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In the Spotlight: Dipika Mukherjee

Dipika Mukherjee Featured in Spotlight on Malaysian Literature

Dipika Mukherjee is featured in a segment by Muslim Network TV that highlights Malaysian literature and its evolving voice. The feature brings attention to writers connected to the region and their role in shaping contemporary literary conversations.

Dipika Mukherjee Featured in International Coverage on Malaysian Reading Culture

Dipika Mukherjee is featured in coverage by The Star highlighting Malaysian reading culture, as part of a broader spotlight by an international literary magazine. The article brings together perspectives connected to the country’s literary landscape and reading habits.

Dipika Mukherjee Featured in Newcity’s Lit 50: 2025 Prose Writers

Dipika Mukherjee has been recognized in Newcity’s Lit 50: 2025 Prose Writers, a curated list celebrating influential voices shaping contemporary literature. She appears on the list alongside other writers selected for their recent contributions to prose writing.

Dipika Mukherjee Shortlisted for the 2025 Pattis Family Foundation Creative Arts Book Award

Dipika Mukherjee has been shortlisted for the 2025 Pattis Family Foundation Creative Arts Book Award, presented by Interlochen. The shortlist recognizes a select group of authors whose works have been chosen for this year’s award consideration.

Newcity Reviews Writer’s Postcards by Dipika Mukherjee

Writer’s Postcards by Dipika Mukherjee is reviewed in Newcity, offering a closer look at the book’s themes and narrative style. The review explores the journey woven through the collection and its reflection on place, memory, and experience.

Literary Boards by Appointment

July 2025-June 2027: Chicago Literary Hall of Fame, Board of Directors (USA)
June 2023-Present: Chicago Poetry Center, Literary Life Ambassador (USA)
January 2024-December 2025: Write On, Door County, Residency Board of Directors (USA)

Literary Honours

2026, Writer-in Residence, StoryKnife Residency, Alaska (US);
2026, Writer-in-Residence, Swatch Art Peace Hotel, Shanghai, (China);
2025, Listed in Lit50: Who Really Books in Chicago. Newcity. (US);
2025, Writer’s Postcards Shortlisted for Pattis Family Foundation Creative Arts Book Award by Interlochen (US)
2024, Writer’s Postcards Runner-Up/Honorable Mention, Book of the Year Award for Non Fiction, Chicago Writers Association, (USA). December 2024.
2024, Writer’s Postcards Longlisted for The Society of Midland Authors Award (Richard Frisbie Award for Adult Nonfiction) (US);
2023, Dialect of Distant Harbors Winner of Quill and Ink Award for Poetry, Southern Illinois University, for Dialect of Distant Harbors, (US);
2023, Dialect of Distant Harbors shortlisted for a Chicago Review of Books (CHIRBy) Award (US);
2022 Esteemed Artist Award, City of Chicago, Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE) Award, (US);
2022, Ragdale Fellowship, Illinois (US);
2022, Two Pushcart nominations (Essay: Tears and Song, World Literature Today; Short Story: The Gentle Battlefield, Hypertext) (US);
2021 Instructor of the Year award, Stories Matter Foundation, Chicago (US)
2019/2020, Curatorial Team member, My America: Immigrant and Refugee Writers Today, American Writers Museum. Featured Writer in this exhibition (US);
2019, Featured Chicago Writer, Carl Sandburg Literary Award (US);
2019, Sacatar Foundation Fellowship (Brazil);
2019, Rimbun Dahan Southeast Asian Resident Artist Award (Malaysia);
2019, Bangkok 1959 included in The Best Small Fictions 2019 (US);
2018 First Place Winner, Fay Khoo Award for Food+Drink Writing —Reportage, (Malaysia);
2018 Listed in Lit50: Who Really Books in Chicago (US);
2018 Illinois Arts Council Agency Individual Artist Professional Development Grant (US);
2018, UK Gladstone Residency; Panelist at Hearth (UK);
2017 Keynote at Asia Pacific Writers and Translators Conference, Bali, (Indonesia);
2016, Winner of the 4th Virginia Prize for Fiction. Shambala Junction. Aurora Metro Books, (UK);
2016 Liakoura Prize for Poetry for poem The Third Glass of Wine (US);
2015, Doppelganger, Best Malaysian Short Stories (Malaysia);
2014 Winner of the Gayatri GaMarsh Memorial Awards for Literary Excellence (US);
2009, Thunder Demons, Unpublished Novel, Longlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize (UK);
2009, The Roof, The Sky, First Prize in Platform Flash Fiction Competition (India);

Judging

2015-Present, Judge and Founder of Dutt Award for Literary Excellence, Malaysia;
2024 & 2023, Judge, Zona Gale Award for the Short Story, Wisconsin;
2023, Judge, AWP Creative Non-Fiction (sponsored by Northwestern University;)
2021, Juror, Fuller Award Selection Committee, Chicago Literary Hall of Fame;
2020, Judge, Doro Boehme Scholarship, Story Studio Chicago;
2018, Juror, Neustadt Prize for Literature (US);
2015, Juror for Loft Centre’s Minnesota Emerging Writers’ Grant;