Did you know that BookEnds has an endowment campaign running? Between now and March 31, 2025, you can donate to the Founders’ Fund to ensure that this visionary program will continue to cultivate the next generation of literary voices, who will redefine the landscape of contemporary fiction and carry forward the standards of craft and camaraderie so foundational to this immersive program. Alumni cohorts, be sure to check your email for details on our fun cohort challenge!
We are delighted to announce that 2022 Fellow Giano Cromley’s BookEnds novel American Mythology is forthcoming with Doubleday on July 15, 2025! You can preorder online and/or through your favorite bookstore—or at Giano’s favorite bookstore, This House of Books in Billings, MT.
2023 Fellow Miranda Shulman’s BookEnds novel Harmless is forthcoming with Dutton in Spring 2026.
2021 Fellow Rachel León’s BookEnds novel How We See the Gray will be published at Curbstone in Spring 2026. Rachel was also named Managing Director of The Chicago Review of Books this year, and is at work on editing a volume of essays for Belt Publishing.
2021 Fellow Marian Mitchell Donahue’s BookEnds novel Backstitch is coming out with Galiot Press in Spring 2026.
2023 Fellow Kelly Anderson’s BookEnds novel The Wild Beneath will be published by Park Row Books and Harper Canada, with foreign rights acquired in nine other countries.
Yet another BookEnds novel is newly under contract as of this week and will be announced soon, while several other BookEnds novels are represented by agents and out on submission—so we expect much more happy news to come! Fellows from our recent and incoming cohorts have also signed with agents over the past months.
Further honors and doings:
2020 Fellow April Darcy was awarded first place at the Tucson Festival of Books Literary Awards for fiction, and she will make an appearance at the festival for a panel called “Tomorrow’s Bestsellers Today.”
2019 Fellow Kathleen Gibbons will be in residence at Hedgebrook in summer 2025. Several of the stories in her BookEnds project, a linked story collection, have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes.
2023 Fellow Suzanne LaFetra is currently in residence at the Virginia Center for Creative Arts.
BookEnds alums are also busy and active in their communities, with new works in progress; supporting one another through daily and weekly Zoom writing sessions; giving each other advice, feedback and support on query letters and the query process; and—of course—through our BookEnds blog.
We look forward to bringing you more great news soon. To learn more about BookEnds, check out our Fall 2024 Open House!