5/23/08
Fiction student Paul Maxfield's story "My Dad Was a Man" won
Writer Advice's third annual flash fiction contest, and will appear in the July-September issue of the magazine.
5/8/08
Creative nonfiction student Lisa Cupolo's story "Bread" was published in the most recent issue of
Narrative Magazine.
4/29/08
Alum
Mark Yakich's new collection of poems,
The Importance of Peeling Potatoes in Ukraine, was published by Penguin.
4/28/08
Alum Manny Karkowsky received the
American Academy of American Poets Prize.
4/9/08
Creative nonfiction student Diane Malone's essay, "Fits," was accepted by the feminist journal of literature and visual art
So to Speak. It will appear in the summer issue of the journal.
2/11/08
Fiction faculty member Cary Holladay won the
Miami University Press annual novella contest (sponsored by Miami University of Ohio) for
A Fight in the Doctor's Office. The prize is publication of the novella in book form, plus $1,000. It was chosen from more than 150 entries.
2/4/08
Thirteen students and four faculty members returned from the annual meeting of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs. The three-day conference drew more than 7,000 writers, and offered dozens of panels. Professors Rebecca Skloot, Kristen Iversen and Richard Bausch each appeared on two. The conference also featured the editors of over 300 literary journals and magazines. The staff of the U of M's own award-winning journal,
The Pinch, sold out of its newest issue, the relsese party for which attracted a crowd of distinguished writers and editors from publications like
The New York Times,
Harpers,
The Atlantic and
The New Yorker. A huge success.
1/30/08
Congatulations to our students who recently had work published in national journals and magazines. Patrick Walters was published in
The New York Times Magazine and Trevor Gore had work accepted by
The Missouri Review.
1/1/08
The newest edition of the U of M's creative writing program newsletter, On the Southern Track, is available now. Download it in PDF form by clicking
here.