Te Punga Somerville’s first poetry collection, Always Italicise: How to write while colonised, has won the Mary and Peter Biggs Award for Poetry of the 2023 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.

Congratulations to Professor Emerita Eva-Marie Kröller on winning a 2023-2024 Harry Ransom Center Fellowship! The Ransom Center Fellowship Program supports onsite use of the Ransom Center collections, which spans literature, performing arts, film, photography, and art. Dr. Kröller will pursue a project entitled "Thomas B. Costain: A Canadian-American Career in Publishing and Authorship." Learn more in this announcement from the Ransom Centre.

A century before Michelle Yeoh became the first Asian woman to win an Oscar for Best Actress, Winnifred Eaton, the daughter of a Chinese mother and a white English father, was working behind the scenes in Hollywood. Read this piece by Dr. Mary Chapman and PhD Candidate Sydney Lines, published in The Conversation.