2025 Joyce Carol Oates Prize Winner Jennine Capó Crucet on the importance of the arts for our humanity.

Why support NewLit's mission? Hear from 2023 Joyce Carol Oates Prize Winner Manuel Muñoz.

Why support NewLit? Hear from Manuel Muñoz, 2023 Joyce Carol Oates Prize Winner and one of our newest board members.

"Every book on your shelf is a reminder of how vast the human imagination is." —2025 Joyce Carol Oates Prize Winner Jennine Capó Crucet.

Checkout the 2026 Longlist for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize. New Literary Project is in the news. Thank you, Kirkus. www.kirkusreviews.com/news-and-fea...

Announcing the 2026 Longlist for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize. Learn more. www.newliteraryproject.org/whats-new/20...

Congratulations to 2025 Jack Hazard Fellow Kristin Collier on the publication of What Debt Demands: Family, Betrayal, and Precarity in a Broken System by Kristin Collier. Copyright © 2025. Available from Grand Central Publishing, an imprint of Hachette Book Group

The NewLit Roadshow is here. Track our week's events with 2025 Joyce Carol Oates Prize Winners Jennine Capó Crucet & Willy Vlautin. www.newliteraryproject.org/events

Join us as we celebrate 10 years of supporting the literary arts and arts education. Learn more about NewLit's Roadshow. Come, meet the 2025 Joyce Carol Oates Prize Winners Jennine Capó Crucet and Willy Vlautin. Learn more at link in bio.

We'll be premiering our video documentary, SpeakOut NewLit: First Ten Years, on Nov 9. Here's a sneak peek behind the scenes. Learn more about NewLiterary Project. Link in bio.

@UCBerkeleyEnglish will present 2025 JOYCE CAROL OATES Prize Winners Jennine Capó Crucet and Willy Vlautin in conversation on the UC Berkeley campus, Wheeler Hall, Maude Fife Room, for a lively talk featuring two literary powerhouses. Free and open to the public. Thurs, Nov 6. Reception at 4pm..

Get your tickets to SpeakOut NewLit. Support Arts Education. Have fun doing it. Join us.

You're invited. Join us for SpeakOut NewLit 2025 — support arts education and have fun doing it. DJ Wonway Posibul will be spinning for the evening in a program that features 2025 JCO Prize winning authors in conversation, salsa dancing, and delectable food & wine. We need your support. Link above.

Sun, 9 Nov - SpeakOut NewLit - Join in the fun as NewLit celebrates mixing it up since 2015. DJ Wonway Posibul will be spinning for the evening in a program that features 2025 JCO Prize winning authors in conversation with 2023 JCO Prize winner Manuel Muñoz—plus, dancing and delectable food & wine.

Submissions Now Open for 2026 Joyce Carol Oates Prize The annual $50,000 Prize celebrates mid-career authors of fiction. Learn more in our Submission Guidelines available at our website.

Have you secured your tickets yet? There's still time! Just 2 days left to benefit from the Early Adopter Pricing (purchase your tickets by 9/26). CONNECT with recipients of the JOYCE CAROL OATES PRIZE, SAVOR Good Food & WINE, enjoy the DJ Wonway Posibul spinning for the evening. Don't miss it!

Better access to Arts Education. That's where we come in. We've provided 1000+ Teen Creative Writing Workshop Participants from 26 Schools access to Arts Education. Learn more about our impact: www.newliteraryproject.org/impact-report

Why NewLit? Yes, the planet needs rescuing, and people need food and housing and health care. The world needs all that and more. The world also needs the nourishment, refuge, and attention of the arts. Creativity makes us resilient. Visit us at NewLiteraryProject.org

Why support NewLit? NewLit has been mixing it up since 2015. The choice is clear. Fund the arts. As much as you can. Educate kids, support artists. Young people who are marginalized—now speaking in their own voices. That’s what helps make democracy a democracy. That’s what NewLit is doing. Join us.

At New Literary Project, we believe Arts Education lifts us all up. Support our work. See link in bio.

At New Literary Project, we drive social change and unleash artistic power. Learn more about how we support the Arts. See link in bio.

Engaging in the Arts helps us feel creative and inspired. Have you read a copy of our nationally distributed anthology, Simpsonistas? We're working on Volume 7 now. Learn more about what we do to support the arts and arts education. Link in bio.

New Literary Project is working to increase access to the Arts. Find out how. See link in bio.

Did you know 61% of American workers say, "The more creative and innovative I am at my job, the more successful I am at the workplace." (Source: Americans for the Arts). We agree that creativity breeds success. Our Jack Hazard Fellowships encourage creative writers. Learn how, see link in bio.

We believe in the Arts and Arts Education. Find out more about What We Do. New Literary Project, mixing it up since 2015. See link in bio.

At NewLit, we believe in the Arts and Arts Education. Learn more about What We Do. See link in bio.

New Literary Project. Mixing it up since 2015. Read about Our Impact and learn more about What We Do. Link in bio.

At NewLit, we believe ARTS and CULTURE improve our community. According to a new poll by Americans for the Arts, we're not alone. 86% of Americans believe arts and culture improve my community's quality of life. Learn more about what we do. See link in bio.

New Literary Project supports artists in our communities with the Jack Hazard Fellowships, providing $5,000 awards to creative writers who teach high school. Learn more about What We Do. See link in bio.

We believe in the Arts. Are we all in on Arts Education? You bet. Mixing it up since 2015. Learn more about New Literary Project and how we support Arts Education. See What We Do link in bio.

86% of the public agrees that Out-of-School Arts Education is important and should be taught outside of the classroom and in the community. Find out more about how New Literary Project supports Arts Education. Learn more about What We Do. Link in Bio.

The Arts Improve Academic Performance - 70% of Americans agree that "the arts help students perform better academically." Source: Americans for the Arts. New Literary Project, has been supporting Arts Education since 2015. Find out more about What We Do. Link in Bio.

Save the Date: Sunday, 9 Nov. Join us for Speak Out NewLit, a festival with food, music and drinks. Celebrating New Literary Project's 10th Anniversary, with our amazing community supporting arts education. Stay tuned.

Tonight at the Booksmith. Congrats to '23 Jack Hazard Fellow William Archilla on the publication of S is for.

Need something uplifting? Watch our 7-minute short documentary on the Jack Hazard Fellowship. See link in bio. The Jack Hazard Fellowship supports writers who teach high school so they can make progress on their own writing over the summer.

Meet the Winners of the 2025 JCO Prize Jennine Capó Crucet & Willy Vlautin in conversation with Joyce Carol Oates and NewLit’s Joe Di Prisco - Watch now. Link in bio.

Psst! It's our birthday today. It's been 10 years (2015 - 2025) of ... - Free Creative Writing Workshops for Young People - Fellowships for Writers who Teach - National Fiction Prizes - Annual Anthologies - The Book Club Here's to 10 more. Sign up for our newsletter to learn more. Link in bio.

Join us next Wednesday, June 4, and meet the winners of the 2025 Joyce Carol Oates Prize in conversation with Joyce Carol Oates and NewLit's Joe Di Prisco. Register with the link below. www.newliteraryproject.org/whats-new/re...

Meet the Winners of the Joyce Carol Oates Prize: Jennine Capó Crucet (Say Hello to My Little Friend) and Willy Vlautin (The Horse) in conversation with Joyce Carol Oates and NewLit's Joe Di Prisco. June 4, 4pm Pacific. Registration in Bio. @simonandschuster.bsky.social @harpercollins.bsky.social

Meet Anjoli Roy, 2025 Jack Hazard Fellow. Anjoli's project is titled Fatherland. Anjoli is a teacher at Punahou School, Honolulu, HI. Meet all of the Jack Hazard Fellows. See link in bio.

Meet Molly Olguín, 2025 Jack Hazard Fellow. Molly's project is titled The Girl is Going to Live. Molly is a teacher at The Bush School, Seattle, WA. Meet all the 2025 Jack Hazard Fellows. See link in bio.

Meet Will Ejzak, 2025 Jack Hazard Fellow. Will's project is titled The Witch . Will is a teacher at Gwendolyn Brooks College Prep Academy, Chicago, IL. Meet all of the 2025 Jack Hazard Fellows. See link in bio.

Meet Dallas Crow, a 2025 Jack Hazard Fellow. Dallas's project is titled Satie in Wyoming. Dallas is a teacher at Woodward Academy College Park, GA. Meet all of the 2025 Jack Hazard Fellows. See link in bio.

Meet Kristin Collier, a 2025 Jack Hazard Fellow. Kristin's project is titled What Debt Demands. Kristin is a teacher at St. Paul Academy and Summit School, St. Paul, MN. Meet all of the 2025 Jack Hazard Fellows. See link in bio.

Meet the 2025 Jack Hazard Fellows: pictured clockwise from top left: Kristin Collier, Dallas Crow, Will Ejzek, Anjoli Roy, and Molly Olguín. Learn all about them and their projects. See link in bio.

Jennine Capó Crucet, of North Carolina, and Willy Vlautin, of Oregon, have been named the ninth and tenth Recipients of the 2025 Joyce Carol Oates Prizes (JCO) awarded by New Literary Project (NewLit). Each receives $50,000 on the occasion of NewLit’s tenth anniversary in 2025. See link in bio.

Meet Camille Santana Considine, a 2025 Bonetti-Bell Fellow teaching a creative writing workshop at Girls Inc. of Alameda County. Camille is currently a graduate student in the English Department at UC Berkeley. Read more about our 2025 Fellows. See link in bio.

Meet Edil Hassan, a 2025 Bonetti-Bell Fellow teaching a creative writing workshop at Girls Inc. of Alameda County. Edil is the author of Dugsi Girl (Akashic Press, 2021), winner of the Cave Canem Starshine and Clay fellowship and a finalist for the Brunel African Poetry Prize. See link in bio.