In BON magazine, the two Whiting winners discuss queer Asian American identity and why all novelists should try writing poetry. 

Brooklyn Magazine calls Hunter’s play about a church group headed to the Middle East “exquisite.”

LaValle talks about the black “eccentrics” who made him feel less alone as a child, Christianity's impact on his horror-writing, and asks, "What makes a monster?" 

For Narrative’s Halloween-themed series, Levin tells the tale of a haunting raven that “pecked and pecked.”

McCraney talks about drawing courage from recently released film Moonlight, based on McCraney’s own un-produced play In Midnight Black Boys Look Blue.

Levin discusses the influence of climate change on her latest collection Banana Palace, and the idea of poetry as prophetic. 

In a new poem, featured on Poetry Daily, Levin explores the consciousness of misunderstood character Dmitry Itskov, who wonders, “What is the brain? What is consciousness?/ It contains plenty of terrifying, brink-of-extinction plot twists.”

Literary blog The Volta says Choi’s latest collection “defies genre” and praises Choi’s ability to capture “a grief that is both chaotic and quiet” in her depiction of the speaker’s father. 

For Harper’s, Offutt discusses growing up in Appalachia, a place where “mainstream society acknowledges our presence primarily as the butt of jokes,” and contemplates the new political implications of the white underclass.

In Sinking City, Hannah Dela Cruz Abrams ponders the arts of creation and destruction, reflecting, “sometimes tiredness feels like despair,/ and other times it can feel like gladdening.”