Macri Publishes Chapbook

Congratulations to poetry alum Angie Macri whose new chapbook, Fear Nothing of the Future or the Past, is just out from Finishing Line Press. Katrina Vandenberg writes, "I know of few poets like Angie Macri – those who zero in on hard beauty. She’s lyric, precise, and unwilling to show off. A poet of mica and bone, panthers and burial mounds, Macri does not fear to tell the past or future who we are, or who we hope to be."

https://finishinglinepress.com/product_reviews_info.php?products_id=1990&reviews_id=661

Williamson's sweet husk Available for Purchase

Great news from poetry alum Corrie Williamson (2014). Corrie's first book, sweet husk, winner of the 2014 Perugia Press Prize, is now available for purchase! In praising the book, Gregory Orr writes: "Corrie Williamson is multiple in her identities: anthropologist of the imagination, archaeologist of the heart, naturalist observing the world with acuity and praising it with dense music." Congratulations, Corrie!

http://www.perugiapress.com/books/bookpage.php?year=2014&pagetype=reviews

Nawrocki Publishes Collection of Poetry

2001 alum Amy Nawrocki's new book of poems, Four Blue Eggs, was a 2013 finalist in the Homebound Publications Poetry Prize and has just been published by Homebound Publications. In praising the book, Lisa Schwartz writes, "Like Whitman, Amy Nawrocki gracefully extols the beauty of nature while subtly lamenting our detachment from it. Her elegant writing lends transcendence to our everyday world." 

http://homeboundpublications.com/a-first-look-at-four-blue-eggs-by-amy-nawrocki/

Honum's The Tulip-Flame Reviewed in Los Angeles Review of Books

Check out Catherine Pond's glowing and perceptive review of Chloe Honum's The Tulip-Flame in the Los Angeles Review of Books.

https://lareviewofbooks.org/review/trauma-beauty

Blunschi Named 2014 Lambda Fellow

We were thrilled to learn this morning that our own Jane Blunschi has been chosen as a 2014 Lambda Writers Retreat Fellow. She'll spend a week in Los Angeles this August working on her fiction with faculty member Lucy Jane Bledsoe. Way to go, Jane!

http://www.lambdaliterary.org/writers-retreat/2014-writers-retreat-fellows/

Two New Books From Randolph Thomas

Multi-talented alum Randolph Thomas (1993) has two books forthcoming. His poetry collection, The Course of the Telling, has won the Gerald Cable Book Award from Silverfish Review Press (Feb. 2015) and his book of short stories, Dispensations, will be published in October on New Rivers Press.

http://newriverspress.blogspot.com/2013/10/many-voices-project-prizewinners-for.html

Eszter Takacs Wins Cargill Prize

Third-year poet Eszter Takacs joins the very small group of students who have published first books while still enrolled in our program. The Miraculous Hysterical, her first collection of poetry, has won the 2014 Cargill Prize from Coconut Books! Congratulations, Eszter!

https://www.facebook.com/CoconutPoetry?filter=2

Kaj Tanaka Selected for Wigleaf's Top 50 (Very) Short Fictions

More good news this morning from our recent fiction graduates: Kaj Tanaka's story, "Dolly Parton" (originally published in Pank) has been selected by Erin Fitzgerald and Ben Loory for Wigleaf's Top 50 (Very) Short Fiction list of 2014. Congratulations, Kaj!

http://wigleaf.com/

John Englehardt Wins Wabash Prize

Some fantastic news this morning from 2014 graduate John Englehardt: his short story "Flotsam" has won the Wabash Prize for Fiction. Judge Rebecca Makkai calls John's writing "surefooted and organic." John will receive $1000 and "Flotsam" will appear in the next issue of Sycamore Review.

Way to go, John!

 http://www.sycamorereview.com/2014/06/presenting-the-winners-of-the-2014-wabash-prize-for-fiction/

Anne Greeott wins Fulbright

We're so proud of second-year translation student Anne Greeot for winning a 2014 Fulbright Fellowship to study in Italy. Congratulations, Anne!

http://newswire.uark.edu/articles/24429/translation-student-named-fulbright-fellow-to-italy

Longmire premieres tonight

Don't forget to check out the work of program alum Tony Tost in Longmire. Season 3 premieres tonight on A&E.