Bringing Good News for the Year Ahead
We all could use some good news. Here at NewLit we believe it’s important to celebrate all of the bright spots and the wins. With that in mind, here are a few updates from NewLit’s Jack Hazard Fellow community:
2025 Jack Hazard Fellow Kristin Collier’s new book What Debt Demands: Family, Betrayal, and Precarity in a Broken System (Grand Central Publishing) released in November 2025. The book has been garnering coverage in local and national media including CNBC, Chicago Review of Books, and Minnesota Public Radio. You can learn more about Kristin’s work and order her book here.
2025 Jack Hazard Fellow Dallas Crow has a new poetry chapbook out now titled Troutwatching (Finishing Line Press) which released in September 2025. Dallas is also the author of Small, Imperfect Paradise (Parallel Press, 2013). The father of two grown sons, he lives on the Upper West Side of Atlanta with his sweetheart and teaches at Woodward Academy.
Inaugural 2022 Jack Hazard Fellow Adam O. Davis writes “Beyond delighted that my second poetry collection, Pyrrhic Symphony, won the Raz/Shumaker Book Prize from Prairie Schooner and will be published by University of Nebraska Press in 2026.” Additionally, Adam is the winner of the Kathryn A. Morton poetry prize and a finalist for the Big Other Book Award for Poetry, the recipient of the 2022 Poetry International Prize and the 2016 George Bogin Memorial award from the poetry society of America. Learn more about Adam’s work and preorder his book from his publisher.
2024 Jack Hazard Fellow Mohammad Hakima recently won Boulevard's Nonfiction Contest for Emerging Writers. Mohammad is an NYC-based author and educator. He moved to the United States in August 1998 from Tehran, Iran, and started writing after learning to speak English. His work is published in Prairie Schooner, Bellevue Literary Review, Black Warrior Review, Passages North, Popula and others.
2025 Jack Hazard Fellow Molly Olguin’s new book The Sea Gives Up the Dead (Red Hen Press) which released in May of 2025 is a collection of stories sprinkled into the soil of fairy tale, left to take root and grow wild there. It was named the winner of the 2023 Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction. It has been reviewed in Kirkus Reviews, Necessary Fiction, and Strange Horizons. Learn more about Molly and order her book here.
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