Whiting Award winner Ladan Osman directed "The Ascendants," in which four young Black women musicians from Chicago talk about how music has shaped them. It's now available to stream on Amazon Prime.

The Globe's summer reading list features Whiting Award winners Victor LaValle, Sarah Ruhl, and Alexander Chee, as well as Creative Nonfiction Grant Kristen Radtke.

Whiting Award winner Ilya Kaminsky's latest poem appears in The Atlantic and begins with a birdcall of sorts: "Come on/ skylark/ you door-to-door salesman overselling a song."

For The New York Times, Whiting Award winner Kaitlyn Greenidge discusses the traditions Black communities have historically used to celebrate emancipation from slavery. "The agency that comes from deciding your own traditions — a cold water toast, a watch night — become lost to a corporate calendar," she argues.

Check out a recording of Literary Magazine Prize winners' Words Without Borders and Foglifter's event celebrating queer writing around the world, featuring a dynamic, multilignual lineup with writers and translators from India, Taiwan, Panama and more.

"The Western Glacier stonefly may not be quite as renowned as the polar bear, but it’s just as dependent on ice." Creative Nonfiction Grant recipient Ben Goldfarb writes about the importance of rock glaciers for the National Parks Conservation Association.

Creative Nonfiction Grant recipient Kristen Radtke interviews Alison Bechdel about her athletic gear, creating a "container for the self," and the extreme difficulty of drawing trees, in The Believer.

Check out a preview of part three of Whiting Award winner Victor LaValle's "Eve," a comic book set in a future where the environmental crisis has come to a head. Preteen Eve -- and her android teddy bear -- are out on a journey to save her father (and the world).

Creative Nonfiction Grant recipient Kristen Radtke takes on what it means to age as a woman in isolation, for Vox.

For The Oxford American, Villareal writes about her father, an undiscovered guitar prodigy in the borderlands. "What I experienced as poetry came first through the song my father wrote for me when I was two years old," she reflects.