Fiction:
Patrick Cottrell, debut author of Sorry to Disrupt the Peace (Read The Millions‘ interview with Cottrell);
Brontez Purnell, author of Since I Laid My Burden Down
Weike Wang, debut author of Chemistry
Nonfiction:
Esmé Weijun Wang, author of the forthcoming The Collected Schizophrenias (Wang’s a Year in Reading alum)
Nonfiction/Poetry:
Anne Boyer, author of Garments Against Women
Poetry:
Rickey Laurentiis, author of Boy with Thorn (Laurentiis’s work was featured in our literary Lent reader)
Tommy Pico, author of IRL (our review of Pico’s book-length poem)
Drama:
Nathan Alan Davis, playwright of Nat Turner in Jerusalem
Hansol Jung, playwright of Cardboard Piano
Antoinette Nwandu, playwright of Pass Over