March 27, 2024

Annie Wenstrup wins 2024 Emerging Writers Award

From New England Review

“New England Review and the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference are delighted to announce the selection of Annie Wenstrup as the recipient of the tenth annual New England Review Award for Emerging Writers. She was chosen among a strong pool of emerging writers published in NER in 2023, including the six finalists.

Annie Wenstrup’s poems “Exhibit D: Un-sent Memo” and “Ghost Pixels” appeared in NER 44.4.

Annie Wenstrup lives in Fairbanks, Alaska. Her poems have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Alaska Quarterly ReviewEcotoneNimrodPalette, and POETRY. She is an Indigenous Nations Poets Fellow and an Inuit Art Quarterly Art Writing Fellow. She has also received fellowships from the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, the Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center, and Storyknife.

Annie will receive a full scholarship to the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference in August 2024, as the Stephen Donadio Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference Scholar. Congratulations to Annie!”

Annie Wenstrup (Dena’ina) is a 2022 IN-NA-PO fellow and lives in Fairbanks Alaska with her family. She is a Smithsonian Arctic Studies Fellow, an Inaugural Indigenous Nations Poetry Fellow, and an Inuit Art Quarterly Fellow. Her work can be found or is forthcoming in Alaska Quarterly Review, Ecotone, Nimrod, Palette, Poetry, Poetry Northwest, and Ran Off with the Star Bassoon.

In-Na-Po

Founded in 2020, In-Na-Po—Indigenous Nations Poets—is a national Indigenous poetry community committed to mentoring emerging writers, nurturing the growth of Indigenous poetic practices, and raising the visibility of all Native Writers past, present, and future. In-Na-Po recognizes the role of poetry in sustaining tribal sovereign nations and Native languages.