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November 13, 2025

We are delighted to announce Ed Park, author of the novels Same Bed Different Dreams, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, and Personal Days and the story collection An Oral History of Atlantis, as the recipient of the 2025 Deborah Pease Prize from A Public Space.

August 14, 2025 by A Public Space

July 3, 2025

April 7, 2025

Stories Out of School is an annual flash-fiction contest created by the Academy for Teachers to honor "the most fascinating, difficult, and important job on the planet."

January 6, 2025

July 1, 2024

July 1, 2024

We are pleased to share Tom Taylor's essay "The Tree Trimmer" as the 2024 recipient of the Bette Howland Nonfiction Prize.

April 23, 2024 by Tom Taylor

Stories Out of School is an annual flash-fiction contest created by the Academy for Teachers to honor "the most fascinating, difficult, and important job on the planet."

February 5, 2024

December 9, 2023 by Ada Zhang

We are pleased to share Fletcher Huntley's essay "Why Have You Forsaken Me?" as the 2023 recipient of the Bette Howland Nonfiction Prize.

May 1, 2023 by Fletcher Huntley

Stories Out of School is an annual flash-fiction contest created by the Academy for Teachers to honor "the most fascinating, difficult, and important job on the planet."

February 6, 2023

We are pleased to share Charlotte Slivka's essay "March 12" as the 2022 recipient of the Bette Howland Nonfiction Prize.

September 6, 2022 by Charlotte Slivka

Stories Out of School is an annual flash-fiction contest created by the Academy for Teachers to honor "the most fascinating, difficult, and important job on the planet."

January 24, 2022

Anne Elliott on the poetry of Capital by Mark Hage.

September 20, 2021

“What I didn’t know is that you then go on to become part of a vibrant literary community, which meant I had mentors and new friends I could reach out to; in the many lonely hours of revising a book, this meant the world to me.” —Jai Chakrabarti

September 3, 2021

We are pleased to share Valeriya Kipnis's "Little Yellow Pills," the 2021 recipient of the Bette Howland Nonfiction Prize.

July 26, 2021 by Valeriya Kipnis

Get to know the author Paul Lisicky, who will lead us in reading Qiu Miaojin’s Notes of A Crocodile in the July edition of #APStogether.

July 13, 2021

“I really do believe in the power of a drawing to ignite the imagination.” —Annie Coggan

June 10, 2021

"Yours, I think, shall forever be, for me, inextricable from a certain song of snow and wander." —Alexander Booth

June 7, 2021