Fairleigh Dickinson University MFA faculty Jeffery Renard Allen's Song of the Shank (Graywolf Press) has been nominated for the International Dublin Literary Award 2016 (formerly IMPAC). Congratulation, Jeffrey!
Jeffery Renard Allen is the author of the story collection, Holding Pattern (Graywolf), and the novel, Rails Under My Back (Farrar, Straus and...
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Tracey Michae'l Lewis-Giggetts' Black characters are still revolutionary: writers talk about the complexity of race was recently published at The Guardian.
"Is success defined only by whether black writers write about race? Or, is there room for a diversity of stories that don’t necessarily align with race issues?"
This Fairleigh...
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Congratulations Fiction faculty Jeffery Renard Allen! Song of the Shank is a finalist for the 2015 Pen/Faulkner Award. Check out more here....
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Fiction faculty and Song of the Shank author Jeffery Renard Allen will be reading on the Fairleigh Dickinson Florham Campus on Wednesday, February 18th at 4 p.m. in The Orangerie, located in The Monninger Center....
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12th Street Journal Online is having its 2014-2015 launch on December 2 at 7 pm at Barnes & Noble Union Square in NYC. Fiction faculty Jeffery Renard Allen will be amongst the readers. Click here to find out more about attending this event....
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Congratulations Fiction faculty member Jeffery Renard Allen! Allen's novel Song of the Shank is listed amongst Kirkus Reviews' Best Books of 2014....
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Check out the interview in Kweli Journal of Jeffery Renard Allen here. A. Naomi Jackson asks Jeff all about his new novel, Song of the Shank....
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