NEWS

News

• The Toronto Star: “ Kevin Chong, Dionne Irving among five writers on short list for 2023 Giller Prize worth $100,000”

• CBC Books, “Dionne Irving's The Islands follows the migration stories of Jamaican women.”

• PEN/Faulkner Award Longlist

• New York Times 11 New Books We Recommend This Week

• Oprah Daily, “Caribbean Writers You Need to Read This Summer”

• NPR, “Debut novel 'The God of Good Looks' adds to growing canon of Caribbean literature”

Reviews

• The Harvard Review of THE ISLANDS

• Booklist Review of THE ISLANDS

• Publisher’s Weekly Review of  THE ISLANDS

• Kirkus Reviews THE ISLANDS

• Publisher’s Weekly Review of QUINT

• Ploughshares: Marriage and The Islands

• New York Times: Story Collections That Ask: ‘How Did I Get Here?’

• The Southern Bookseller Review of THE ISLANDS

• Apartment Therapy Review of THE ISLANDS

Radio Interviews

• The Next Chapter, CBC Radio

• Fresh Air, CBC Radio

• Texas Public Radio: Book Public—Que Esperanzas: 'The Cape' by Dionne Irving

• DEBUTIFUL PODCAST: DIONNE IRVING – THE ISLANDS

• Read More Podcast

• LARB Radio Hour

Print Interviews

• Shelf Media: Interview: The Islands, an Interview with Dionne Irving

• Bloom: The Tragedy of the “Two-way Mirror”: Q&A with Dionne Irving

• Indianapolis Monthly Q&A With The Islands Author Dionne Irving

• Chicago Review Connection and Empathetic Perspectives in “The Islands”  

Lists

• NPR’s 2022 Books We Love List

• THE MILLIONS Most Anticipated: The Great Second-Half 2022 Book Preview

• Good Morning America  November Books to Pass for the Holidays

• THE ROOT November 2022 Books by Black Authors We Can't Wait to Read [UPDATED]

• November IndieNext List

• Bibliolifestyle Best Fall 2022 Short Story Collections

Videos

• The Writer’s Center Virtual Craft Chat with novelist Dionne Irving

• Notre Dame QUINT Book Launch

• Notre Dame THE ISLANDS Book Launch

Other

• The Creative Writing Program Welcomes Dionne Irving Bremyer and Xavier Navarro Aquino

• “Novelist and English professor Dionne Irving Bremyer on empathy, creative writing, and climate change's impact on culture,”