61st Glendon and Kathryn Swarthout Awards Ceremony
Event description
- Arts and entertainment
- Campus life
- Free
- Open to the public
- Professional and career development
The Creative Writing Program in the Department of English at ASU invites all to celebrate the winners of the 61st annual Glendon and Kathryn Swarthout Awards in Writing on Thursday, Apr. 20, 2023 from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the University Club on ASU's Tempe campus. The ceremony will feature introductions by our esteemed 2023 contest judges, Ramona Ausubel and John Murillo, followed by short readings by award-winners.
A reception will follow the awards ceremony.
About this year's judges
Ramona Ausubel's fifth book, "The Last Animal," a novel, will be out in April 2023 from Riverhead Books. Her previous books are "Awayland: Stories," "Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty," "A Guide to Being Born" and "No One is Here Except All of Us." She is the recipient of the PEN/USA Fiction Award, the Cabell First Novelist Award and has been a finalists for both the California and Colorado Book Awards and the New York Public Library Young Lions Award. Her work has been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Paris Review daily, One Story, Tin House, The Oxford American, Ploughshares and elsewhere. She is a professor at Colorado State University and has taught at Bennington,Tin House, Writing by Writers, the Community of Writers, Bread Loaf Environmental Conference and elsewhere. She lives in Boulder, Colorado with her family.
John Murillo is the author of the poetry collections, "Up Jump the Boogie" and "Kontemporary Amerikan Poetry." His honors include the 2021 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, the Four Quartets Prize from the Academy of American Poets and the TS Eliot Foundation, two Pushcart Prizes, the J Howard and Barbara MJ Wood Prize from the Poetry Foundation, fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Cave Canem Foundation, and the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, and inclusion in Best American Poetry 2017, 2019 and 2020. He is an associate professor of English at Wesleyan University.
Image of Ramona Ausubel credit Beowulf Sheehan / Courtesy photo of John Murillo / Image of Kathryn and Glendon Swarthout courtesy of the Swarthout Family.
