Please join us for the N Plus Ultra: Cocktail Edition, a fundraiser to support n+1.

A night of cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, and music to celebrate “the best goddamn literary magazine in America” (Mary Karr). 

Raise a glass, or three, to n+1—and to Dawn Lundy Martin and Paul Soto, the recipients of the 2026 n+1 Writers’ Fellowship and the 2026 Anthony Veasna So Fiction Prize, respectively. 

With honorary hosts Hernan Diaz, Naomi Fry, Tavi Gevinson, Paul Grimstad, Richard Hell, Gabriella Karefa-Johnson, Mary Karr, Phillip Lopate, Dinaw Mengestu, Hari Nef, Jia Tolentino, Tony Tulathimutte, and Tara Westover.

All proceeds from the evening directly support the magazine and will help us continue to publish today’s most dynamic writers. 

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If you’re unable to attend the event but would still like to donate in support of n+1, please use the donation field to the right, below the ticketing options. 

If you have questions about the event, or are interested in becoming a sponsor, email Dani Oliver at dani@nplusonemag.com.

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About the Winners

Dawn Lundy Martin is an American poet, essayist, and memoirist. She is the author of five books of poems: Instructions for The Lovers, Good Stock Strange Blood, Life in a Box is a Pretty Life, DISCIPLINE, and A Gathering of Matter / A Matter of Gathering. Her nonfiction can be found in n+1, The New Yorker, Ploughshares, Chicago Review, and The Best American Essays 2019, 2021, and 2026. She is Professor & Distinguished Writer in Residence at Bard College and is writing a memoir, When a Person Goes Missing, forthcoming from Pantheon Books.

Paul Soto is a Venezuelan-American writer from the Rio Grande Valley. His fiction has been published in n+1 and he’s finishing his debut novel. He lives in Lisbon.

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The N Plus Ultra 2026 is generously sponsored by The Gernert Company, Macmillan, Simon & Schuster, Hachette Book Group, Frances Goldin Literary Agency, Ecco, William Morrow, the WashU Office of Public Scholarship, Kings County Distillery, Tito’s Handmade Vodka, Fort Hamilton Distillery, Boundary Breaks Vineyard, Saranac Brewery, Liquid Fables, Dionese’s Vermouth, Faccia Brutto, Verve Wine, Grand Cru Selections, and Skurnik Wines & Spirits.