One Story Features Alum Susan Perabo

Pick up the latest issue of One Story (#178), which features "Indulgence" by MFA alumna Susan Perabo (1994). 

And check out the brief Q&A on the One Story website, which asks Susan about the process of writing this story:

"Once I realized what was going to happen in the end (and I realized this within the first couple of pages), I had to forget that it was going to happen so that I could write the story as if it were all really taking place. I did not want to break the spell for myself, or I knew I would break the spell for the reader. Once I realized I had to do this, it was not hard to do, because, as it turned out, it was just an extension of what fiction writers do with every story. As you’re writing, you’re believing. The people are real, and the events are happening, full stop. That’s essential."

Brock's "The Day" in POETRY

The latest issue of POETRY contains a poem by Geoff Brock, "The Day," as well as new work by recent Arkansas visitors, A.E. Stallings and Michelle Boisseau. 

Diagram Features Heil and Takacs

The latest issue of Diagram features an Arkansas double, with poems by second-year translation student Kathleen Heil and first-year poetry student Eszter Takacs. Check out Heil's "Ask the Question" and Takacs' "Profligate Century Living."

Williamson Wins Shenandoah's Boatwright Prize for Poetry

Congratulations to fourth-year student Corrie Williamson, who won the 2013 James Boatwright Prize for Poetry from Shenandoah for her work, "The Evolution of Nightmare." 

Shenandoah awards the $1000 prize to a single poem published in the review over the past year. You can read the poem in full (along with two other works by Corrie) here.

Three MFA Students in the Latest Cannibal

Issue six of the hand-sewn, limited-edition journal Cannibal features work by translation student Kaveh Bassiri and by poetry students Katie Nichol and Eszter Takacs. Get your copy before they disappear!