IWP Advisory Committee

Hualing Nieh Engle IWP Co-Founder, Fiction USA	Rhustom Barucha Dramaturgy, Nonfiction India	Edward Carey Fiction United Kingdom
Lan Samantha Chang Fiction USA	Bei Dao Poetry China	Ferida Durakovic Poetry Bosnia
Natasa Durovicova Editor, translator USA	Ed Folsom Professor of English USA	Helon Habila Fiction, Nonfiction Nigeria
Robin Hemley Nonfiction USA	Ilya Kaminsky Poetry USA/Russia	Eddin Khoo Poetry Translation Malaysia
Marzanna Kielar Poetry Poland	Maksym Kurochkin Playwriting Russia	Roberta Levitow Drama/Theatre USA
Minae Mizumura Fiction Japan	Charles Mulekwa Playwriting Uganda	Charles Simic Poetry, Essays, Translation USA
Cole Swensen Poetry USA	Downing Thomas Dean, International Programs USA	Etienne van Heerden Fiction South Africa
Eliot Weinberger Non-fiction, Translation USA

Upcoming Events

Marking May as the “Short Story Month,” Words Without Borders highlights some of its stellar past publications, the Dagestani-Russian novelist Alisa Ganieva’s bitterly comic “A Village Feast” among them.
Ilya Kaminsky’s informed and elegant preface to Kiss the Eyes of Peace, a new selection of Tomaž Šalamun’s poems from 1964-2014, is excerpted on today’s LitHub.
Raoul DeJong, in Jake Goldwasser’s translation, on the literary politics of Surinamese Netherlands, in the most recent issue of Words Without Borders.
The Spring 2024 issue of Michigan Quarterly Review features writing by Kwame Dawes and Géhanne-Amira Khalfallah.
Our congratulations to Fall Residency alumni Sebastian Barry and Mircea Cărtărescu, both of whom appear on this year's Dublin Literary Award shortlist.