Freezing rain is falling in Fayetteville, but we're warmed by the news that four of the eight authors short-listed for the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters 2014 Fiction Prize are graduates of our program. Congratulations to Beth Ann Fennelly, Tom Franklin, Steve Yarbrough, and Steve Yates! Their books--The Tilted World, The Realm of Last Chances, and Some Kinds of Love: Stories, respectively--are top-notch. We're proud of their achievements!