Proudly presented to you by New Literary Project, Orinda Books, and Graywolf Press is the 2023 Meet the Joyce Carol Oates Prize Winner event.

In this conversation, Joyce Carol Oates, Joseph Di Prisco, and Manuel Muñoz discuss the influence of family and community, telling stories around the kitchen table, and more.

Find video footage of the event on our YouTube channel, here.

Friends of the New Literary Project gathered to host the 2022 Joyce Carol Oates Prize Winner, Lauren Groff, on October 16, 2022.

This gathering celebrated Groff’s residency in the Bay Area and saw a lively itinerary including performances from Cal Shakes and the Piedmont East Bay Children’s Choir, as well as a conversation between Groff and Fiona McFarlane, professor and author.

Watch their lively exchange here.

Friends of the New Literary Project hosted 2021 Joyce Carol Oates Prize Winner, Danielle Evans, on March 12, 2022.

The gathering, which celebrated Evans’ residency in the Bay Area, featured a live performance by Kev Choice, as well as a conversation between Evans and New Literary Project Chair Joseph Di Prisco.

Find video footage of the event on our YouTube channel, here.

In this conversation brought to you by The New Literary Project and the Lafayette Library and Learning Center, Joyce Carol Oates, Joseph Di Prisco, and Danielle Evans discuss their writing process, artistic inspirations, and the books they return to again and again.

In this live and virtual gathering, the 2021 Joyce Carol Oates Prize finalists take to the House of SpeakEasy stage to share a story on the theme "The Day I Realized." After sharing their stories, Simpson Literary Project's founder Joseph Di Prisco, and Joyce Carol Oates moderate a Q&A discussion with Danielle Evans, Jenny Offill, Lysley Tenorio, and Darin Strauss.

The New Literary Project hosted an Equinox celebration which featured Pandemic Pop-Up Players Stacy Ross, Jomar Tagatac, and Dane Troy, along with Philippa Kelly, Dramaturg.

Daniel Mason (2020 Joyce Carol Oates Literary Prize Winner), Uttara Chaudhuri (Simpson Fellow & Graduate Student, UC Berkeley English Department), Olivia Loscavio (David Wood Workshop at Northgate), Frank Starn (Board Member), and Michael Krasny (2020 Simpsonista Award Winner) all spoke as well.

Joseph Di Prisco interviews 2020 Joyce Carol Oates Prize Winner Daniel Mason. The award-winning author of The Winter Soldier (Little, Brown), Daniel Mason is Clinical Assistant Professor in the Stanford University Department of Psychiatry, and author of four influential, powerful books of fiction, including A Registry of My Passage Upon the Earth (Little, Brown). He will appear, it is hoped, in the Bay Area in October 2020 and participate in a 10-day residency during the spring semester of 2021. He is the fourth winner of the annual $50,000 award.