Bennington Writing Seminars faculty member Carmen Giménez Smith was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for Poetry. Her latest collection of poems, Be Recorder, was also shortlisted for a National Book Award in Poetry.

Image of America CLINTON, written by Peggy Adler ’63, won the Connecticut Society of Genealogists prize in their 32nd annual Literary Award Competition as a Genealogical Reference Publication.

WSB-TV anchor Jovita Moore ’89 was selected as an Atlanta Dream’s honoree for Women of Inspiration Night.

Alan Elyshevitz MFA ’99 won the 2019 North American Review James Hearst Poetry Prize for his poem “Bread.”

Julie Cadman-Kim ’05 won Sonora Review fiction contest.

Stephen Page MFA ’08 won the First Place Award in Poetry for the 2019 Bravura Literary Journal.

Jessica Green ’09 won the 2018 Midsouth Regional Emmy Award in the Best Video Essay category.

Tori Malcangio MFA ’14 won the Cincinnati Review Robert and Adele Schiff Fiction Prize for her story, “See What I Mean,” which appeared in The Cincinnati Review’s summer issue, 2019.

Nicolette Polek ’16 won a 2019 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award for her fiction. Polek’s short story collection, Imaginary Museums, will be published in January 2020 by Soft Skull Press.

Cape Verdean Blues, a debut collection of poetry by Shauna Barbosa MFA ’17 was a finalist for PEN America’s 2019 Open Book Award.

Bennington Writing Seminars faculty member Jill McCorkle won a 2018 Stack Award for Best Original Fiction. Her story “The Lineman” originally appeared in Ecotone magazine.