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December 4, 2017 |
The editors of World Literature Today are proud to officially present our annual shortlist of Pushcart and BAE nominations for 2017. The Pushcart Prize honors the best poetry, short fiction,... -
February 20, 2017 |
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Ta-Neihisi Coates in conversation at AWP / Photo: Alexandra Goodman Armed with a printed schedule and a head full of advice, I walked boldly into my first ever AWP. I was... -
February 8, 2017 |
The World Literature Today team. From left to right: Terri Stubblefield, Jen Rickard Blair, Merleyn Bell, R.C. Davis, Michelle Johnson, Kay Blunck, Rob Vollmar and Daniel Si... -
December 1, 2016 |
Norman, Okla. – World Literature Today, the University of Oklahoma’s award-winning magazine of international literature and culture, will be honored this month with a Governor’s Media in the... -
November 30, 2016 |
The editors of World Literature Today are pleased to announce their nominations for Pushcart Prize XLII, the annual anthology that features the best of the small-press publishing wor... -
November 28, 2016 |
In its November 2016 issue, World Literature Today honors women writers, and Barnes & Noble has responded with an unprecedented campaign to feature the magazine in all of its stores in e... -
December 4, 2015 |
News, Reviews, and Interviews Literature in translation makes up 13% of the New York Times Notable Books for 2015 list. WLT contributor Claire Messud shares her reading highlights... -
November 4, 2015 |
The following is a clip from the Colorado Academy monthly newsletter. Four students from the school were selected to attend the 2015 Neustadt Festival of International Literature and Culture. Says Hea... -
July 13, 2015 |
A Warm Welcome to WLT’s New Book Review Editor, Rob Vollmar Rob Vollmar and Marla Johnson The editors of World Literature Today each have a colored editing pencil: mine is purple, o... -
July 6, 2015 |
Last week, we said farväl to our beloved book review editor, Marla Johnson, who retired after working at World Literature Today since 1992. For more than twenty years, Marla worked (... -
June 4, 2015 |
Source: DU VideoManager On May 27, WLT celebrated the release of its May 2015 issue at a standing-room-only launch party at Denver’s Lighthouse Writers Workshop. Watch guest editors Ad... -
April 16, 2015 |
Photo by Silvestri Matteo/Unsplash April means three things: national poetry month, radiant nature, and beautiful poems inspired by it. If you know and love acclaimed naturalist writer Mary Oliver, c... -
April 14, 2015 |
Photo: H. Grunert / www.nobelprize.org When it was announced on Monday that Nobel laureate Günter Grass had passed away in Lübeck, Germany, at the age of eighty-seven, we asked... -
April 6, 2015 |
As the United States Postal Service hosts a stamp dedication event tomorrow in Washington, DC, for the release of their Maya Angelou Forever stamp, we’re delighted to share images of the new stamp as... -
April 2, 2015 |
The executive director, editors, and staff at World Literature Today at the University of Oklahoma are saddened to hear of Astrid Ivask’s death. In her time at the University of Oklahoma in... -
October 24, 2014 |
Asare is the first African writer to be awarded the biennial $25,000 Prize World Literature Today, the award-winning magazine of international literature and culture, today... -
October 10, 2014 |
News, Reviews, and Interviews French novelist Patrick Modiano has won this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature. Last week, Laila Lalami spoke to NPR about her new novel, The Moor’s... -
September 23, 2014 |
Photo by Nèg Foto Whether you’re looking for a quick escape on your midday break or a quiet lunch with that always entertaining friend, literature, this list includes five short works of fiction that... -
September 22, 2014 |A special section on post-Wende central European lit (1989–2014) Jenny Erpenbeck (Germany), an excerpt from The End of Days, tr. Susan Bernofsky Tomas V...
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May 28, 2014 |
Photos by Gil Jain / Western History Collections / The University of Oklahoma The editors and staff of World Literature Today join in mourning the passing while celebrat... -
March 5, 2014 |
We need your help! Our March 2013 cover featuring the photography of Phil Borges is competing among some very big mainstream magazines, but we're hopeful that—with your vote—we can win. Cast... -
July 16, 2013 |NEWS RELEASEFor immediate release Allyse Sanchez303-839-1415, ext. [email protected] Robert Con DavisExecutive Director, World Literature Today405-3...
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January 11, 2013 |Welcome to the first Friday Link Pool of 2013! We’ve gathered up all the fun and informative literary links we could find over the holidays (to help make up for how much we know you missed us, of cour...
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July 16, 2012 |Since the early 2000s, World Literature Today has been gingerly dipping a toe into the fast-flowing waters of the World Wide Web. In the early years, we started out by hosting a basic webs...
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