Stripling forthcoming in Relief Journal

Sara Stripling's poem "Fire Baptism" has been accepted by Relief Journal. It will appear in issue 3.2. Sara is a fourth-year student in the program.

McHugh forthcoming in Unsplendid

Ashey McHugh's poem "In Praise of the Light Bulb" has been accepted for a future issue of Unsplendid.

Sidney Wade reads Tuesday

Poet and translator Sidney Wade reads from her work Tuesday at 8 p.m. in Giffels Auditorium. Sidney has published five collections of poems, the most recent of which is Stroke, from Persea Books. Her poems and translations have appeared in a wide variety of journals, including Poetry, The New Yorker, Grand Street, Paris Review, The New Republic, The Gettysburg Review, Two Lines, and The Kenyon Review, among others. She translates the poems of Guven Turan, Yahya Kemal, and Gulseli Inal, among others, from the Turkish. She recently served as president of the Association for Writers and Writing Programs, and has taught at the University of Florida in the Creative Writing Program since 1993. More on Sidney and her books at her web site.

McHugh forthcoming in Anti-

Ashley McHugh's poem "Of this Burning Heart" has been accepted for an upcoming issue of Anti-.

Brock receives Pushcart Prize

Geoff Brock has received a Pushcart Prize for his poem "Daddy: 1933," which appears in Pushcart Prize XXXIV: Best of the Small Presses, out this month. The poem originally appeared in the June 2008 issue of Poetry and can be read here.

The Pushcart Prize anthologies have been published annually since the mid-1970s to honor the best poetry and short fiction of the preceding year. Michael Heffernan, Skip Hays, Molly Giles, and Ellen Gilchrist have appeared in earlier volumes.

Peterson forthcoming in anthology

Josh Peterson's short story "Love Apocalypse" will appear in the FlatmanCrooked anthology Not About Vampires: An Anthology of New Fiction Concerning Everything Else due out early next year. Josh is a first-year student in the program.

Chapbook from McHugh

Ashley McHugh has placed a chapbook with LATR Editions. "Become All Flame" is slated for publication in spring 2010.

Honum in AGNI

Chloe Honum's poem "Come Back" is the in the current issue of AGNI.

Ashley McHugh, rock star

Ashley McHugh has received the Morton Marr Poetry Prize for her poem "Into These Knots." The prize includes publication in the Southwest Review and a check for $1,000.

Also this week, two of Ashley's poems — "Wedding Anniversaries" and "Church of the Annunziata, 1760" — were accepted for publication in a future issue of the Pebble Lake Review.

Williams forthcoming in 42opus

Johnathon Williams's poem "Stillwell, Oklahoma" has been accepted for publication in 42opus. Williams is a fourth-year student in the program.

Williamson wins Perigree Poetry Prize

Corrie Williamson, a first-year student in the program, has won the Perigree Poetry Contest for her poem "The Seed Jar." The prize includes a $300 award and publication in the next issue.

McHugh forthcoming in The New Criterion

Ashley McHugh's poem "Shepherd Road" has been accepted for a forthcoming issue of The New Criterion. Ashley is a third-year student in the program.

Stephen Elliot reads Tuesday

Stephen Elliot, author of The Adderall Diaries, will read from the book Tuesday at 8 p.m. in Giffels Auditorium. Read a recent interview with Elliot at Flavorwire, or check out one of the many positive reviews the book has garnered at Bookslut.

Williams forthcoming in Tar River Poetry

Johnathon Williams's poem "The Christian Motorcycle Association Arrives for its Annual Rally Outside Mena, AR" has been accepted for publication in Tar River Poetry. The poem is slated for the Spring issue. Johnathon is a fourth-year student in the program.

Peterson selected as finalist for FlatmanCrooked Prize

Josh Peterson, a first-year student in the program, was selected as a finalist for the FlatmanCrooked Prize for his short story "Love Apocalypse."

McHugh forthcoming in Birmingham Poetry Review

Five sections of Ashley McHugh's sonnet sequence "Cairns" have been accepted for publication in Birmingham Poetry Review:

"I. Jack"
"IV. 'Grace that taught the heart to fear'”
"XI. Revival, May 2008"
"XIII. 'Bandages hide the place where each is living'”
"XVIII. 'And anger, and the idea of love'"

Ashley is a third-year student in the program.

McHugh forthcoming in Measure

Ashley McHugh's poem "A Letter from Iceland" has been accepted for a forthcoming issue of Measure. McHugh is a third-year student in the program.

Williams published at The Morning News

Johnathon Williams's essay "A Taste for Flesh" can be read online at The Morning News. Johnathon is a fourth-year student in the program.

Rudnitsky poetry prize opens Sept. 1

Female poets who have yet to publish a book should check out the Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize, which opens for submissions on Sept. 1.

Nickol awarded artist fellowship

Ben Nickol has won a 2010 Individual Artist Fellowship from the Arkansas Arts Council. Nickol is a third-year fiction writer in the program.

Williams selected for Best New Poets 2009

Johnathon Williams's poem "Dirge" has been selected for Best New Poets 2009 by guest editor Kim Addonizio. The anthology, which features the work of 50 emerging poets, will be published in October. Johnathon is a fourth-year student in the program.

Honum awarded Ruth Lilly Fellowship

Fourth-year student Chloe Honum has been awarded a 2009 Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. Honum was one of five poets selected to receive the award, which comes with a prize of $15,000 and publication in Poetry Magazine. Honum's work will be featured in the November issue.

Congratulations, Chloe!

Honum named as finalist for the 2009 Ruth Lilly Fellowships

Third-year student Chloe Honum has been named as a finalist for the 2009 Ruth Lilly Fellowships.

McHugh forthcoming in Sixth Finch

Ashley McHugh's poem "Ars Poetica" has been accepted for the fall issue of Sixth Finch. McHugh is a third-year student in the MFA program.

Mullholland receives Coughlin-Lawrence Fellowship

Meaghan Mulholland recently received the Coughlin-Lawrence Fiction Fellowship to the Solstice Summer Writers' Conference at Pine Manor College in Chestnut Hill MA. The fellowship covers full room and board at the conference. Mullholland is a third-year student in the MFA program.

Honum forthcoming in the Bellingham Review

Chloe Honum's poem "Ballerina, Released" was selected as Runner-up by judge Paulann Petersen for the 49th Parallel Award in Poetry from the Bellingham Review. The poem will be published in a future issue. Honum is a fourth-year student in the program.

Be the first kid on your block to read The Adderall Diaries, by Stephen Elliott

Steve Elliott is a pretty famous guy. Most know him as the best man at Geoff and Padma's wedding. Others know him as a hard-luck poker player. And a few know him as the author of terrific books like Happy Baby, A Life Without Consequences, and My Girlfriend Comes to the City and Beats Me Up. However you know him, you should know that he has a new book coming out in the fall, called The Adderall Diaries: A Memoir of Moods, Masochism, and Murder, written almost entirely under the influence. And he's willing to mail YOU an advance copy.

Of course, there's a catch. Read the details here.

Williams forthcoming in Unsplendid

Third-year student Johnathon Williams's poem "Sapphics for a Dead Porn Star" has been accepted for a future issue of Unsplendid.

McHugh forthcoming in Able Muse

Second-year student Ashley McHugh's poem "From Tuliptrees" has been accepted for a forthcoming issue of Able Muse.

McHugh forthcoming in Memorious

Second-year student Ashley McHugh's poem "Deer Hunting" has been accepted by Memorious.

Ashley has also just received a full scholarship to attend the West Chester University Poetry Conference this summer, where she's enrolled in Dana Gioia's Master Class.

Honum wins scholarship

Third-year poet Chloë Honum has won a full tuition scholarship to attend the New York State Summer Writer's Institute.

NYRB Reviews Brock's Pinocchio

The current issue of The New York Review of Books contains a nice review, by Tim Parks, of Geoff Brock's recent translation of Carlo Collodi's Pinocchio:

[Collodi's] achievement here was to tap into the zany spirit of Tuscan humor to deliver a Pinocchio who swings alarmingly between lies and candor, generous sentiment and cruel mockery, good intentions and zero staying power. Geoffrey Brock's accomplishment in his excellent new translation is to get that spirit across in English.

Book review contest

The Rumpus.net is having a book review competition open to all undergraduate and graduate students.

First prize: $200 and publication in The Rumpus.
Second prize: $100 and publication in The Rumpus.
Third prize: Publication in The Rumpus.

There is no fee to enter. Book reviews must be at least 600 words (no longer than 1,500 words) and concern literary fiction, creative non-fiction, or memoir. The publication date of the book is irrelevant.

The deadline to submit your review is June 1, 2009. Please email book reviews to: bookreview@therumpus.net.

The Rumpus is a new online literary magazine focusing on culture rather than "pop culture."

Brock featured on Poetry Foundation podcast

Geoff Brock's poem "The Nights" is the Audio Poem of the Day over at the Poetry Foundation. It's the third time his work has been featured there in the past month; you can also hear "And Day Brought Back My Night" and "Weighing Light."

Sloan sells first novel

Maya Sloan's first novel, Red Dirt and Ice, has been bought by Simon & Shuster's Pocket Books. The novel is scheduled for release in early 2010. Maya has also received a residency fellowship from the Vermont Studio Center.

Brock translation and essay in Poetry

Geoffrey Brock has a translation of Franco Fortini's "Sonnet of the Seven Chinese" in the new issue of Poetry, as well as a short essay about the poem.

Sloan receives fellowship

MFA alum Maya Sloan has received a fellowship from the Elizabeth Kostova Foundation as one of 10 participants (5 from the English-writing world and 5 from Bulgaria) to attend the 2009 Sozopol Fiction Seminars on the Black Sea Coast of Bulgaria. The program is designed to allow participants to explore their work in an international community of writers working in English or Bulgarian, and to encourage exchanges between NES writers and their Bulgarian colleagues in cooperation with the US Embassy.

Geoff Brock, animated

"And Day Brought Back My Night," a poem by our own Geoffrey Brock, has been adapted for an animated short film just released by the Poetry Foundation.



You can read the poem in its original form in the Foundation's archives.

Upcoming publications and readings from Molly Giles

Molly Giles, a member of our fiction faculty, has a slew of upcoming publications and appearances.

Publications:

* An upcoming essay about grandmotherhood in the anthology Eye of My Heart, published by Harper Collins. (Ellen Gilchrist, another of our fiction faculty, also has an essay in this anthology.)
* A new story in the Winter/Spring 2009 issue of Green Mountains Review.
* A new story in the Winter/spring 2009 issue of Subtropics.
* A new story forthcoming in Epoch.

Appearances:
* A reading on April 30 and May 2 in San Francisco from Eye of My Heart.
* A reading on March 25 at Southern Indiana University.
* A reading on April 2 at Simpson College in Des Moines.
* Fiction workshops at Squaw Valley Community of Writers in August.
* A residency at Yaddo next December.

Congratulations, Molly!

McHugh accepted by Diagram

Ashley McHugh's poem "Fling" has been accepted for an upcoming issue of Diagram. Ashley is a second-year student in the program.

Hammond accepted to Black Warrior Review

Allison Hammond's story "Tuesday's Child" has been accepted for publication in Black Warrior Review and will appear in the upcoming Fall/Winter issue (#36.1). Allison is a third-year student in the MFA program.

News from Pizzolatto

Nic Pizzolatto, who graduated from the MFA program in 2005, has placed his first novel with Scribner. The novel, titled Galveston, is scheduled for release in early 2010. And one of Nic's short stories, "Wanted Man," has been selected for Best American Mystery Stories 2009 by editor Otto Penzler.

McHugh accepted by Garbanzo

Two of Ashley McHugh's poems — "To The New Year" and "All You Need Is Love" — have been accepted by Garbanzo. Ashley is a second-year student in the MFA program.

Brock interview and poems

Geoff Brock is interviewed by A.E. Stallings at Able Muse. The site also features several of Brock's poems and translations.

Susan Sontag Prize for Translation

The Susan Sontag Prize for Translation is accepting entries.

This $5,000 grant will be awarded to a proposed work of literary translation from Spanish into English and is open to anyone under the age of 30. The translation must fall under the category of fiction or letters, and the applicant will propose his or her own translation project. The project should be manageable for a five-month period of work, as the grant will be awarded in May 2009, and the translation must be completed by October 2009. All application materials must be received by January 30, 2009.

Honum in Shenandoah

Chloë Honum's "The Tulip-Flame" has been published in the Winter 2008 issue of Shenandoah. Chloë is a third-year poet in the program.