New Fiction, Long & Short, by Mulholland

Graduate Meaghan Mulholland (2010) has two new pieces of fiction out. You can read her small and stunning gem, "Novitiate," in Post Road Magazine:

"Last fall's acorns have taken root, shoots breaking forth from husks we neglected. They grip the earth with tiny fingers—surprisingly strong for such small things. We pull them out, one by one; they resist at first, then yield, the way life clings and clings and clings until it doesn't."

If that whets your appetite, head for the main course: a lengthy story titled "The Long Life Hotel" in At Length. 

Alum Aran Donovan in Best New Poets

Congratulations to recent graduate Aran Donovan (2013), whose poem "two left feet" is included in Best New Poets 2013! You can read an interview with Aran at the Best New Poets blog.

Takacs' Chapbook Available Online

The Spectacular Crash, a chapbook by second-year poetry student Eszter Takacs has been released by H_NGM_N press. For a limited time, you can download the entire chapbook as a PDF, for free! 

Follow this link. Or visit H_NGM_N and click on "Books" then "Chapbooks."

"The Girlhood Book of Prairie Myths" Available Now

Alum Sandy Longhorn's second collection of poems, The Girlhood Book of Prairie Myths, is now available from Jacar Press. The collection won the 2013 Jacar Press Full Length Book Contest, judged by Stuart Dischell, who claims, "These sly, beautifully crafted poems inhabit and haunt the heart-land."  Of the book, fellow alum Al Maginess writes, "A wild imagination launches these poems into flight and sees them land in a place of wisdom."

Yarbrough Novel Generating Buzz

The latest novel from alum Steve Yarbrough (1985) has been generating some great buzz. The Realm of Last Chances was an editor's pick for the Chicago Tribune and has had reviews in the New York Journal of Books and the Boston Globe, among others. 

Steve is the author of nine books. He's a professor in the Department of Writing, Literature, and Publishing at Emerson College in Boston.

Williamson in Tupelo Quarterly & Cumberland River Review

Graduate Corrie Williamson (2013) has two luminous poems in current journals:

             Everything worth knowing
is a story – but let it be fuller, let it be rich
as a root cellar that jars
            the memory of light.

You can read "A Final Study of the Anthropologist" in Tupelo Quarterly. And "Tapetum Lucidum" appears in the Cumberland River Review.

Clark's Fiction in Deep South Magazine

Need to get into an October frame of mind? Visit "Cemetery: Osceola," and see if the "plot" suits you. This short story by third-year student Megan Clark appears in Deep South Magazine.

Takacs in Interrupture

Second-year student Eszter Takacs has two poems in the October issue of Interrupture. "You are a rhythmic tornado and I am the wrong kind of light" and "We are having inadequate feelings about a small spectacular year" can be read here.

Joshua Brown, 2013 George Bennett Writer in Residence

Recent graduate Joshua Camp Brown (2013) has taken up his position as the George Bennett Writer in Residence at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire. One of the nation's most prestigious post-graduate awards, the Bennett Fellowship provides a stipend as well as housing and meals for a writer just establishing his or her career, with a manuscript under way. No teaching duties or other formal responsibilities are required.

Josh is using his time at Exeter to complete a poetry manuscript on the origins of American roots music. We're thrilled that he has this opportunity!

More info on Josh and the fellowship here and there.

Notter in Crab Orchard Review

Grab a copy of Crab Orchard Review for a new poem by alum William Notter (2002). "Driving Nevada," a work of desert dark, glinted by light, appears in the spring/fall 2013 issue. Bill is the author of Holding Everything Down: Poems. He teaches at Virginia Commonwealth University.

Two of Our Own in The New Criterion

The October issue of The New Criterion features poems by recent graduate Ashley Anna McHugh (2011) and Geoff Brock, professor of poetry and translation. You can read their poems, "Getting On" and "Drive," online now!