Archive: Announcements

• Job Opening: (Temporary) Lannan Center Program Manager

  Title of the position: Program Manager (Temporary) Reports to: Aminatta Forna, Director of the Lannan Center Pay rate: $30/per hour  Work Mode Designation: This position has been designated as Hybrid. Location of Job: New North 411/Hybrid Start Date: September 30, 2025 End Date: March 31, 2026 To Apply: Interested applicants, please email a cover letter […]

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• Lannan Center Director Aminatta Forna writes about the late Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o in The Guardian

  On August 12, 2025 The Guardian published "Take away our language and we will forget who we are: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o and the language of conquest" with an introduction written by Lannan Center Director

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• Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o Tribute Evening

  November 18, 2025
  7:00PM ET

  Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o (1938–2025) was an award-winning novelist, playwright, and essayist from Kenya whose novels have been translated into more than thirty languages.

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• Volha Hapeyeva and Valzhyna Mort

  April 7, 2026
  
  7:00PM ET

  Categories: 2025-2025 Readings and Talks, Announcements

• Nikki Giovanni Tribute Evening

  February 24, 2026
  
  7:00PM ET

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• Yuri Herrera

  February 10, 2026
  
  7:00PM ET

  Categories: 2025-2025 Readings and Talks, Announcements

• Jenny Offill

  January 20, 2026
  
  7:00PM ET

  Categories: 2025-2025 Readings and Talks, Announcements

• Carolyn Forché Receives an an honorary Doctor of Arts Degree from Chapman University

  "Chapman University is proud to recognize accomplished poet, author and human rights advocate, Dr. Carolyn Forché with an honorary Doctor of Arts Degree.   Through her Presidential Fellowship at C

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• Rabih Alameddine receives Bill Whitehead Lifetime Achievement Award

  Lannan Visiting Chair Rabih Alameddine has received The Publishing Triangle Awards' Bill Whitehead Lifetime Achievement Award. Alameddine was praised for his “powerful imagination on the page and

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• Lannan Visiting Lecturer Tope Folarin Publishes “The City Was All I Had” in Places Journal

  In January 2025, Lannan Visiting Lecturer Tope Folarin published an essay, “The City Was All I Had,” in Places Journal. Read “The City Was All I Had.”

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