Misha Rai awarded the Whiting Writer’s Aid Award for her novel-in-progress by the Whiting Foundation and Ucross Foundation
When Novelists become method actors
MISHA RAI KICKS OFF 2019 KENYON REVIEW LITERARY FESTIVAL BY TALKING ABOUT ALTERNATE HISTORIES: WRITING THE SURREAL IN SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY
Harper's BAZAAR, 1 of 16 Steamy New Books to Kick-Start Your Summer
Chicago Review of Books, A Best New Book of June 2018
Nadxielii Nieto, editor of Tiny Crimes: Misha Rai’s “What We Know” and Richie Narvaez’s “Withhold the Dawn” were both selected through the open call, and we’re so glad they submitted their excellent stories. That’s why we’ve always included an open call. It’s part of the thrill — reading work outside of your bubble of influences, and then expanding those influences.
“What We know” NOMINATED FOR THE SHIRLEY JACKSON AWARD!!!
2018 Dogwood literary prize in nonfiction
Judge Patrick Phillips called Rai’s essay “a complex, evocative, and often funny personal essay that summons up the past in vivid detail and interrogates the family myths that can come to rule our lives. I love how deftly this piece moves between family drama and the larger political forces of Indian independence, colonialism, and feminism, and chronicles one woman’s struggle to both honor her family’s past and somehow break free from it.”
MISHA RAI AWARDED A MACDOWELL COLONY FELLOWSHIP FOR THE 2018 WINTER/SPRING RESIDENCY PERIOD
2018-2020 Kenyon review Fellow
The Kenyon Review welcomes two exceptional writers as the next KR Fellows: Molly McCully Brown, in poetry, and Misha Rai, in prose. Brown and Rai will bring their literary gifts and teaching talent to Kenyon College in August, when they begin two-year residencies as part of the Review family.
The writers were chosen in December from more than 200 applicants, “the strongest pool of candidates we’ve ever had for the KR Fellowships,” said KR Editor David H. Lynn. “They are both extraordinary writers, and inspiring teachers as well.”
“Misha Rai and Molly McCully Brown promise to transform our editorial vision with their energy and their commitment to expanding the range of voices publishing in KR,” said Sergei Lobanov-Rostovsky, associate editor of the Review. “Their work combines an engagement with social justice, a close attention to the ways we tell difficult stories, and the sheer joy of formal exploration.”
ANNOUNCEMENT IN THE SEPT/OCT 2017 ISSUE OF POETS & WRITERS FOR WINNING THE 2016 DANA AWARD IN THE NOVEL FOR NOVEL-IN-PROGRESS
FINALIST FOR THE 2017-2018 CHARLES PICK SOUTH ASIA FELLOWSHIP, UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA, U.K.
Had Misha Rai won the fellowship she would have completed work on her debut novel, Blood We Did Not Spill, at the School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia, a school that boasts the first MA in creative writing in the U.K., with alumni such as Nobel Prize Winner, Kazuo Ishiguro and Booker Prize Winner, Ian McEwan.
WINNER OF THE 2016 DANA AWARD IN THE NOVEL
On April 5, 2017 Misha Rai won the Dana Award in the Novel for Blood We Did Not Spill.
CREATIVE WRITING DOCTORAL STUDENT RECEIVES DISSERTATION FELLOWSHIP
This year’s Fellows also include the first Ph.D. in fiction ever supported in the program—Woodrow Wilson press announcement.