Takacs in Phoebe and more

You can find Eszter Takacs' new poems in Phoebe Journal (issue 42.1 spring 2013), as well as Full of Crow, Anemone Sidecar (chapter 20), and Utter Magazine (issue 2). She was also featured on As It Ought To Be: Saturday PoetrySeries blog.

 

 

Shores-Argüello's First Book

Jacob Shores-Argüello first book, In the Absence of Clocks, winner of Crab Orchard Review and selected by Yusef Komunyakaa, is now available at bookstores. You can read the poem, "On the Holiday for the Dead" from the book on the Poetry Daily page.

Davis McCombs Named 2013 Laman Library Writers Fellow

The William F. Laman Public Library System in Little Rock has awarded Davis McCombs, director of our program, its 2013 Laman Library Writers Fellowship! 

Each year, this fellowship provides a grant of up to $10,000 to an Arkansas author to support the work of writing and publishing. Previous fellows are Kevin Brockmeier, adult novelist and children’s author; Grif Stockley, author of six legal novels and several non-fiction books on race relations in Arkansas; and Mara Leveritt, true crime journalist and author.

McCombs is the author of the collections Ultima Thule, which won the 1999 Yale Younger Poets prize, and Dismal Rock. 

Englehardt Wins The Stranger's Fiction Contest

John Englehardt's story "Gingrich" won The Stranger's winter fiction contest, judged by Sherman Alexie and Rebecca Brown, and was published in December 2012.

Local Poet Fest

A short reading by local poets Kaveh Bassiri, J. Camp Brown, Rachel Burrows, Joshua Dickens, Laura Gray, Pam Hitchcock, and Eszter Takacs at Nightbird Books (205 West Dickson Street, Fayetteville, AR) Saturday, Jan 26, 2013.

Penkov Wins BBC International Short Story Award

Congratulations to MFA alumnus Miroslav Penkov (2009), whose short story "East of the West" (from his collection by the same title) has won the 2012 BBC International Short Story Award! This marked the first year that judges opened the competition to authors outside of the United Kingdom, and Miro's story was chosen from a distinguished list of international authors.

Heil in print issue of Gigantic

"The Document," an excerpt from Kathleen Heil's recently completed first novel, You Disappoint Me, will be published in the upcoming print issue of Gigantic, slated for publication in late 2012.