Gwydion Suilebhan
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Gwydion Suilebhan
@gwydions.bsky.social
Cultural critic, playwright, PEN/Faulkner Executive Director, New Play Exchange Project Director. Dad.
And here it is! The 2025 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction finalist list!
March 3, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Can I just take a moment of joy to share this picture of my wife and I on our wedding day 16.5 years ago? We're going to the theater tonight for Valentine's Day, and I'm taking our joy and excitement about seeing a friend's play as a profound act of defiance. WE WILL NOT BE DISMAYED.
February 14, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Gonna get a big dish of beef chow mein.
February 9, 2025 at 5:36 PM
February 9, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Um... the NEA has just released updated application guidelines that include the following: "Funding priority will be given for projects that take place in 2026-2027 that celebrate and honor the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence."
February 6, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Here it is, friends -- the longlist for the 2025 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction!
February 3, 2025 at 8:13 PM
My son in that room.
January 25, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Essential reading before January 20.
January 2, 2025 at 4:40 PM
It's not every day that I get to have lunch with Alice McDermott and the Irish Ambassador.

It's just today.
December 5, 2024 at 6:30 PM
Yes, I'm religious. I believe in the holy trinity.
November 30, 2024 at 4:00 AM