Written Arts News
Bard Fiction Prize Winner Eliza Barry Callahan to Give Reading on October 5
Eliza Barry Callahan will give a public reading on campus as part of her ongoing residency at Bard during the fall 2026 semester. Callahan’s reading takes place at 5:30pm on Monday, October 5, in the Reem Kayden Center’s Lászlo Z. Bitó ’60 Auditorium. The reading is free and open to the public. Callahan received the Bard Fiction Prize following the publication of her debut novel, The Hearing Test (Catapult Books, 2024).
Bard Fiction Prize Winner Eliza Barry Callahan to Give Reading on October 5
Eliza Barry Callahan. Photo by E. Josey
Callahan received the Bard Fiction Prize following the publication of her debut novel, The Hearing Test (Catapult Books, 2024). The novel’s narrator, an artist in her late twenties, awakens one morning with Sudden Deafness, an unexplained condition of hearing loss. “As the unnamed narrator navigates a medical labyrinth hoping to cure her abrupt hearing loss, she thinks: she thinks about sound, she thinks about silence, she thinks about noise, signal, and music, and the ranges between them,” the Bard Fiction Prize committee wrote last year when announcing Callahan’s award. “It is a novel of ideas, in which the ideas are not decorative elements or passengers in the vehicle but the story’s essential characters, the active agents driving the narrative.”
Callahan is a writer and filmmaker from New York, NY. The Hearing Test was a finalist for the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award and longlisted for Carol Shields Prize for Fiction. Her fiction and writing about art have appeared in The Paris Review, Bomb, frieze, and The Drift. Her 20-minute directorial debut, The Non-Actor, premiered at Toronto International Film Festival and at International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2025. She was a 2023 New York Foundation of The Arts Fellow and currently teaches a seminar on artist writings and ekphrasis at Columbia University.
Presented each October since 2001, the Bard Fiction Prize continues the college’s longstanding position as a center for creative, groundbreaking literary work by both faculty and students. The prize is intended to encourage and support young writers of fiction, and provide them with an opportunity to work in a fertile intellectual environment. Callahan will work on her second novel while at Bard this fall.
Post Date: 09-17-2026
Bard College Professor Jenny Xie Selected for 2026 Howard Foundation Fellowship
Xie’s fellowship in the category of Poetry is one of 14 fellowships awarded by the foundation this year.
Bard College Professor Jenny Xie Selected for 2026 Howard Foundation Fellowship
Jenny Xie, assistant professor of written arts.
During her fellowship, Xie will receive $40,000 in unrestricted funds to devote her time to researching, developing, and writing her third poetry collection, Dead Time, which delves into forms of directionless time, or time untroubled by plot and by imperatives of action. Xie is the author of two other collections of poetry. Eye Level (2018) was a finalist for the National Book Award, and the recipient of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets and the Holmes National Poetry Prize from Princeton University. The Rupture Tense (2022) was a finalist for the National Book Award and the CLMP Firecracker Award, and a recipient of the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award. Xie has also been supported by fellowships and grants from Civitella Ranieri Foundation, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Kundiman, New York Foundation for the Arts, the Vilcek Foundation, and the Jerome Foundation.
The Howard Foundation is an independent agency administered at Brown University. Established in 1954, it awards annual, unrestricted fellowships to promising individuals in selected artistic and academic fields. Past fellows have authored bestsellers, directed Oscar nominated feature-length films, and earned some of the world’s most prestigious honors including Pulitzer Prizes, the Rome Prize, and the Whiting Award. For more information, visit howard-foundation.brown.edu.
Post Date: 06-04-2026
Jenny Offill Receives Dora Maar House Residency
The residency is awarded to outstanding arts and humanities professionals.
Jenny Offill Receives Dora Maar House Residency
Jenny Offill, writer in residence.
The Written Arts Program at Bard encourages students to experiment with their writing in a context sensitive to intellectual, historical, and social realities. Students are encouraged to consider writing as an act of critical and creative engagement, a way of interrogating and translating the world.
Post Date: 04-15-2026
Upcoming Events
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9/23Wednesday11:00 am – 11:10 am EDT/GMT-4
Massena Campus
Opening Remarks, Abundant Intelligences: Jason Edward Lewis
We hope you will join us on the land for an afternoon of symposiums and learning.
Wednesday, September 23, 2026Wíhanble S’a Center’s Spring Open House at the Massena Campus is a bi-yearly event for all of our Bard community that brings together collaborations with nonhuman beings through hide work, shared meals, and conversation on the land. We are an American Indian-led research center grounded in Lakota knowledge systems, where learning happens through relation, responsibility, and community. These practices form the root of our approach to developing ethical AI tools, grounding rigorous technological research in land-based knowledge.
11:00 am – 11:10 am EDT/GMT-4
Massena Campus
Our Open House supports our college community by providing structured student training and a site for faculty engagement with Wíhanble S’a Center’s ongoing initiatives, including, but not limited to, the development of Lakota Dream Language, a neuro-AI storytelling platform that enables interactive exploration of dream narratives.
This year’s events center on a symposium with scholars and artists who consider present-day realities of technological entwinement within the context of Indigenous methodologies and advance new modes of ethical engagement. Fall 2026 features practitioners such as Nathan Young, Antoine Bellamare, Mikhel Proulx, Olivia Camfield, Wills Brewer, Bradley Dry, Asinnajaq, and more.
Contact: Macaella Gray
Phone: 512-547-8233
E-mail: [email protected]
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9/23Wednesday11:10 am – 11:30 am EDT/GMT-4
Massena Campus
Meaning Making and Unknowability: Suzanne Kite
We hope you will join us on the land for an afternoon of symposiums and learning.
Wednesday, September 23, 2026Wíhanble S’a Center’s Spring Open House at the Massena Campus is a bi-yearly event for all of our Bard community that brings together collaborations with nonhuman beings through hide work, shared meals, and conversation on the land. We are an American Indian-led research center grounded in Lakota knowledge systems, where learning happens through relation, responsibility, and community. These practices form the root of our approach to developing ethical AI tools, grounding rigorous technological research in land-based knowledge.
11:10 am – 11:30 am EDT/GMT-4
Massena Campus
Our Open House supports our college community by providing structured student training and a site for faculty engagement with Wíhanble S’a Center’s ongoing initiatives, including, but not limited to, the development of Lakota Dream Language, a neuro-AI storytelling platform that enables interactive exploration of dream narratives.
This year’s events center on a symposium with scholars and artists who consider present-day realities of technological entwinement within the context of Indigenous methodologies and advance new modes of ethical engagement. Fall 2026 features practitioners such as Nathan Young, Antoine Bellamare, Mikhel Proulx, Olivia Camfield, Wills Brewer, Bradley Dry, Asinnajaq, and more.
Contact: Macaella Gray
Phone: 512-547-8233
E-mail: [email protected]
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9/23Wednesday11:30 am – 12:15 pm EDT/GMT-4
Massena Campus
Transformations through Image: Olivia Camfield, Woodrow Hunt, Schon Duncan, and assinijaq
We hope you will join us on the land for an afternoon of symposiums and learning.
Wednesday, September 23, 2026Wíhanble S’a Center’s Spring Open House at the Massena Campus is a bi-yearly event for all of our Bard community that brings together collaborations with nonhuman beings through hide work, shared meals, and conversation on the land. We are an American Indian-led research center grounded in Lakota knowledge systems, where learning happens through relation, responsibility, and community. These practices form the root of our approach to developing ethical AI tools, grounding rigorous technological research in land-based knowledge.
11:30 am – 12:15 pm EDT/GMT-4
Massena Campus
Our Open House supports our college community by providing structured student training and a site for faculty engagement with Wíhanble S’a Center’s ongoing initiatives, including, but not limited to, the development of Lakota Dream Language, a neuro-AI storytelling platform that enables interactive exploration of dream narratives.
This year’s events center on a symposium with scholars and artists who consider present-day realities of technological entwinement within the context of Indigenous methodologies and advance new modes of ethical engagement. Fall 2026 features practitioners such as Nathan Young, Antoine Bellamare, Mikhel Proulx, Olivia Camfield, Wills Brewer, Bradley Dry, Asinnajaq, and more.
Contact: Macaella Gray
Phone: 512-547-8233
E-mail: [email protected]
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9/23Wednesday2:30 pm – 3:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Massena Campus
Paper Presentation: Nathan Young
We hope you will join us on the land for an afternoon of symposiums and learning.
Wednesday, September 23, 2026Wíhanble S’a Center’s Spring Open House at the Massena Campus is a bi-yearly event for all of our Bard community that brings together collaborations with nonhuman beings through hide work, shared meals, and conversation on the land. We are an American Indian-led research center grounded in Lakota knowledge systems, where learning happens through relation, responsibility, and community. These practices form the root of our approach to developing ethical AI tools, grounding rigorous technological research in land-based knowledge.
2:30 pm – 3:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Massena Campus
Our Open House supports our college community by providing structured student training and a site for faculty engagement with Wíhanble S’a Center’s ongoing initiatives, including, but not limited to, the development of Lakota Dream Language, a neuro-AI storytelling platform that enables interactive exploration of dream narratives.
This year’s events center on a symposium with scholars and artists who consider present-day realities of technological entwinement within the context of Indigenous methodologies and advance new modes of ethical engagement. Fall 2026 features practitioners such as Nathan Young, Antoine Bellamare, Mikhel Proulx, Olivia Camfield, Wills Brewer, Bradley Dry, Asinnajaq, and more.
Contact: Macaella Gray
Phone: 512-547-8233
E-mail: [email protected]
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9/23Wednesday3:00 pm – 3:45 pm EDT/GMT-4
Massena Campus
Transformations through Materials: Mikayla Patton, Scott Benesiinaabandan, Wills Brewer, and Clementine Bordeaux
We hope you will join us on the land for an afternoon of symposiums and learning.
Wednesday, September 23, 2026Wíhanble S’a Center’s Spring Open House at the Massena Campus is a bi-yearly event for all of our Bard community that brings together collaborations with nonhuman beings through hide work, shared meals, and conversation on the land. We are an American Indian-led research center grounded in Lakota knowledge systems, where learning happens through relation, responsibility, and community. These practices form the root of our approach to developing ethical AI tools, grounding rigorous technological research in land-based knowledge.
3:00 pm – 3:45 pm EDT/GMT-4
Massena Campus
Our Open House supports our college community by providing structured student training and a site for faculty engagement with Wíhanble S’a Center’s ongoing initiatives, including, but not limited to, the development of Lakota Dream Language, a neuro-AI storytelling platform that enables interactive exploration of dream narratives.
This year’s events center on a symposium with scholars and artists who consider present-day realities of technological entwinement within the context of Indigenous methodologies and advance new modes of ethical engagement. Fall 2026 features practitioners such as Nathan Young, Antoine Bellamare, Mikhel Proulx, Olivia Camfield, Wills Brewer, Bradley Dry, Asinnajaq, and more.
Contact: Macaella Gray
Phone: 512-547-8233
E-mail: [email protected]