Deepa Rajagopalan (2021 winner) had a very busy year following the triumph of her debut short story collection, Peacocks of Instagram, which was shortlisted for the @gillerprize.bsky.social.
Now, after her appearances at the San Miguel Writers Conference in Mexico and Imagination festival in Quebec City, you can catch her next leading a workshop at the @writersdigest.bsky.social Short Story Writing Virtual Conference.
This spring, Jaclyn Desforges (2018 winner) completed teaching her first poetry class at Wilfrid Laurier University.
While she looks forward to her 2026 debut short story collection, Weird Babies, her poetry was recently published in two anthologies and she has begun writing her first novel.
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While she looks forward to her 2026 debut short story collection, Weird Babies, her poetry was recently published in two anthologies and she has begun writing her first novel.
She workshopped an excerpt of this book when she attended the Middlebury Bread Loaf Writers' Conference last August.
And this summer, she’ll attend a workshop in Paris, France, where she'll be working with Ramona Ausubel.
The award celebrates a new book of poetry by a League member.