Features – ESSIE CHAMBERS

Features

June 2024

Made at MacDowell: New Work and Relationships Grew from Essie Chambers’ Residency

MacDowell offered a place for Essie Chambers develop Swift River but also much more.

Essie Chambers outside MacDowell’s Banks Studio in November 2016. (Joanna Eldredge Morrissey photo)

October 21, 2025

LISTEN: WRKF’s Talk Louisiana with Jim Engster Interviews Essie Chambers ahead of the Ernest J. Gaines Award Ceremony
October 13, 2025

THE ADVOCATE: The 2025 Ernest J. Gaines Award winner ‘talks across time’ in her debut novel
October 22, 2024

B&N: Swift River by Essie Chambers is Our 2024 Discover Prize Winner
September 5, 2024

VERSE & VINO Spotlight: Essie Chambers
August 10, 2024

Irish Independent: Essie Chambers’s Swift River expertly presents a multifaceted Diamond in the rough in New England
July 9, 2024

Microsoft Start: 5 books to read after ‘Swift River,’ according to author Essie Chambers
July 1, 2024

The Rumpus: Life is Tragicomic — A Conversation with Essie Chambers
June 20, 2024

TODAY: Essie Chambers recommends 5 books to read after ‘Swift River’
June 7, 2024

Washington Post Review: ‘Swift River,’ a sparkling debut about a young girl you’ll never forget
June 7, 2024

Los Angeles Sentinel: Essie Chambers Debuts Captivating Novel, ‘Swift River’
June 7, 2024

The Nation — A New Novel Explores How to Develop Black Identity in the Absence of Black Culture
June 5, 2024

Boston Globe: For her debut novel, ‘Swift River,’ Essie Chambers drew on growing up biracial in Greenfield