The New Voices Series brings early-career writers of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry to campus to read their work alongside student writers from the University of Chicago. The Program in Creative Writing administers a call for submissions from students, and the visiting writers each select a student to introduce and to read before them at their reading. The New Voices Series fosters excitement and builds community among the students while providing an occasion for students to share the stage with working writers and for faculty to celebrate their students' work.
In Winter 2027, our visiting writers include:
- Harriet Clark, New Voices in Fiction, February 2, 2027
- Amy Lee Scott, New Voices in Nonfiction, February 16, 2027
- Lloyd Wallace, Phoenix Poets New Voices in Poetry, March 2, 2027
Harriet Clark is the winner of the The Paris Review's Plimpton Prize for her short story "Descent" and has received fellowships from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and the Wallace Stegner program. The Hill is her debut novel.
Amy Lee Scott is the author of When the World Explodes: Essays (Mad Creek Books/Ohio State University Press), which won the 2023 Gournay Prize. She is a graduate of the University of Iowa’s Nonfiction Writing Program. Her illustrated essays have appeared in The Iowa Review, New Ohio Review, and Tin House Online. Adopted from South Korea as an infant, and raised in suburban Los Angeles, she now lives with her family and tabby cat in Southeast Michigan. Learn more at amyleescott.com.
Lloyd Wallace lives in Pittsburgh, where he runs Poetry Nightly. His first book, Mammal Pit, won the Phoenix Emerging Poet Book Prize from the University of Chicago Press and will be released as part of their Phoenix Poets Series in March of 2027.
Past New Voices Authors
2025–26
Carina del Valle Schorske
Alex Foster
Jake Rose
2024–25
Jose-Luis Moctezuma
Justin St. Germain
Cleo Qian
2023–24
Tracy Fuad
Kate Folk
Raquel Gutiérrez
2022–23
Julia May Jonas
Hasanthika Sirisena
Wendy Xu
2021–22
Divya Victor
Rebecca Sacks
Anna Della Subin
2019–20
Halle Butler
Sawako Nakayasu
Francisco Cantú
2018–19
Cody-Rose Clevidence
RO Kwon
Joshua Rivkin
2017–18
Catherine Lacey
GC Waldrep
Mary Norris
2016–17
Margaret Ross
Jeannie Vanasco
Chinelo Okparanta