBLE THEY CAUSE

News | Tarpaulin Sky Press

TS AUTHORS AND THE TROUBLE THEY CAUSE

Tarpaulin Sky author Steven Dunn wins Whiting Award!

We're absolutely over the friggin moon to announce that Steven Dunn, author of Potted Meat and Water & Power, both from Tarpaulin Sky Press, has won a Whiting Award for Fiction. The $50,000 award is "based on early accomplishment and the promise of great work to come." Indeed!

The Rumpus reviews Lauren Russell’s Descent

"Descent is a book about identity, about family—and a book about Black women and their erasure. How they were and in some ways continue to be erased from the historical record, from positions of power. From control over their own bodies. From what can be considered beautiful or joyful." -- Jesi Buell, The Rumpus

Piper J. Daniels’s “Ladies Lazarus” reviewed at VIDA

"Ladies Lazarus is an unapologetic work, so bitch and bad-ass, in the ways it uses beauty as a creative principle and transgressive force. It is the beauty that allows us to transform our shames into something usable...." -- Arisa White, VIDA

Tarpaulin Sky author Jennifer S. Cheng awarded NEA Fellowship!

We are thrilled to announce that Jennifer S. Cheng -- author of Moon: Letters, Maps, Poems, from Tarpaulin Sky Press -- has been awarded a $25,000 Creative Writing Fellowship in Poetry, from the National Endowment of the Arts. We'd like to congratulate all the other winners as well -- with a special nod to TS Magazine contributor Kiki Petrosino!

Tarpaulin Sky author Steven Dunn wins Whiting Award!

We're absolutely over the friggin moon to announce that Steven Dunn, author of Potted Meat and Water & Power, both from Tarpaulin Sky Press, has won a Whiting Award for Fiction. The $50,000 award is "based on early accomplishment and the promise of great work to come." Indeed!

The Rumpus reviews Lauren Russell’s Descent

"Descent is a book about identity, about family—and a book about Black women and their erasure. How they were and in some ways continue to be erased from the historical record, from positions of power. From control over their own bodies. From what can be considered beautiful or joyful." -- Jesi Buell, The Rumpus

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