Literary Arts

Colin Channer’s ten books as fiction writer, poet and editor include the verse collection Console (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023), a Finalist for the New England Book Award. His prose and poetry have appeared in The Atlantic, Bomb, The New Yorker, The Poetry Review (UK), Conjunctions, Agni, Prairie Schooner, Virginia Quarterly and other venues. Recent honors include a 2023 Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award from Poets & Writers; a 2022-2023 Cullman Fellowship from the New York Public Library; a 2019 Amy Clampitt Residency; and a 2018 Henry Merritt Wriston Fellowship from Brown. Channer’s verse collection Providential was a Finalist for the 2016 OCM/Bocas Prize in poetry. His anthology Kingston Noir was a Spectator Magazine (UK) Best Book of 2012. His novel Waiting in Vain was a 1998 Critic’s Choice Selection of the Washington Post. As a monologist he has appeared at venues such as Joe's Pub at the Public Theater, The Dweck Center for Contemporary Culture at Brooklyn Public Library and The Bowery Poetry Club. He has also performed at Boston’s Wilbur.